I have quite a lot of cyano at the moment. It is all over the rocks etc and is starting to grow on the corals as well. I have read that a 3 day blackout can be used to get rid of it since the bacteria does not get any light to photosynthesize. Would the corals be ok with this? I have mainly mushrooms, zoas, a picushion, frogspawn, ancora coral, plate and doughnut coral. Only have 1 SPS in there, its a green slimer.
I dont want to go the chemical route so i want to start with this first. Will skim wet during this period to get rid of the bacteria as they die. I will be doing a 25% water change before and then after as well.
What do you guys think? Could this work and will the corals be ok? I want to do a total blackout with black sheeting.
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Blackout to combat cyano?
Posted: January 16th, 2011, 1:32pm CST by mariusmeyer