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Any advice go get rid of this? Does it look like cyano?
I had slacked off on my water changes for a little bit, but recently have done weekly changes. My parameters are in check, except my alkalinity was low Friday at 7.0.
Phosphates and nitrates are 0.

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It definitely looks like cyano. I'm not an expert in eradication, but I've had it in my tank from time to time at varying degrees. I find that when I have detectable levels of po4 and no3 in the 8-10 range that cyano is kept in check. I don't see it.
 
Yup thats cyano. Id blame the organics in your sand. Remove sand rinse clean and put back. Also clean the glass under it. Or bury it with more white sand lol.

What foods are you feeding?
 
yes that's cyano for sure, I have it in my new system 5 weeks old now it should start to go soon all levels of nitrate etc. are ok I will leave it for another week and if it persists I will use chemi-clean to get rid of it
 
Try and get a diamond back goby. And goby that sifts sand. Hermit crabs . They will keep you sand moving. And when they sift they will consume the bacteria that grows call cyano. And cutting back on the feedings will help.
 
Just got some myself......and chemi clean got rid of it real fast
 
I always just vacuumed it out manually and then made sure to keep up on water changes to keep nutrients down and it would seem to 'go away' on it's own. It's not pretty but I never really had any issues from it.
 
Ultralife Red Slime Remover works for me. I just post from another thread how to use it correctly, I will copy and paste to here.
1- Turn OFF Carbon creator or Carbon filter (Carbon will remove RSR)
2- Leave the skimmer On for oxygen, but take the cup off or let it drain back to the sump by the hole from the cup. You need to raise the skimmer up a couple inches and open the output valve completely. (Do not skim away of those RSR)
3- Skimmer has to overflow and it ALWAYS overflow. If it is not overflowing after one night, that means RSR was out of your tank or something not right.
4- To stop the micro bubble from skimmer send back to display tank, You can put few black foam in the middle compartment between the skimmer compartment and return compartment.
5- For best result, after 2 days you can use the toothbrush to brush all the red slime algae from rocks and clean your filter sock daily.
6- The red slime algae will clean after few days depend your tank condition. You don't need a water change if you don't want it. Just turn ON your carbon creator and start skim out all of the bubbles to the bucket. (Don't forget to add saltwater into the tank while skimming RSR out).
Within 8 hours your tank will back to normal without water change, but with my opinion, I want change some water by clean my sand bed with some algae die off.

Note: I think the OLD salt mix causes this issue more than light, food, current flow. You need to find out what cause your tank has this issue, if not, it will come back and don't blame on Red slime remover doesn't remove completely.
Hope this help and good luck.
 

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