I have been having a cyano issue in my 58g for the past six months or so (it is a bare-bottom tank). As an overall, the tank has been getting a little less attention than it should since the 120g has been up and running.
So since I had a cyano and bryopsis aka hair algae issue in the 120g and the chemi-clean worked so well in it (well, the cyano and hair algae went away but now I have diatoms on the sand). Well...I decided that the 58g would be a breeze - that's where I went wrong.
I dosed the tank - the next day when I came home from work all the snails were belly up - that's not good. The flame angel and the male anthias went belly-up as well. Thankfully my pair of clowns were okay as were the pair of Bangaii or so I thought.
Crap....I did a seven gallon water change immediately and called it a night.
I come home tonight and my Bangaii pair are dead...AAuggghhhhhh.
I decided to say "screw it" and caught the remaining pair of clowns out of the tank and place them in my 120g's 50g sump.
So here I am now at a crossroad of what to do with this 58g. It also has valonia, hair algae, cyano, and aipstasia. I'm tempted to just tear the whole thing down and sell it, but the intention was always to use it as a frag tank or fish only tank.
To compound matters the baby hippo tangs went missing in my 120g from the weekend.
What a lousy crappy year it has been for me!
Okay - done venting now.
So since I had a cyano and bryopsis aka hair algae issue in the 120g and the chemi-clean worked so well in it (well, the cyano and hair algae went away but now I have diatoms on the sand). Well...I decided that the 58g would be a breeze - that's where I went wrong.
I dosed the tank - the next day when I came home from work all the snails were belly up - that's not good. The flame angel and the male anthias went belly-up as well. Thankfully my pair of clowns were okay as were the pair of Bangaii or so I thought.
Crap....I did a seven gallon water change immediately and called it a night.
I come home tonight and my Bangaii pair are dead...AAuggghhhhhh.
I decided to say "screw it" and caught the remaining pair of clowns out of the tank and place them in my 120g's 50g sump.
So here I am now at a crossroad of what to do with this 58g. It also has valonia, hair algae, cyano, and aipstasia. I'm tempted to just tear the whole thing down and sell it, but the intention was always to use it as a frag tank or fish only tank.
To compound matters the baby hippo tangs went missing in my 120g from the weekend.
What a lousy crappy year it has been for me!
Okay - done venting now.