I had been fighting a cryno algee problem in my tank about 6 months ago. I had let my cleanning crew dwindle down, this may have caused the problem, don't know what really causes this problem in a tank. Anyway, I increased my clean up crew, I added a MP40 to the tank to increase flow, between water changes
I put a filter sock on the tank, put a pump into the tank with a hose on it and shot water over and around all the LR trying to remove the detrius out of the tank, made sure I kept the detrius out of the sump. After all of this, I started winning the cryno battle, I have a feeling though, that if I let up at all the problem will be back, I don't see any in the tank at this time though. My point to all of this: I have about 130 pounds of live rock in the tank and another 25 pounds or so in my shed that I have taken out of the tank over time. I was planning on buying new dry rock for the new tank and seed the rock with some clean live rock. If I could some how make sure there isn't any cryno on the live rock that I have in the tank, I could use that in the new tank and save myself around $300 to $400 What do ya'll think?
I put a filter sock on the tank, put a pump into the tank with a hose on it and shot water over and around all the LR trying to remove the detrius out of the tank, made sure I kept the detrius out of the sump. After all of this, I started winning the cryno battle, I have a feeling though, that if I let up at all the problem will be back, I don't see any in the tank at this time though. My point to all of this: I have about 130 pounds of live rock in the tank and another 25 pounds or so in my shed that I have taken out of the tank over time. I was planning on buying new dry rock for the new tank and seed the rock with some clean live rock. If I could some how make sure there isn't any cryno on the live rock that I have in the tank, I could use that in the new tank and save myself around $300 to $400 What do ya'll think?
