Cyano

I have what I believe is some red Cyano or slime algae on one particular rock and it is growing. I am reading up on removing it, and I hear if you scrib it away it is difficult to get ride of it all and some of it is on a plug with some polyps that will be hard to remove from the plug. I read to weaken or get rid of it is to turn off the lights for 3 days and also that cyano does not grow well in high flow areas.


My plan would be to leave the lights off for 3 days and point a power head directly at it for that duration.


Thoughts?


Will that plan just loosen and spread the algae to other parts of the tank? I could also move the one rock to a seperate tank and leave the lights out on that tank for several days if I have too btu that is much more work.


Thanx for the advice.

 

it did not crop back up somewhere else josh?

 

I am going to clean off the largest area on a rock and one frag plug. I can see a little in the sand bed on the opposite side of the tank. That I may just siphon out on water change day. I may also move the power heads around a little bit I probably have some dead spots, but once the sump is running I will have some more movement in the tank.