red slime removal

[acrojay]

i have a 40 breeder and i have been battling red slime (cyno). i havennt feed my tank no nutrients in over a week.ive done 5 gallon water changes 2x a week for 4 weeks w/ro/di water.still the red slime comes back.its just in the front of the tank on the bottom.i have a 30 gallon breeder sump w/a 4in dsb and macro.i have a mag 9.5 for return going into a swcd and 2 maxi jet 1200 inside tank.i also have a sealife system 250 protein skimmer w/a mag 7 on that.do you think that i have a too big of a skimmer?
i also cant keep my alk above 3.i dose oceans blend.my calcium stays fine right at 450.i use oceanic sea salt too.

[romunov]

Do a search on New to hobby (http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=104) forum. You'll find countless posts. Good luck. :)

[rshimek]

Hi Acrojay,

The problem is not the red slime. The red slime is just the symptom. The problem is a build up of excess nutrients in the tank. You need to export more nutrients - and you also need to keep feeding the animals in your tank. :D

Do a search of this forum (the search button is at the top of the page). Use "nutrient export" as your search words. You will get a lot of hits. Scan through them and see what some of your options are.

If you have any problems with a skimmer, it is because it isn't skimming enough.

For your chemistry questions, please see the Chemistry Forum. :D

[acrojay]

i dosed my tank last night my red slime remover by ultralife and wow does this stuff work!!!i had been battling red slime for over a month now and now not one spot of it noo more.

i dosed the night before and turned off skimmer from skimming but was still running.i took out all of my carbon bags.i just let it run all night.then today i woke up early and did a 5 gallon water change.then about 2-3 hours later i did another 5 gallon water change syphonning out all of the crap gfrom my gravel.then another 3 hours i turned on the skimmer.it spit out soooo much water that i had to turn down the valve almost all the way off and it was still spitting out like crazy.i had a 5 gallon buket full of water made already to replace the water being spit out by skimmer.after about a hour the skimmer started slowing down and i could open the ball valve open to where i had it before.i put some carbon bags back in and it looks crystal clear and no sign of red slime.


its a little long process but if you have paitence its worth the whole wait.just consider my tank is full of ORA sps,zoos,and rics.
and now im going to go purchase a reef janitor pack some where so i keep this and all unwanted algae rid of.does anyone now and a equal mix of clean up crews.is so let me know.thank you:furious:

[acrojay]

almost a month has gone by annd still no sign of red slime.it even got shot down by hurricane frances for 4 days of no power.not one piece of ORA sps or zoos were suffered.

[Jeremy Blaze]

Hurricane Francis hit Fiji?

[acrojay]

parts of it