Evilbass
Aquarium Advice Activist
First off, hello again! I know I have been MIA, but the summer months are the season for the industry I am in. so its been a little bit of a crazy summer... Good news is, as kids head back to school, my job starts to slow down!
anyhow, I was on vacation in July and when i returned home after about 6 days, I had a small Cyano out break. I vacuumed all of it out, and continued doing my normal 3 - 4 gallon water change on my 30 gallon tank. Now, a month later, I have noticed that I'm having another out break, but this one seems to be a bit more rapid.
I have done some reading, and noticed that everyone has been saying that the lead cause of it, is sand being movement. Well, I do have a pistol shrimp that has ADHD, and seems to moved all of my sand weekly! along with the watchmen goby, I can count on them to re arrange everything around my Live Rock.
Anywho, I had read a while back that canister filters are a HUGE nitrate/nitrite factory. I do have an Eheim canister filter, as well as a Moray Protein Skimmer. I have started to only let it run about 8 hours a day, along with my lights. Hoping this would slow the outbreak down. However, it has not. I have not vacuumed it out yet. I feed pellets (every other day) to my 2 clown fish, goby, pistol shrimp, blood shrimp and coral beauty.
Aside from the above information, is this something I should just learn to live with since the shrimp stirs up my sand all of the time?? I know a few people talk about CUC's, and I have thought about getting one, However, I'm worried that if the snails die, and I can find them, it'll kill off the rest of my tank!
input?? Thanks guys and gals!
anyhow, I was on vacation in July and when i returned home after about 6 days, I had a small Cyano out break. I vacuumed all of it out, and continued doing my normal 3 - 4 gallon water change on my 30 gallon tank. Now, a month later, I have noticed that I'm having another out break, but this one seems to be a bit more rapid.
I have done some reading, and noticed that everyone has been saying that the lead cause of it, is sand being movement. Well, I do have a pistol shrimp that has ADHD, and seems to moved all of my sand weekly! along with the watchmen goby, I can count on them to re arrange everything around my Live Rock.
Anywho, I had read a while back that canister filters are a HUGE nitrate/nitrite factory. I do have an Eheim canister filter, as well as a Moray Protein Skimmer. I have started to only let it run about 8 hours a day, along with my lights. Hoping this would slow the outbreak down. However, it has not. I have not vacuumed it out yet. I feed pellets (every other day) to my 2 clown fish, goby, pistol shrimp, blood shrimp and coral beauty.
Aside from the above information, is this something I should just learn to live with since the shrimp stirs up my sand all of the time?? I know a few people talk about CUC's, and I have thought about getting one, However, I'm worried that if the snails die, and I can find them, it'll kill off the rest of my tank!
input?? Thanks guys and gals!