artie
Aquarium Advice Newbie
been battling cyno for a year or more. have used some First Aid brand cyno killer. knocks most out, but comes back in couple weeks. already cut down on my feeding, little flake every 2 or 3 days instead of brine everyday. attinic lights 4 to 10 pm, cpf's 6 to 9:30pm with a small fluorescent a few hours before and after to simulate day cycle. new crushed coral a month ago at the same time as 50% water change, cleaning both wet-dry and canister filters. nitrasorb in canister,and phos-complete in wet-dry over flow from protien skimmer section, cleaned all filter media, pulled out all 80 lbs of live rock and scrubbed it in a bucket of fresh saltwater. a treatment of the cyno killer, a 20% water change and within 1 1/2 weeks started seeing blooms. thinking about hanging it up and going fresh. have a friend with 125 tank, up for 2 years, uses well water, has never done a water change and hes never had a problem and has beautiful tank with lots of coralmine algae and and lots of nice specimans. have been thinking about pulling all live rock out and re- cureing if thats possible, cleaning everything again including crushed coral and basicly starting over. any ideas??