Best treatment for cyano bacteria (red slime)

[toaster77]

Many species of cyano are photoautotrophic, so lights out for extended periods of time + high flow might help a bit

 

[TDTA1181]

This stuff can be a pain!
One thing to always remember its a bacteria.
Stay on top of dosing chemiclean, dont over do it but stay on top.
Get that skimmer cranking away! Its like pulling out bacterial flocks from carbon dosing.
Manual removal the best you can.
I dont change water in my system so I took a siphon hose down to my sump into a filter.
Let the skimmer pull out the chemiclean. Helps keeps tank balanced from multiple water changes.
Now its a bacteria and will live on for quite some time till you break it down to a point it doesnt come back.
I dose chemiclean once a week.

Lol, just don't do like I did & forget to change out the filter socks a'f treatment. Went to change the socks out today, squeezed excess water outta them and skimmer went haywire for a/b 30-45 min. It was ok in sock but me accidentally stirring it up caused an imbalance for a minute. I ran to sink and re-rinsed everything from the elbow down thinking the whole time what did I have on my skin that contaminated tank then remembered I forgot to change out the sock after my last treatment.

 

[twilliard]

What gets me is people dont understand its a bacteria. Do people know how small a single cell is?
It takes a microscope to see it.
It takes multiple treatments and exports to even notice a slow down.
All you need is that one cell to multiply.
This is not an algae! Its a bacteria
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria

 

[Steve Maxwell]

I had a problem with it and bubble algae in my 29G BioCube. Water changes and cleaning didn't totally take care of it. I ended up changing the cube's light bulbs (the existing ones were about 1 year old...oops) and adding more flow and I haven't seen any in 2 months.

 

[reefpeeper]

What type of lighting is in use and what do you have in teerms of flow?

Leds and for flow i have a mag 3 return and jebeo wp25

 

[DiverGirl82]

I have one spot on my sand bed that keeps going away and coming back. Each time it comes back it's a little bit larger. My nitrates are about 6 and my phosphates are about .02. I've moved my power heads to try to get more flow there but I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to vacuum that area next time it goes away? Or could that possibly cause it to spread?