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Unread 05/09/2009, 05:42 AM   #255
HighlandReefer
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sana,

Good to hear your results. Hopefully your pest does not come back.

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pIankton,

I'm happy the AlgaeFix worked on your algae pest.

Personally, I don't see cyano as a side effect of using AlgaeFix. Instead I see the situation as the cyano was always there, but the algae pest was able to out compete the cyano given the conditions. I see pictures of cyano mixed with algae quite frequently throughout the Internet. Once your algae was eradicated/controlled, then the conditions were right for the cyano to take over at that point.

Unfortunately, it does not appear that AlgaeFix works very well on the red cyano. I have what I believe is a blue-green cyano and the AlgaeFix works well on it.

This current thread goes into more detail regarding problems in trying to control cyanobacteria.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...readid=1633411


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