NEW Seachem PhosGuard

[knightnsd]

anyone runnig this product? I am fighting a ton of cyano suddenly and looking for some options besides more water changes. I am running the little fishies 550 with GFO on my 300 and don't have that many fish in my 300 but the skimmer blew up this weekend so a smaller pump- sedra 3500 is powering my euroreef skimmer till a new sedra 5000 needle wheel arrives. I was struggling with cyano before the skimmer pump went out but on a smaller basis but this crap grows overnight, well I should say during the daylight anyway.

[Duke4130]

Edward, cyano isn't necessarily from phosphates. It is from excess nutients in the system... All newer systems go through it....manually remove as much as you can and cut your lighting schedule down... Dose microbarcter7 at full dosage for 5 days. It will eventually go away

[knightnsd]

thank you, I will try that system is not that new, I dumped my old 170 into the 300 gallon and lately this has come on. Thanks I'll try this before the cyano treatment that seems harder on corals

[Duke4130]

thank you, I will try that system is not that new, I dumped my old 170 into the 300 gallon and lately this has come on. Thanks I'll try this before the cyano treatment that seems harder on corals

Its new enough..... I still get cyano outbreaks once in a while. Another thing to check that I forgot to tell you about is flow. Make sure your tank has enough flow going through it, Cyano normally starts to form where there is not much water movement.

[h20poloman]

when I moved to biopellets I had a pretty large cyano outbreak. I treated with red slime remover, did a large water change and siphoned out as much as possible. I cut back my how much and how I was feeding (used to just thaw and dump the cup into the tank) and haven't had any issues with it since. I think I reduced my light cycle possibly by 1 hour as well. I didn't have any adverse effects from the red slime remover, just follow the instructions.