Green Slime Algae

[Psionicdragon]

So I did a search on RC and didn't find much about green slime algae, but I did find a ton of information about red cyano.

I understand that phosphate and nitrate fuels these buggers and best things to do are:

-Water changes, suck out as much as you can. Use RODI water with 0 TDS reading.
-Feed less or drain foods of their juices
-Use Chemi Clean and/or Red Slime removers for cyano.
-Grow macro algae to compete for nutrients
-add silicate to field the other kind of algae

So I did the first four and still having issues. The Chemi-Clean does not target the green slime algae.

I need to know what else I can do to get rid of these buggers. Since the tank is in hypo, the skimmer doesn't work too well.

So any ideas???

 

[kau_cinta_ku]

more flow in the area's of the alage

 

[bertoni]

If the tank is undergoing hypo treatment, that might be the major issue. Did it have live rock in it?

 

[Psionicdragon]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7375249#post7375249 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bertoni
If the tank is undergoing hypo treatment, that might be the major issue. Did it have live rock in it?

The tank does have live rocks and live sands. When I first did the hypo back in Janurary, I did not have any outbreaks. During the second treatment on end of April, I started noticing a lot of green slime algae. I thought it wasn't going to be a huge problem using tap water as refill, but when the algae started getting worst, I switched back to RODI. This tank has been running for around um.....8-9 months now. The live sands does not contain any critters because well first wave would've wiped them out. The only things that are still alive are nassarius snails, which is surprising to me since they are living through hypo.

Nitrate is at 10 ppm, Phosphate is at .25ppm. Both test kits use Salifert test kits.

This is what I have:

2 x 250 MH lum 3 which are turned off
ASM G4 with upgraded 9000 pump
Phosban 150
Chaeto
Return pump (sedra clone 1350 gph).
2 tunze 6100 at full blast on multicontroller

and a ton of heaters.

However, I do have a huge bio load. I started using Filter socks to capture them.

I am trying to rig up something so I can reach down further to suck out more of the green algae, but I have not had much time since its finals week.

 

[bertoni]

Well, the cyanobacteria bloom might be caused by the die-off of the animals in the rock due to hyposalinity. I think you're just stuck for a while.

 

[Psionicdragon]

alright =/