Red Slime Algae
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SSPReefer
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first we need to get to the source of your problem before taking care of the red slime. give us a run down of your water parameters so we know what we are working with. there are a few different options to go with from chemical base to natural.
beaslbob
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Kill the and stop all feedings until it all dies off. Then resume with less duration lights and less feeding and adjust so the good stuff thrives buy the cyano does not come back.
my .02
wildcrazyjoker81
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Get in the tank with some airline tubing and suck out as much of the cyano as possible. Then set your skimmer to skim wetter than normal and cut the lights for 2 days. The tank needs to stay absolutley dark (I tape cardboard around my 55 to avoid as much daylight as possible.) That will temporarily kill it off in the tank, but you need to fix the overall problem. Are you using 0 TDS RO/DI water? What are you feeding and how much?
jweed9379
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What do you mean by tds ro/di water? And i dont have a skimmer, in currently in the process of building and ordering everything i need to convert to a sump...i am using an eheim cannister filter right now until i get my sump set up
wildcrazyjoker81
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TDS = Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) are the total amount of mobile charged ions, including minerals, salts or metals dissolved in a given volume of water, expressed in units of mg per unit volume of water (mg/L), also referred to as parts per million (ppm). TDS is directly related to the purity of water and the quality of water purification systems and affects everything that consumes, lives in, or uses water, whether organic or inorganic, whether for better or for worse.
So if you have an RO/DI you need to know what the TDS reading is on it to make sure the water is as clean as possible. Also you don't necessarily need a skimmer. Just do 10-20%l water changes daily while the lights are off to export nutrients out of the tank. Also DO NOT feed the tank at all while doing this. Your fish and corals won't die over it.
wildcrazyjoker81
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Not really actually. Cyano feeds off of phosphate and nitrate so your levels will more than likely seem good to you, but that is because the algae is feeding off of the bad stuff. What do you do for fresh water?
wildcrazyjoker81
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Which is really good, but where are you sourcing water from? IE Tap water, Bottled Distilled water, RO water from LFS, etc?
wildcrazyjoker81
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have them show you a TDS reading on the water. LFS sometimes will used water well past 0 TDS to stretch out their dollar. I would invest in an RO/DI before getting more fish and or corals personally.
