Red Coating on Rock
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dbarker
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Well, I would vote for cyanobacteria, a red mat looking beast and usually referred to as "slime alage". You can get some cerith snails, blue hermits or scarlet hermits to take care of that along with siphoning it off with a small air hose. I usually siphon the algae into a filtersock so that I don't loose any water. (got that trick from Joey08!) This trick also works well for getting rid of brown flat worms! Good Luck and don't panic! Debbie
the snails and crabs arnt going to do anything for it and siphoning will clean it up but doesnt solve the problem. if it is red slim there , it is there for one of two reason normaly. over feeding, lack of flow, and or both. what size tank and what are you using for flow?
beaslbob
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If it is soft and easily "brushes" (of blows) off the rick then I say cyano.
On extremly fist way of "removing" it is to kill your lights for a few days. It dies off very fast.
Then macros in your sump can consume the nutrients instead of the cyano.
On extremly fist way of "removing" it is to kill your lights for a few days. It dies off very fast.
Then macros in your sump can consume the nutrients instead of the cyano.
