Red slime

[Uptowngirl]

Help! Red slime has taken over my tank in less than 2 weeks.
I recently had an issue with a leaky water mixing/ro station so I’ve been buying my top off water from a lfs.
My stats are
Nitrate: 20 ppm
Phosphate: 0.5 ppm
Calcium: 420
Alkalinity: 8.6
Magnesium: 1230.
29 gallon biocube 5 gallon water change twice a month. No sump but I have a hob skimmer. I run charcoal in filter sock. I feed Lrs frozen food.
What else could I be doing?
Also everything started to close up cause I wiped slime off the glass to take a picture

 

[Bapeluso]

If it is indeed red slime, I love this product. It's worked for me every time and is reef safe

 

[manlykady]

whats the temperature of the water

 

[Uptowngirl]

whats the temperature of the water

80

 

[manlykady]

do a water change
clean the substrate
feed less for a couple days
and another reason ive heard from people is that the lighting can either be too strong or too weak

 

[manlykady]

try 78

 

[dannysreeftank]

If you can’t beat manually with higher flow, water changes and good husbandry I’d use chemi clean https://amzn.to/3aIDEeG

 

[Gary67]

If it is indeed red slime, I love this product. It's worked for me every time and is reef safe

 

[Gary67]

i just bought some 0f this ultra life red slime the color is redish brown it was all over it started slowly then boom all over the placethey say leave it for 2 days then start sucking it up i also have a ton of algar that i wipe down 2-4 x a day so Friday i will change the ater i have 30 gallons reaady to go for a 75 g tank i'm also thinking my lights are to white might have to put bluein it. they say it will slow down the frag growth i just don't belive it any idea how much blue light i should add to my tank thanks gGary