Algee
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Dante12345
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I've used chemi-clean to get rd of the red slime, cleans it up pretty quick. I just finished conquering a gha breakout as well and after a few extra weekly water changes it broke up. I even tried using algae fix marine and was pleasantly surprised, I only dosed it once so between that and water changes it'll clear it a few weeks. It takes some patience.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
Nuisance algae and/or Cyanobacteria never "goes away". It's something we all deal with continually.
To borrow an an analogy from G :
IT'S A WASTE MANAGEMENT ISSUE.
View algae as a good thing. It's an indicator something is amiss. Perhaps elevated phosphates or nitrates. And the nuisance algae is helping to rid your aquarium of those REAL problems.
Most experienced reef keepers I know of would NOT recommend Chemiclean.
They would suggest addressing the issue of waste management.
To borrow an an analogy from G :
IT'S A WASTE MANAGEMENT ISSUE.
View algae as a good thing. It's an indicator something is amiss. Perhaps elevated phosphates or nitrates. And the nuisance algae is helping to rid your aquarium of those REAL problems.
Most experienced reef keepers I know of would NOT recommend Chemiclean.
They would suggest addressing the issue of waste management.
ReeferSteve78
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Well said Gary.. Too eliminate it you have to find whats causing it.. Check your levels? Is there enough flow? How long do you have your lights on?etc....
mr.maroonsalty
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More like find where detritus is accumulating and get rid of it; a power head with or w/o a piece of vinyl tubing, or a turkey baster is great to dislodge wastes that settled in the rocks even if you have outstanding random flow. The sand bed is suspect. Are you using socks and cleaning them enough, how grungy has the sump or fuge become? It may turn out there isn't a lot of waste stored in those places and a GAC and GFO routine could get the tank over the hump. Maybe doing better more routine water changes with very low or 0 tds will take care of it; I feel wc's are more than letting a few gallons out and replacing them, rather it's when I get in somewhere with a vacuum or syphon hose and find some gunk. Remember it's taken awhile to get to this point and it should take a will to get back to where you want it.
Personally, I would not use Chemiclean or Red Slime remover or Algae fix on a reeftank even for a short term fix There have been too many reports of crashed tanks ad losses for me to risk it.
Skimming, carbon, cleaning out detritus accumulations and exporting PO4 with gfo or otherwise will get it under control.
Skimming, carbon, cleaning out detritus accumulations and exporting PO4 with gfo or otherwise will get it under control.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
possibly. But you have to keep in mind that algae outbreaks happen in every aquarium that doesn't manage waste levels.
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
Waste = what the aquarist puts into the aquarium vs. what gets removed from the aquarium. If waste export is greater than import you might have 30 fishes and no PO4 / nitrates.
