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I would start with the new light being on for 2 hours a day, 7 days later bump it up to 3, 7 days later bump it up to 4.....etc.
You can siphon the cyano off when you do water changes. If you have urchins they usually eat it. Chemical additives can be used but extremely cautiously when corals are present, especially sps. If you've never had it before, than I'd think reducing the photo period would be a good start and then siphon what you can off.
You can siphon the cyano off when you do water changes. If you have urchins they usually eat it. Chemical additives can be used but extremely cautiously when corals are present, especially sps. If you've never had it before, than I'd think reducing the photo period would be a good start and then siphon what you can off.
Just a heads up, when you say everything is good. It does not help us give suggestions. When something is going wrong you should always post calc, alk, mag, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and phosphate.
As for more flow, if you are low on fish funds, I recommend getting a jebao and if you have a good ammount, get yourself a vortec.
I have the ocean pulse duo Accela I thought they would have done the trick but I guess not. I just received my new rock I bought today and added it I also added a spare small power head and it seams to be doing better. I set the new led to 50% blue and 10% full spectrum. Would that chemiclean hurt any of my corals l, fish or invertebrates? I also added a small clam and would add marine snow every day would that have anything to do with it I added maybe a cap a day?
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That's not really true. Chemiclean is basically an antibiotic (Erythromycin) and the reason it kills off cyano is because that it is a bacteria. The problem with chemiclean and the reason I would caution anyone against using it and only after you have tried other solutions is it will decimate the rest of your bacteria and more then likely kick off a cycle in your tank as the bacteria fight to expand and start to compete again until they balance out.
In addition to this I personally have experienced an issue similar to yours when adding a 3rd led to my frag tank. Something about the spectrum from the LEDs coupled with high phosphate levels triggered it. I had slacked on changing my gfo causing the outbreak but what was really blowing my mind was how the stuff only popped up in the frag tank despite being plumbed into a much larger system with other tanks, not only that but it popped up directly under the LEDs and nowhere else. The fix for me was to change my gfo and I cut my red and green LEDs back.
Speaking to what Chemiclean is the box states that it is not erythromycin succinate however erythromycin sulfate or another erythromycin/antibiotic was found as an active ingredient. It has been banned in many European countries because of this as antibiotics can only be prescribed by a licensed physician there. Boyd's own refusal to list the ingredients is suspect to me and should be to every reefer. There have been many claims of both success and failure using Chemiclean but no sound science behind whether it was ever the reason for success only anecdotal stories. Aside from what Chemiclean is or isn't I believe you may have found the issue with high phosphates which can be remedied a number of ways without resorting to the use of snake oils that do more to separate you from your money than fix the actual underlying issues.
Speaking to what Chemiclean is the box states that it is not erythromycin succinate however erythromycin sulfate or another erythromycin/antibiotic was found as an active ingredient. It has been banned in many European countries because of this as antibiotics can only be prescribed by a licensed physician there. Boyd's own refusal to list the ingredients is suspect to me and should be to every reefer. There have been many claims of both success and failure using Chemiclean but no sound science behind whether it was ever the reason for success only anecdotal stories. Aside from what Chemiclean is or isn't I believe you may have found the issue with high phosphates which can be remedied a number of ways without resorting to the use of snake oils that do more to separate you from your money than fix the actual underlying issues.