The stuff works fantastic but getting it out of out of your tank is another issue I've done three water changes and my skimmer is still overflowing I've added carbon to the system I don't know this stuff is going to take awhile to go get out of the tank
24hrs, 48hrs, then 36hrs later? 36hrs is less than 48hrs so I’m confused. Did you mean 72hrs or 36hrs after the 48hr mark? Thanks in advance for clarifying!
I have been dealing with green powdery algae on my sandbed for months after treating for bryopsis. I was siphoning it off but losing a lot of baby ceriths and spaghetti worms in the process. My tank is well established 2 years mixed reef. You have given me a little more confidence in giving this a try. My main concern is the 55 adult flower anemones and 40+ babies. Have you ever heard of an adverse effect on anemones?
I know this is a very old video but I’m dealing with Cyano and I’m wondering do you still recommend it today for a treatment or is there other effective ways to get rid of it ?
Chemiclean is the quick fix. There is alternatives from Other brands or a slower fix approach from Zeovit that’s more bacteria based Long term make sure nutrients are in balance so it doesn’t come back
Trying it today to see how well it works. Thanks for the vid it helped me go ahead and pull the trigger. Hopefully I get that beautiful white sand back like you did.
Its worth it.. my sandbed is pristine again!. no negative impact (Do not skip the water change after!) ... i honestly don't know why i resisted doing it for the past 6 months haha
Just used this this weekend. 7 scoops for my 75 gallon tank (279L excluding rock and sand). All the red slime was gone in less than 48hours. Went from thick mats to nothing. None of my fish or inverts died. Just increased my flow. I don't have a skimmer on my tank.
I've done everything possible aside from completely starting over and I finally said to heck with it - I am going this route. I am like you - no skimmer, but I bought an air pump and air stone, on top of turning my flow on high. Here's to high hopes. It's only a 10g nano so here we go.
i have a 180 with 5 very aggressive eatting triggers and wrasse mix, cyano is insane!!!!!!! bought this stuff on amazon and followed instructions EXACTLY 48 hours later its ALL GONE. I had this crazy deep RED slime cyano, tons of frags in the tank too, all looked like nothing happened.
also I'm a little confused, when you waited 2 days it was 48 hours, but did you wait an additional day for a total of 72 hours? You said day 3 is 36 hours which is confusing...
I have a huge problem! The cyano came in on zoas frags lots of them over 30! One thing is I am scared to add to zoas that are already starting to loose polyps and I am not sure how its going to do its job when my sand bed is literally filled with zoas acclimating everywhere? I just found out that my lights have been running 15 hours a day! Only about a week but i now have gha growing in the polyps as well! These are all high end zoas and spent like 3 k plus I have high end blastos and rainbow chalices coming in! I have a frag tank just finished cycling a few weeks ago and was hoping to move these in there but now I cant with cyano all over the plugs and gha all in the polyps! Also noone else says to remove gfo! The directions say remove carbon and chemipure! I know chemipure has gfo but it also has carbon so I dont know if they say to remove it because of the carbon. My gfo is in my filter sock in one tank and the aio chamber in another! It took a while to dial it in at 0.03 and I am scared it will skyrocket which will be bad for my arriving corals, plus my new zoas that are already in bad shape now and losing polyps! Is it safe to set the wet gfo inside a sealed container and then put it back or will mold grow on it? True mess on my hands here and a lot of money at stake! I would love to get my hands on the person that sent me cyano filled plugs of zoas! LOL Will chemiclean remove it from plugs? I am scared to replace the plugs because I could loose some zoas and might be like fragging them! HELP! LOL!
My syphon is from Imagitarium. The connector pump-pipe is too narrow so the water is not absorbed hard with shaking action for cleaning up the sand even though I have the large one. I like your syphon, please teach us to do it :-)
Honestly you should be concentrating on getting your levels back in check because that's what caused it to begin with. It's just going to come back without the issue addressed.
hi my 50 gallon tank is 6 months old and its started growing rusty red stringy stuff all over my sand bed and creeping up rocks.. can you help please... leeds UK..
I did so many water changes trying to get rid of cyano that I syphoned out half of my sand. I gave up and did the Chemiclean treatment and it worked great. So far, so good.
You know that you are dosing a highly active antibioticum and bring this in the Environment! It should only be used when no other conventional antibiotic helps and only by vets and doctors. Therefore its forbidden in Europe and I would never use it even in the case of a bad outbreak.
Hey dude not related to cyno but is the outter magnet that holds your gyre in the weir, i have been considering doing this but didnt know if it was safe to have submerged.
And there's my cue to order some chemi clean.....Hey Deven, what's good buddy! Just like you, I've been trying to get rid of cyano naturally over time. Also..... it's not working, 😔 so thanks for the kick up the butt I needed and for the in depth usage instructions. Great video as always. 👍👌
How long after was your skimmer still overflowing? I did this to my 50 gallon, did a 20 gallon water change, and my skimmer is still over flowing even 4-5 days after.
Great video, how long the product can last on the shelf ? I have Cyano Red and a (beautiful/ugly) Green pop, i want to go on the natural path but ... i should have a refugium with my nano >.
I tried the natural path for about 6 months and it would be gone for a week or two.. come back.. go away come back.. so i finally broke down and tried it :) There is no date on the bottle so i'm guessing its a long time. It comes in a liquid and powder form.
@@ReefDudes In my first reef tank 2 years old I went live sand live rock, Have all the pests but no Cyano. My second tank I went dry sand and dry rock. Went full cycle one year later red Cyano everywhere. depressing maybe the live method is safer I think the pest are more easy to deal with than this red Cyano lol
@@jerryebner7582 Chemiclean will get rid of your cyano. I let it go 3 days before a water change but otherwise stuck to the directions. Easy fix! Make sure there is no funky nutrient imbalance as the source of it.
Do you know if this affects algae in algae scrubbers? I run a simple yet very effective algae scrubber in my AIO sump. In fact I only run floss, skimmer and my scrubber and have near ULNS levels ano no algae in my display ever. BUT I do get cyano some days. Anything from barely noticeable to stringy other days. I wanted the all natural tank but I'm about to bite that same bullet as you. I just hate to lose my algae and battle algae till my scrubber gets back up to par.
I had some come in on frag plugs and now its everywhere and smothered out two corals already! I also just changed my gfo so I hate to throw it away. If I remove it from tank can I reuse it and How should i store it, maybe a sandwich bag or something? Its in a nuvo 20 nano AIO tank. I had a heck of a time getting my gfo right this time to get a 0.03 reading so hate to do that all over again, not to mention I used used up all my ultra grade gfo from BRS and I accidentally bought the cheap stuff the other day! UUUGGGHH! LOL Oh and should I remove polyfilter? I am so worried that I wont get this all in 3 days because I have new corals coming in and I heard if you dont get it all it can come back much stronger and difficult! Then I am a little worried to redo it with new frags coming in but I already had cyano kill a hammer and a frogspawn!
Back again going through the archives. I haven't noticed as much on my sand bed as I have on one of my neon green leather corals. Wasn't sure if there was something in particular I could do to just that coral to get it off or if I had to go the chemi clean route. The tank I'm moved my coral into for a transition period is only 14 gallons and am alittle worried when it comes to using certain chemicals because I know with less gallons, the bigger the issues can be if things go wrong
Mike Horan you can keep up on vacuuming your sand bed and make sure your nutrients no3/po4 are in check. You can possibly outcompete it but chemiclean is the quick fix :). (Use it then keep up on maintenance)
Thanks for the video Deven. Even though I usually take care of cyano issues naturally I just want to annihilate it at this point so I am going to do my first Chemiclean dosing ever. I am still trying to read up on it first to find out exactly what it is I am dosing.
We had red/purple cyano on our sand a while back that was driving me nuts so I dosed chemiclean strictly as per the instructions and was very happy with the results, but then noticed about a month later our purple coral was also now dying, the purple on the chalice bleached out yet the green on it remained, we had a purple leather that went white and died, and the purple on the favia bleached out while the green remained. They still haven't fully recovered. Make sure you keep a close eye on all your purple coral for any changes for a while.
ReefDudes I had treated my tank back in January and my video of it doesn't show the water change but I believe I would have done a 30 gallon water change on my 125 as that is the water capacity my bin holds. I don't run carbon on my system. If I did something wrong then you can be more confidant you won't have the same issues as me, and if I am in error then hopefully others reading this can avoid the same mistakes I made.
ReefDudes Sounds like good advice, there's nothing worse than losing corals that you've spent so much time watching grow. Hopefully I'll never need to use Chemiclean again but if I do I'll make sure I use carbon afterwards
I have been told to just leave the sand-bed alone unless you have a real outbreak of crud on it then peel it back with a plastic fork making piles of it with all power heads off and only syphon the crud out trying to leave the sand-bed alone as much as you can..
I had the same stuff spirulina algae I got loads of flow and low nutrients. I used chemiclean and it's been gone for 6 months now. It was high silicates in my case that was causing it.
Last time I used it, it did not make my skimmer go crazy. I wonder if they reformulated it. Still works fantastic just glad I didn’t have to dump skimmer 100x
Super fantastic video sir... Can I ask you something I have little bit of brown on my sands is that good are bad I do water change every 2 weeks 10 gallons on my Redsea 170 34gallons....
Its a blue throat/jaw trigger. Hes one of the more reef safe triggers and hes been issue free. the coral beauty likes to pick at (slowly destroy) my purple whip gorgonian though.. arrg.
Off topic - what's the mount that you're using for your lights if you don't mind my asking? I have a 180 Peninsula I'm looking for a similar solution. Hanging from the ceiling isn't an option.
Great video. I have a question. I have a 3000 gallon tank. Currently no corals, just fish and some inverts. I’m trying to do a no water change system. Currently facing cyano bacteria myself. If I dose the chemiclean, is it a must to do the water change? Won’t just skimming out the medication work?
I think I'm going to just turn my lights off for 4 days don't want to take a chance of losing any of my fish I've had for over a decade using chemicals
@@ReefDudes chemiclean does a very good job my sand bed is nice and clean my issue now since the treatment is over removing chemiclean is not so easy I have done a 30 gallon water change on my hundred gallon tank and also have added carbon to the system and I still am having a foam party in my sump how did you go about getting chemiclean out of your system and is your skimmer operating normal
@@ReefDudes I was just thinking how much I miss the the look of no lid, and then saw him move the surface of the water... yup. Keep the lid jp, keep the lid.
Just some quick advice if your alkalinity is in check you won't have a cyno problem ever most of these are a quick but temporary fix it will come back in a couple of days
What I mean bye in check means a stable parameter for a reef system and you might be dosing every 10 to 15 minutes but it might not be the sufficient amount for your growing reef you might have to adjust your doser . I am just speaking from experiences and the results that I have witnessed with my own eyes .
I’ve struggled with this forever, the rest of the tank is going great. Everything is growing like crazy. I always thought it was something I was doing wrong... ordered, trying this weekend! Thank you for the informative video. Your sandbed is LITERALLY what mine looks like right now. Finally, an answer!
@@ReefDudes Me too, I’m actually starting the process today! Love your channel, I really appreciate your videos especially your mechanical ability in making lots of things and sharing them with us. We are a lot alike, wish we could meet sometime but that’s how RU-vid works… Strangers in the night! Hahaha
@@ReefDudes thought I’d follow up - 36 hours later; and it worked! Sandbed is white again! Can’t thank you enough (and Melev!) for the info and your video. How did I not know this for the last two years? 🙄🙄
@@Dariusdoesreefing This absolutely works for me but I’ve had to use it multiple times as I continue to experience cyano. The product does absolutely work though!
