Red Slime Remover or Chemiclean

[Wolfren696]

Hi guys,

I need your opinion. For the last month i been battleling red slime on my 20 gal setup and "guest who is winning" [emoji31]. I'm already on my last resort of looking for another alternative. I know that for red slime to strive needs hight levels of NO3, Phosphate and other things. My levels are NO3: 5ppm and Phosphate: 0.25, I can tell u that I never let my no3 go over 10ppm.
This breakout caught off guard and been unable to pin point the culprit [emoji33]. I would like to here your opinion, pro and cons about this two products "Chemiclean and red slime remover".

 

[choff]

I had an outbreak a few months back and I looked into and purchased chemi clean, but didn't end up using. I spent hours reading up on it and it seemed to me that about 95 pct of the people who followed the directions correctly had success with it, but there was a very small population of people that had very negative experience with it. I weeded out the idiot responses and the ones with bad experiences with it all had reasonable thorough responses and seemed to be skilled reefers. Again they were the vast minority, but it was enough for me to not use it. Now, my outbreak was slight and if it got really bad I would have used it, but with how minor my issue was the 5 pct risk wasn't worth it to me.

 

[feh]

.25 is high for PO4 if you have corals. Do you make your own water? How much and how often do you feed? Any missing inhabitants or anything? Dead snails? How old is the tank?

 

[Wolfren696]

I had an outbreak a few months back and I looked into and purchased chemi clean, but didn't end up using. I spent hours reading up on it and it seemed to me that about 95 pct of the people who followed the directions correctly had success with it, but there was a very small population of people that had very negative experience with it. I weeded out the idiot responses and the ones with bad experiences with it all had reasonable thorough responses and seemed to be skilled reefers. Again they were the vast minority, but it was enough for me to not use it. Now, my outbreak was slight and if it got really bad I would have used it, but with how minor my issue was the 5 pct risk wasn't worth it to me.

@choff mine is getting pretty bad, it started spreading to other to other rocks. Thanks for ur advice

 

[bigtslape]

I have used red stain remove in friends tanks work great no wayer change needed

 

[Wolfren696]

.25 is high for PO4 if you have corals. Do you make your own water? How much and how often do you feed? Any missing inhabitants or anything? Dead snails? How old is the tank?

@feh No corals yet, no inhabitants missing, I feed tem once a day with mice shrimps or soft pellets. Any excess of food is removed from the aquarium. My setup is around 6 month old and yes I do make my own water with RO/DI and instant reef ocean reef crystal mix.

 

[Wolfren696]

I have used red stain remove in friends tanks work great no wayer change needed

@bigslap did you discovered any 2nd effects?

 

[Noob]

i've tried 2 different methods and they work to varying degrees. i've tried Chemiclean, and it was very good. helped get rid of A LOT of cyano. GFO alone wasn't cutting it for me. followed the directions to the T, running it for 2 days and aerating the water and then doing a large water change. BUT some of it did come back, but what came back eventually went away b/c my GFO was helping keep everything down. it did not come back in that tank.

in another tank, i had a small outbreak, what i tried this time was another trick that i read, that is to turn out the lights completely for 3 days. i did that and it worked! but it came back a bit. i think my issue was, not doing a large enough water change after i turned out the lights. i think i should have blown off anything existing and then done a very large water change.

so, for you, i'd try turning out the lights for 3 days first and do a large water change. then if that doesn't work, try the Chemiclean.

 

[zwulfke]

I had to dose 3 times with chem clean doing a water change in between I have to say it worked great and now my conch eats what little I get and my goaby keeps the sand clean

 

[Wolfren696]

i've tried 2 different methods and they work to varying degrees. i've tried Chemiclean, and it was very good. helped get rid of A LOT of cyano. GFO alone wasn't cutting it for me. followed the directions to the T, running it for 2 days and aerating the water and then doing a large water change. BUT some of it did come back, but what came back eventually went away b/c my GFO was helping keep everything down. it did not come back in that tank.

in another tank, i had a small outbreak, what i tried this time was another trick that i read, that is to turn out the lights completely for 3 days. i did that and it worked! but it came back a bit. i think my issue was, not doing a large enough water change after i turned out the lights. i think i should have blown off anything existing and then done a very large water change.

so, for you, i'd try turning out the lights for 3 days first and do a large water change. then if that doesn't work, try the Chemiclean.

I will try that first [emoji2] thank u for the advice.

 

[Wolfren696]

I had to dose 3 times with chem clean doing a water change in between I have to say it worked great and now my conch eats what little I get and my goaby keeps the sand clean

If turning the light doesn't work I will get some chemiclean. thanks for the advice [emoji1]

 

[Newreef15]

I have used Dr.G's red slime remover combined with GFO and I have had great results in the past

 

[Newreef15]

What kind of lights ? How old ?

 

[Wolfren696]

What kind of lights ? How old ?

Aquaticlife T5 HO, 6 month old

 

[EFSleeper]

If you're going lights out remember to clean it all from your tank and on the 4th day don't go full blown lights back on. I shocked a few of my sps with just my blue on at normal the 4th day. But with my it break all I did was do lights out and a few months later came back stronger. So I went with red slime remover and treated half of the volume of my tank and removed all carbon and doubled up on gfo for 3 weeks and it took it clean out

 

[PaulKreider]

I've had It pretty bad for the past month now, just waiting It out.

 

[Wolfren696]

If you're going lights out remember to clean it all from your tank and on the 4th day don't go full blown lights back on. I shocked a few of my sps with just my blue on at normal the 4th day. But with my it break all I did was do lights out and a few months later came back stronger. So I went with red slime remover and treated half of the volume of my tank and removed all carbon and doubled up on gfo for 3 weeks and it took it clean out

Good thing is that I don't have any corals yet. Thanks for the advice

 

[LegitFish]

Two treatments of chemiclean, then 25% water change. And keep ph in balance.

 

[Wolfren696]

If you're going lights out remember to clean it all from your tank and on the 4th day don't go full blown lights back on. I shocked a few of my sps with just my blue on at normal the 4th day. But with my it break all I did was do lights out and a few months later came back stronger. So I went with red slime remover and treated half of the volume of my tank and removed all carbon and doubled up on gfo for 3 weeks and it took it clean out

@EFSleeper Thank for u your advice

 

[Wolfren696]

Two treatments of chemiclean, then 25% water change. And keep ph in balance.

@LegitFish Yeah I'm thinking to go and try chemiclean first. It seems that too many people tried it and recommend the product. I was also thinking to do a water change after the treatment and reduce my T5 hours.