This is a 29 gallon reef tank. A little history on it: I have always had a red
cyanobacteria problem, at least that's what I believe it is but I've included a picture in case I'm way off. Okay, back in January 2007, I live where that huge blizzard hit and we lost power for about a week. No electricity, 8' to 13' snow drifts outside, the top of the car is visible but you're so not going anywhere, I'm dreaming of a white Christmas major overkill type stuff. So my 29 gallon drops to around 40º I think it was. My purple mushrooms disentigrated. My yellow tang and the other fish... pop cycles. Pretty much everything I had died. I left the tank in a suspended-in-time state out of depression until now. So for about 10 months, I've run the Coralife Power Compact on the same schedule as I did before. Protein
Skimmer has been going, Emperor Filter going... So all the copepods, amphipods, bristle worms, my Queen Conch (whew), lots of Caulerpa nummularia, and other stuff has survived and has done well. Oh, and I bought a $2500 whole house generator for this winter so HA HA not doing it again !
My PROBLEM, and this is driving me nuts, this stupid red
cyanobacteria is still growing !!! I have not put food in the tank for 10 months.
Nitrate tests at nonexistent. Protein
skimmer not skimming much of anything like it does when I feed fish on a regular basis. All water is
RO/DI testing at 0
ppm out of the
DI. What is the
cyanobacteria living off of and how do I get rid of it !?!?!? Please help !!!
