I had a FS treat my show tank 330 with
copper. It was
FO with inverts. After the treatment all hell broke loose in terms of alage. No inverts and maybe dead live sand the pea green
cyano took over. The sand and artificial reef were so badly coated the 400 watt lights looked like 15 watt lighting. The green stuff was so agressive that as soon as the sand was cleared it would come back in hours.
The
copper level was still too high for inverts after 6 months and the algae problem was not getting better.
All I did was purchase some cuprisorb to remove the
copper. The tank basically fixed itself after that. The algae is gone and without inverts.
How can this be? Its like it dissolved and just fell off the reef. The tank looks super bright and the sand is white again. The only thing we changed was removing the
copper with cuprisorb.
Can anyone explain? The tank is looking better and better by the day. How did the removal of the
copper get rid of the
cyano and other ugly algae that fast?
Before I put it in there the tank was getting out of hand. The maintenance guy said he had never seen one with such aggressive algae.
I had some people tell me that without the inverts the cleanup crew was gone and the algae or
cyano would take over. Well I don't have my inverts back in and the algae is gone. I am happy but puzzled.
