#cyanobacteria

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WHAT: Winogradsky columns, initially and after 7 weeks WHEN: 2006 WHO: Tjmhay on Wikipedia

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Anybody have any great saltwater tips for getting rid of Cyanobacteria in retail tanks? I wish I could do a blackout for a couple days but unfortunately I’ll get yelled at.

I replaced all the sand in one tower, and it seems to have worked about 98%. We’ve got a new power head in our frag display tank, so there’s one live rock that has a dead spot that accumulates cyano every so often. As long as I pull the rock out to brush off the cyano things are chill.

I replaced all the sand in our 2nd tower and it straight up did not work at all. It’s back with a vengeance, we have to scrub and manually remove this shit with the net every day. The python is not strong enough to pick it up, it just transfers it around the tower.

We have “RO/DI” water and replaced the filter recently, however our phosphate level directly from the tap is hella high so obviously it’s not doing shit. And our phosphate level jumps every time we top off the tank or make new saltwater. We tried chemiclean as a last resort too, all it did was bubble over our skimmer, and emptied our sump entirely so that shit ran dry overnight for days cus it drained so fast.

Frankly it’s pissing me off cus we get dinged by corporate for it constantly and we’ve used every option they’ve suggested and nothing has worked.

I’ve thought about trying the Seachem phosphate remover, but that’s not exactly a permanent option since the tower is about 125 gallons and I’d have to purchase it out of pocket since I definitely won’t get store use approval.

Any thoughts? Has anyone tried any successful methods?

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My cyanobacteria #mycyanobacteria

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Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes that originated 3.5 billion years ago and are distributed throughout the world where moisture and light is available. A systemic survey of cyanobacteria was carried out in different freshwater bodies of Krishnagar Sadar subdivision of Nadia district, West Bengal throughout the year 2021. Krishnagar Sadar subdivision covers a vast area of 1,661.10km2.The subdivision is totally surrounded by the river Ganga locally known as Bhagirathi and gives rise to many freshwater bodies which are the main reservoirs of many types of cyanobacteria. During this survey samples were collected from different freshwater bodies mainly rivers, drains, ponds, jheel, rice fields etc. Altogether 35 heterocystous and non-heterocystous cyanobacterial forms belonging to the 21 genera were documented from these freshwater bodies of the Krishnagar Sadar subdivision. The most common and dominant cyanobacterial genera were Oscillatoria representing 8 species followed by Gloeothece, Gloeocapsa, Chroococcus, Phormidium, Anabaena, Cylindrospermum and Nostoc each with two species. Merismopedia, Aphanothece, Aphanocapsa, Lyngbya, Pseudanabaena, Westiellopsis, Nostochopsis, Stigonema, Tolypothrix, Calothrix, Gloeotrichia and Rivularia with one species each.

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everyone say thank you to these little guys for the oxygen you’ve currently breathing