hello
I have a Red Sea reefer 525 108 gallon and it’s pretty well stocked fish wise. 3 tangs, 2 clowns, 3 different hawk fish, 2 cardinals, 6 chromis , 2 wrasses , 1 starry blenny and a Mandarin. Ive also battled with red slime, cyano/dinos and hair for many many months. I tried many things from slime removers to black outs, fluconozale, added a UV sterilizer And many water changes. The issues followed me through a move to another house where we took down the tank but didn’t mess with the sand bed, we set the tank back up and the issues didn’t skip a beat. After much research I started to pick up on people saying low nitrates cater to cyano and red slime issues so after water testing and noticing how low my nitrates had become I decided to back off from water changes and reduced feeding a little bit. After a few weeks of no water changes I started noticing a difference. Now my sand is red slime free, my rocks have no more hair algae and no dinos/red slime. One thing I will add is that I do run an appropriate sized Clearwater aquatics algae scrubber, a reef octopus skimmer and added pentair aquatics UV sterilizer . So I do feel that I have enough filtration to handle no water changes for a bit. I did just recently do a 5 gallon water change but so far so good. My nitrates stay at 20-25 and po4 0.02-0.06. Not sure if this will work for everyone but I just wanted to share this with y’all. HAPPY REEFING!!
