Red Slime? Please help to remove this

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I purchased this tank second hand, when I moved it and set it up, after about 2 weeks this started to show up and only getting worse. Please help, thank you for time and infomation.

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Should add, I have no carbon or GFO, if that matters. I tried keeping everything he had. Should i add some?
 
It looks like cyano...

what do you do for weekly maintenance?

Have you tested PO4 and Nitrate?

Did you keep the original sand bed? it might be filthy.
 
Should add, I have no carbon or GFO, if that matters. I tried keeping everything he had. Should i add some?


It dose look like Cyano....
Siphon what you can with a large water change.
Increase flow.
Cut lighting hrs. and intensity for a little while.

Cyano can out compete the good bacteria so I would not add GFO. Carbon is ok. What is your Nitrate and PO4?
 
This is the light schedule I imported from him. Which seems really high? It's a red sea reefer 170. Single ai prime 16 hd.
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