Dealing with lyngbya

[Darkxerox]

I got rid of it using Justin Credible's Hydrogen peroxide treatment.

Just to clarify Gresh, was this systemic dosing or just dipping? I'm trying to find the protocol but no luck.

 

[BAYMAC]

Just to clarify Gresh, was this systemic dosing or just dipping? I'm trying to find the protocol but no luck.

whole tank

I can't find it either. I'll DM Justin.

 

[JVU]

Just to clarify Gresh, was this systemic dosing or just dipping? I'm trying to find the protocol but no luck.

Any Questions about Peroxide dosing or dipping?

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[Darkxerox]

Any Questions about Peroxide dosing or dipping?

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Sweet thanks John. Starting his routine today.

 

[Darkxerox]

For others since reefs.org seems to be down:

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Assuming a stocked sps tank (that tolerate H2O2 poorly):

Amounts are for 3% strength peroxide.
Week 1: 1ml per 30 gallons per day
Week 2: 1 ml per 20 gallons per day
Week 3: 1 ml per 10 gallons per day
Week 4: 1 ml per 8 gallons per day
Week 5: 1 ml per 5 gallons per day

My note: hydrogen peroxide decays pretty quickly. You'll probably want a fresh container.

 

[MichaelB]

Is it possible for you to get a close up picture of the stuff ?

I added 2 urchins so far they haven't touched the stuff. Fish ignore it. It's also been 2 full weeks and no effect at all using reef flux.
No thining or change in color as previous times I've used it.

 

[Darkxerox]

Is it possible for you to get a close up picture of the stuff ?

I added 2 urchins so far they haven't touched the stuff. Fish ignore it. It's also been 2 full weeks and no effect at all using reef flux.
No thining or change in color as previous times I've used it.

Fluconazole likely won't work from what I've read and experienced since it's not macroalgae, it's cyanobacteria. I tried to get some pictures but my glass isn't the cleanest:

Again no holdfast really, comes off with a toothbrush.

 

[JVU]

The electric Rubbermaid scrubber we were talking about works well on stuff like that too

 

[Kronic Reefer]

Whats the status? Did you find the H202 to be a success? ...asking for a friend @Darkxerox

 

[MichaelB]

Any thoughts on a strong dose of chemiclean?

Been waiting 2 weeks for a box of flux rx.

Appropriately sized for my 240 gallon system.


Than freaking yesterday they refunded me. So basically been waiting 2 weeks for nothing.

The price came out cheaper than trying to buy like 5 smaller bottles of reef flux and playing a with the dumb pill capsules.

I strongly believe without 100% certainty that my tank is battling this same crap.

I have 3 more wrasses to catch to put in qt.

Than I won't have to worry about fish only coral and inverts if this crap releases toxins or whatever during trying to treat it.

The alage spin brush thingy works 70% efficiently. But it only cause this stuff to release into the water column. I net out much as possible. But anything missed just settles elsewhere and grows faster. So far not fooling with it at all seems to be the only way to some what not make it spread and grow even faster. Since taking that approach 3 weeks ago it's kinda staying the same by not getting worse nor getting better.

 

[PjFish]

Just zip tie the brush scrubber head near the end of a syphon hose then toss the other end in a sock pinned down in sump. Can clean as long as you want. Just keep the hose diameter an inch or smaller or just intermittently turn return pump off and on. Man that stuff looks like Sasquatch hair!

 

[derek_SR]

This is giving me flashbacks to my first tank. Was never able to beat it. I don't think it's the lyngbya itself that's the issue, it's the symptom of some other broad bacterial imbalance. Are your corals doing OK still @Darkxerox ?

 

[Darkxerox]

Peroxide seems to be slowing it, corals and clams seem fine at the week two dosing level.

@MichaelB like I said in the earlier post, fluc and Chemiclean didn't do much of anything. Don't waste your money unless you're trying to specifically target bryopsis and red cyano. Try that marineland polishing filter that Rich and Ben love or a pump with poly filter wrapped around it.

The big toothbrush scrub cleaning I did helped, but it's still hanging on in certain spots. We'll see how it looks after the next two weeks.

 

[Royce023]

Someone from R2R used silicate dosing to help with lyngbya.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/silicate-dosing-for-reef-tanks.1129689/

 

[MichaelB]

I've been dosing peroxide since last week peroxide the link Thomas posted. In my nem tank 32 gallons and 210 gallon (240 gallon system)

So far i see slight improvement in my nem tank nothing drastic at all.

In the 210gallon tank. I see a explosion in the population of pods and dove snails. Granted this is after removing fish to qt.

Since dosing the peroxide I'm starting to see some of the rocks turning green and a few spots of coralline starting to form.

Become beyond this annoying cyano stuff I've never seen any other types of alage in the tank not even diatoms or hair alage. The only mild exception is a few specks of bubble alage personally introduced from corals moved from a tank I broke down.

This stuff is really annoying if I haven't made that clear.

 

[MichaelB]

2.5 weeks of dosing peroxide. I also added microbacter clean. No results. Looks like the stuff is getting worse in the 210 (no fish so not really feeding the tank beyond a few pellets for the hermits) This stuff also seems to be not be not improving in the nem tank either. Nems are looking semi unhappy and have shrunken in size.

Getting more annoyed.

 

[Royce023]

2.5 weeks of dosing peroxide. I also added microbacter clean. No results. Looks like the stuff is getting worse in the 210 (no fish so not really feeding the tank beyond a few pellets for the hermits) This stuff also seems to be not be not improving in the nem tank either. Nems are looking semi unhappy and have shrunken in size.

Getting more annoyed.

I would try to dose silicates to have your diatoms explode. It might do something.

 

[MichaelB]

I would try to dose silicates to have your diatoms explode. It might do something.

Nervous to. Yet I might consider it. Has anyone else attempted this here?

 

[PjFish]

Nervous to. Yet I might consider it. Has anyone else attempted this here?

Apparently so and worked clearing lyngbya interesting!!

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/silicate-dosing-for-reef-tanks.1129689/

 

[Turkeysammich]

Nervous to. Yet I might consider it. Has anyone else attempted this here?

I’ve done silicate dosing before. About 2-3 years ago. I wrote something up on here about it. Anyways. This is what I can tell you. I wasn’t getting the hair algae thing that you got. I was getting something that looked like Dino’s. So I went to Mack’s Dino’s page on fb. I swear up and down that I had Dino’s. So I started dosing silicates. You dose a lot of it. Since what I had looked just like Dino. So after dosing a lot of silicates. Sure enough I got diatoms. Well everyone on Mack’s was like you need a microscope, you need a microscope. Well I finally went and got a microscope. Guess what ? No dinos. I had silicates. And I was dosing more silicates. My ro/di filters were old and letting silicates thru. Daymn. Right ??? After changing the ro/di filter and hella wcs. The dino looking things were gone. So what’s the moral of the story ? Look under a microscope to see what you really have before dosing stuff to fix stuff that your not 100% sure you got. I still think that after you add in all your tangs and algae eaters. It will slowly go away. That’s what’s happening in my aquarium as we speak.