bubbles on live rock

[alliedag85]

okay i have bubbles on one of my many live rock and im trying to stop it from spreding all over my tank. can n e one tell me how to stop it.will post pics tomorrow. thanks been tank has been up since nov 5 08. all per are good cal 375 alk 9 ph 8.3 phos & nitr close to zero sal. 1.024 temp goes up and down between 76-78. actinic lights on at 11am-10pm and 10k from 12pm-9pm. i feed every other day. im using bonic part 1 & 2 and dose every night @ 10pm with 5mm tank is a 29gal. please help:at_wits_end:using two 24" actinic and 1 24" 10k light. all powered @ 65 watts each. total 195watts 6.7 watts per gallon. what else can i tell you. i do water changes every week with di water 5 gal each time. i started getting the bubbles a two weeks ago when i started using di water. b4 i was using tap water w prime.:hypnotyized:

[moe]

when u say bubbles what do u mean by that?

[cbianco]

Probably bubble algae, valonia (sp?). We would need some pictures to be certain.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-02/hcj/feature/index.php

Does it look like this...

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-02/hcj/feature/images/image008.jpg

[LoneStar]

Is it green in color?

[alliedag85]

no not a green just looks like air bubbles. i took my power head to it. was fine for a day then came back.

[alliedag85]

doesnt look like any in the link.

[g-ray]

could be cyano

[Gseclipse02]

could be cyano

pics

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u302/HelfrichChick/Critters%20for%20ID%20use/cyano.jpg

[MKCindy]

Are they gone in the morning before your lights come on?

[alliedag85]

nope still there they look like the pic above thats jt posted

[alliedag85]

could it be the starting of slime

[wesheltonj]

Hard to tell, but it look very much like cyano

[g-ray]

pics

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u302/HelfrichChick/Critters%20for%20ID%20use/cyano.jpg


Pretty sure thats red slime bacteria

[Gseclipse02]

the pic i posted wasn't his tank just a random google images pic

[Dee]

I've been having a similar problem the past month. I've been getting an accumulation of air bubbles all over. Currently have an outbreak of cyano and it sticks to that, but it sticks to anything that has even the slightly bit of algae on it. I don't know why there are so many bubbles...and my sand bed seems to have a lot underneath the cyano areas also.

Dee

[alliedag85]

lets say it is cyano how do i stop it? how does cyano start?

[moe]

i wondering what u have, and what u feed it? also do u have any cleaners?

[mikemcd]

I don't pretend to have any level of expertise like the other folks who post on here, but I saw the same thing discussed in a forum recently (and I think it may have been on this site). I had the same thing to and it went along with an outbreak of red stuff in my sand.

Based on what I read, I turned off the lights for a few days--because I know my RO/DI which comes from River City was good and I also don't overfeed. So...it had to be lighting.

I reduced my light time by about 1/2 hour to just to make sure and it seems like the problem has gone away.

Mike McD

[Kristy]

When our tank had just been upgraded about a month or so, we had a nice outbreak of cyano and algae - or two. Somewhere in that process we started getting all these oxygen bubbles that were clinging to the rocks. Also same bubbles were trapped along the sandline so that if you poked at the sand, bubbles would be released.

I posted about it here on MAAST and we had a small discussion. Someone commented that it was part of the algae die-off process, and that hopefully it meant the algae was beginning to improve itself. The algae did improve after that and the oxygen bubbles also.

I am doing a search for that thread but so far have not been able to find it (wanted to offer the link for you to read). If I do find it, I'll post it here.

[moe]

i remenber when i first had my 10gal it was run by the redslime. I would just move the sand around. Aside that I found out that the SG was very high, I was overfeeding. A good friend came to the rescue and help me out. corkeyGRAMMER, I learn alot from her.

[tony]

definitely looks like cyano

be aggressive with water changes and vacuum out as much as you can

later on you might try chemiclean, lots of people here have had success with it, including myself (numerous times)

[tony]

one of the best posts ive seen regarding cyano

http://maast.org/forums/showpost.php?p=643758&postcount=6

[alliedag85]

thanks tony! im @ wk so when i get hm i will get the bubbles out. how long should i keep the lights off for?

[tony]

i wouldnt change the lighting cycle

it needs it to grow but doesnt solve the problem

[alliedag85]

today i had the light on for 5hr 10k and the actinic for 7hr.
im going to do a water chsnge today.

[alliedag85]

well b4 i did the water change i checked my per. alk is low and pho and nit is kind high. i took out my bio balls and replaced it with live rock. im just wondering y my alk went down it was 2t 9.

sal. 1.024
ph. 8.3
cal. 400
alk. 4
phos. 0.4
nitrate. 20

[Goofball310]

just a quick question... how old is your tank?

[secretweapons22]

I have had the same problem, water changes and vacuming the top of you sand bed along with the cyno seems to work well.. u loose a little sand but not much sometimes ill rinse the sand and let it dry out and throw it back in my sump.

[alliedag85]

tank has been up since nov 5 08

[alliedag85]

well i got the nit and phos back down just trying the get the alk back up. ill check my per in a few days. thanks for the help everyone