Cyano and Chemical's

What is the down side to using chemical's to stop cyano?
What is the best agent to use and what are the side affect's of using it if any?
I am new and learning thank you for your time.....

 

I have used that RedSlime Remover in the past on my other tanks. It worked really worked well. It says it is safe for all inverts, corals and fish...however I treated my seahorse tank and removed the seahorses out to be safe. You do have to do a 20% water change in a couple days (Cant remember exact amount)

Honestly what I have found to be the best and safest is to turn your lights off for 3-5 days. Completely off. I had a combo of cyano and dino and by turning lights off for 5 days and bumping my pH to 8.4 it has been over 2 weeks and no sign of either. I still have my MH only on for 5 hours and my T5 for about 8

I have sps and clams in my tank and everything did fine (of course you have to reaclimate them to light)

 

There are two types of chemicals to remove red slime. One is an antibiotic. It will kill off the red slime, but leave all the nutrients that it was using in the tank, so if you do not solve the problem, it will come back even worse after the antibiotic is gone. The second main type is an oxidizer. It will oxidize the extra organics in the water removing them from the system. This type will still allow the cyano to come back, but it will take quite a while until the nutrients build up again.


The best thing to do , is to figure out what is allowing the build up of nutrients and working on that problem, but if you can't the oxidizer types are better to use than the anti-biotic types.

Kim

 

chemi-clear

http://www.3reef.com/forums/water-chemistry/chemi-clean-safe-32678-2.html

RIP john o

 

I like the lights idea best. Remember when you put chemicals IN your DT, they STAY in your DT. The chemicals can contain "natural" ingredients like copper which will over time are toxic to inverts.
1. consider a fuge with the crappiest 6500k CFL and chaeto you can find.
2. consider cooler 14k-20k lights
3. cut down on the lighting for your DT. The chaeto will starve the cyano.
3. cut some of your chaeto off and give it to a friend with a reef and put it in their fuge

Chaeto, is there anything it can't do?

Remember Algae likes warm light, so colder light reduces algae. Also you can cheat, give your beneficial Algae in your Fuge that good red CFL light and watch it grow, then starve the tank for red light.

 

I just bought this from this site www.aquariumguys.com FIrst time with them but it went through paypal so its probably a reputable site...thnx for the info..