give me some tips and idea's on fighitng Red Slime Algae and how to rid your tank of it
Red Slime Algae-Tips for eradication
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Steven R
Well-Known Member
chemi- clean works wonders and it is 100 perent reef safe ( i have used it only once thank god) and it will not knock out your bio-filter. Use it as exactly as it tells you to. I put the amount it told me to in to my system and turned off my skimmer for 48 hours and did a 30 percent water change and voila it is gone.
fraggingfish
Community Member
Water changes help many times, depleting the excess nutrient levels in your system.
It'll starve all types of algae, if you over feed or leave dead matter in your system idle for too long those become high levels of nitrates.
Again, water change frequency and husbandry is key to keeping a healthy system.
It'll starve all types of algae, if you over feed or leave dead matter in your system idle for too long those become high levels of nitrates.
Again, water change frequency and husbandry is key to keeping a healthy system.
vankirk
New Member
IME I had to try to limit phosphate input and increase phosphate export.
Reducing input for me was to use RO/DI for water changes and top-offs. And rinse frozen food with RO/DI water.
Export was to use GFO in a reactor.
Reducing input for me was to use RO/DI for water changes and top-offs. And rinse frozen food with RO/DI water.
Export was to use GFO in a reactor.
spanko
Henry
Red Slime (Cyano Bacteria)
Cyano grows on top of nutrient rich areas of low flow. There are a number of things that need to be correct or possibly corrected to combat this without the use of chemical additives. The biggest thing is to get rid of the extra nutrients.
Keeping nutrient levels low to non-existent will help to avoid Cyano outbreaks and any algae outbreaks as well as keep your tank and you happy happy.
Hope that helps.
Cyano grows on top of nutrient rich areas of low flow. There are a number of things that need to be correct or possibly corrected to combat this without the use of chemical additives. The biggest thing is to get rid of the extra nutrients.
- Evaluate your feeding. If you are feeding more than can be eaten in about 1-2 minutes it is too much and the remainder of it is falling to the rock and sand and becoming nutrient.
- Evaluate your flow. If you have areas in the tank where there is little to no flow this can be corrected by adding power heads or repositioning the ones you already have. You don’t need to create sand storms just have water moving over the area to keep detritus suspended in the water column for removal by your filter – skimmer.
- Evaluate your water changes. The solution to pollution is dilution! You want to continually remove unneeded nutrients as well as replace those things that are used by the system. 10% weekly is a good change schedule. Some do 20% every other week and some vary the schedule from there, but a good start is 10% per week.
- Evaluate your lighting schedule. About 8-10 hours of daylight is all that is needed.
- If you have a Cyano outbreak do the above 4 items and:
- At water change time siphon off the Cyano first. It will come up easily almost like a blanket.
- After siphoning stir the affected areas a little to suspend any detritus for the water change and filtering - skimming removal.
- Use a turkey baster on the rockwork now and at every water change in the future to again suspend the detritus for removal by the water change and your filtering – skimming.
Keeping nutrient levels low to non-existent will help to avoid Cyano outbreaks and any algae outbreaks as well as keep your tank and you happy happy.
Hope that helps.
Saltgator
Tang Keeper
I tried this method that I wrote up and it worked wonders for me. GL
https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/reef-discussion/71730-maracyn-red-cyano.html
https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/reef-discussion/71730-maracyn-red-cyano.html
Batt
Active Member
Cyno is formed from a stain of bad bacteria that can form from bad water condition, sticking your hand in the tank, frags that have this bad bacteria strain. There a lot of thing that will cause you to get this . Water changes is a no no. It feed the bacteria more causing the cyno to spread. Your best bet is to by Red slime remover , Its a med that kills the Bad bacteria strain in your tank that feeds the cyno . So in 48h of dosing red slime remover cyno dies out . You must do a big water change after that and blast off all rocks. It is best to run a UV or Ozonizer to prevent this strain from ever spreading again.
Justin MD
New Member
Purigen and heavy skimming helps a lot. Also, running your 'fuge light (if you have macro) during the lights out period of the DT will help too. Nitrates seem to be at their highest late in the night cycle. Do the water change in the morning and be sure to blow the rocks off while doing the water change.
cjvale
Active Member
ok so i just got done running my cycle to rid this red slime in my frag tank. first i removed my hob skimmer, down graded my power head, an added per the directions. ran if for 48 hrs and did a 20 percent h20 change, walllah. no red stuff covering my frags.... so a lil history on my tank, its a 20 gal, t5 lights with a k3 power head, HOB skimmer. i feed every other day (the reason pars were jacked up). i have lps sps and lots of zoa an paly. i did thelighs outfor three days and no change, i did a 20 percent h20 changewith no real change. after reading this i figured chemicals was myonly "quick" fix. well i figured id lose a few frags in the process, well as of right now everything is looking great. btw with only a 20 gal i did a 10 gal h20 chenge. cheeted i guess but the cyano was already gone.
