i think i am doing a good job on maintance. Water changes every 3 weeks, usuallly 20-30% with RO water. My water checks out good always, but still it just wont go away. I agree, i dont want to add chemicals to treat, because i believe it will just come back later. I need to find the source of it! Is the time PC bulbs go bad when you first start them? Or is it once you have them up in constant use? Because ive had my satelite fixture for about 8 months now, and ive turned it on back than to see if it worked. Could this be my cause of cyano? the bulbs might be old and giving off red? Ive treated once with EM tablets. Never killed it just turned it grayish, whitish, and grew back once treatment stopped after a week. I think the em tablets did kill off some of my biological bacteria because had a huge ammonia spike after treatment and had to do large water changes to get back down. Im syphoning it out about every 2 days now, because if dont you cant even tell i have rocks that are brown! And my sand bed is black! im loosing hope on beating it. The only thing i havent tried is different chemicals to kill it. Which i dont really want to do because i want to find the source of it. But im about to try some type of chemicals because im embarresed to even look at my tank. They critters i got in it also are:
2 percula clowns
1 sebae amenome
1 algae blenny
1 serpant starfish
1 emerald crab
8-10 Astra snails
2- turbos
2- red legged hermits
corals:
pulsing xenia (dieing, i think due to the nasty starfish hitchhiker i had that is known to eat them)
waving hand xenia i think its called?
stripped mushroom
toadstool
finger leather
green star polyps
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