How long is the "cyano cycle" on a new tank

[tg1119]

My 29 gallon:
running since 6/20/06
40lbs live rock, 25lbs live sand, 2 damsels, scooter blenny, 2 pepermint shrimp, 3 astrea, 8 nassarius, 4 turbo, 7 trochus, did have 8 but they are dumb, a couple of mushrooms, xenia, and some zoanthids.

Aqua C remora, maxi jet 1200 with rotating hydor thing, and a skilter filter that doesn't skim only for carbon and phosban,
192 watt pc, one white 96 watt, one actinic 96 watt.

I have been fighting cyano for about 2 months now and I am hoping it should be coming to an end here soon. Or is it going to be another month or so of this?

Any thoughts would be great as I am getting very frustrated.
oh yeah
PH - 8.2
Sal - 1.024
Am. - 0
Phos. - not 0 (buddies test kit about a week ago) now added phosban
I do not have nitrate or nitrite (I know - big no no)
temp - 78 - 80

[Texreefer]

the only mention i see about water movement is a MJ1200.. sounds like you need a bit more water movement than that.. you need to test for nitrate to see where you are at...,, how much are you feeding the tank? i have had my tank up since 6-20-06 as well and have have zero algea for almost two months.. this seems to be an issue for debate now but where are you getting your water..I say ro/di is the way to go until someone can prove beyond a doubt that it doesn't cause algae through the addition of unwanted nutrients

[tg1119]

I had been getting my water at a couple of different LFS but I really didn't trust them and now go to HEB to the water machine. I only feed my condi a small piece of a silver side every couple of days. I just got the blenny 2 days ago and he has been chowing down on pods or what I would asume he moves around all day eating stuff of the rock, glass, and sand. There is a skilter filter on the tank too, the power head is as close to the bottom as I can move it, as it already has been blowing the sand around.

[tg1119]

I think I found the reason or would hope so. I was looking for something dead in the back when I noticed mounds of just junk. it just looks like decaying stuff. I think this is my fault because the majority of my rock was shipped to me and I don't think that it was completly cured and I just had to put it in my tank. This was before I started doing alot of reading on reef tanks. I also added a small power head very low that is adding good flow to the sand.

[Texreefer]

your nitrates are probably sky high.. i would get a test kit and start doing small water changes.. also , always a good idea to scrub live rock in some clean saltwater before adding it to tank to get the larger dieoff out of the way.. make sure you get the "junk" out of the tank