Keep up the water changes like that, and your whisper filter will do just fine. You’re doing better than most of us with that WC schedule 
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Keep up the water changes like that, and your whisper filter will do just fine. You’re doing better than most of us with that WC schedule :D[/quote]
Well, to be honest, that’s the schedule NOW. Before, I might have done one once every other month or so, but the parameters were good and everyone was happy. I was lucky, I know.
IMO, I don’t like to use chems in my tank. The chemi clean will make the cyano go away, but it will come back. The real problem hasn’t been addressed and that is why you have cyano in the first place. Doing REGULAR and FREQUENT wc’s will definitely help to reduce the cyano build up. Also try cutting down on the amount of food at each feeding. If the substance on the rocks blows off, it will only make it spread more.
Also noticed that you have only 1 power head in your tank, a second PH would help move the water around some and create less dead spots.
+1 to what houndsbayman says. Best case scenaria right there. Me, I like to kill it with science all while starting to implement everything mentioned so it doesn’t return.
I have gone back a forth about a second powerhead, I even have a Korilla still in the box. The filter seems to move quite a bit of water and wasn’t sure if that was enough flow for that end of the tank. I will try and get that second one in there ASAP, I need a power cord for it.
Welcome to the club and the boards. Tank does look great and I love the Red Dragonette.
I’ll go back and touch on the satanic blood thirsty she-devils from your first post. I have had a tomato clown for about 6 years. She’s an absolute terror. She’s not only drawn blood on many occasions, but has also bitten through a rubber bracelet I wear. She’ll aim for the webbing between my fingers, or the soft underside of my forearm - while the kids find it hysterical, she hurts like hell. I don’t have to be anywhere remotely close to her anemone, she’ll attack me clear on the other side of the tank - and forget about trying to keep other clownfish in the tank.
More flwo will help in keeping cyano from growing, but it’s important to get out what you currently have, either by siphoning it out while doing a water change, or by checmical means. If you’re not running a skimmer, plan on several 20% water changes afterwards. If you’re running a skimmer - DON’T WALK AWAY FROM IT when you turn it back on.
To kill coraline algae, remove the rock from the water for a few minutes, the zoas will be fine, by the coraling doens’t like air, it also doesn’t like bright lighting.
The vermitid snails are just a mess, go ahad and pick them off, I know they serve a purpose and are animals but they just make a tank look dirty when they extensd their webs for fishing.
On removing the cyano…there isnt any one the sand bed and the redish/purple stuff on the rocks is pretty well attached so I can’t siphon it out. Maybe it’s not cyano?
I spent 30 minutes last night trying to get the tomatoes out to put in the QT. I think Im going to have to break down the aquascaping to get them out #@$^
If it does not come off easy then it is not Cyano it may be an encrusting sponge. I have one that looks simular to that but luckily it is on a small piece of rock that is seperated from all other rockwork. But it can surround a zoa and keep it from multiplying.
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If it does not come off easy then it is not Cyano it may be an encrusting sponge. I have one that looks simular to that but luckily it is on a small piece of rock that is seperated from all other rockwork. But it can surround a zoa and keep it from multiplying.[/quote]
do I pick it off?
You can, or you can just lift the rock out of the tank and expose it to air. If it’s sponge that should be enough to kill it, if it’s coraline, that should be enough to kill it, if it’s cyano that MAY be enough to kill it.
The zoas will be ok for a much longer period of time out of water than you’d expect.
The problem is if it is sponge and you’re remedy is picking it off, you’re not going to get it all and it will grow back. You really need to reach in to the tank and touch it to figure out what it may be.
More of us have broken down tanks to remove fish than we like to admit.
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On removing the cyano…there isnt any one the sand bed and the redish/purple stuff on the rocks is pretty well attached so I can’t siphon it out. Maybe it’s not cyano?
I spent 30 minutes last night trying to get the tomatoes out to put in the QT. I think Im going to have to break down the aquascaping to get them out #@$^[/quote]
When i caught my fish out of my 220, i had storage tubs laying around that i drained the tank down to the bottom so the fish had no open water to swim in, caught them, filled tank back up. About the fastest I’ve every caught a fish.
Good luck, you got this :
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ok, I will take it out of the water tonight and see how things go. How long should I leave it out 5-10 minutes?
Here is how happy it was a few years ago…
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When i caught my fish out of my 220, i had storage tubs laying around that i drained the tank down to the bottom so the fish had no open water to swim in, caught them, filled tank back up. About the fastest I’ve every caught a fish.
Good luck, you got this ::[/quote]
That’s how I got them out for the move, I figured the less water the easier to catch! Thanks for the vote of confidence!
Update. …feels like velvet, very soft. Have it out of the tank now.
red feels like velvet and does not come off easy sounds like red turf algae. IME one of the harder algae to get rid of.
Is that algae bad? I also have some that’s red and feels like velvet
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Is that algae bad? I also have some that’s red and feels like velvet[/quote]
It will over take the tank if the condition right for them. I think it’s red red turf algae as well, as Hudzon said.
Karen, that what I ask you during your tank tour when you show the picture of that red patch and i ask you if that was red algae or what is it. I believe it the same thing.
A, I remember you asking thats why when this was posted it got me thinking. I wasnt sure how to explain it to you. I thought it was just part of the good algae! But when it was said that hers felt like velvet I felt mine and it feels like velvet as well.
My question is what is the best way to get rid of it.?
I’m with nerak, what now?
This is what I did. It might not be ideal for others. I took the affected rock out and scrubbed it with a toothbrush. If it has animal on it I just scrub around it. Basically rodi water dip/scrub. After that I did water change and continue with water parameter test. Of course there something in the water that is high and that’s why that stuff is growing. Usually high nitrate or phosphate. Hope this helps