Red Slime Algae***methods of removell***

[bjonesjr1]

I found in my water tests the other day that I have a bit of a phostphate problem, most likely due to some over feeding... But I bought some phosban from seachem today from my LFS and was wondering if this would be enough for my tank to get rid of this problem??? I normal do 5gallon water changes every week, and does every other day for calcium using arragmilk...

This red slime algae is starting to form on my sand bed and alittle onto my glass, I need to get rid of this, Is what I'm doing now good enough? Or do I need to be doing other things ??? Thanks for the help RC members, greatly aprreciated...

 

[bjonesjr1]

here is a picture of my sand bed...

 

[Sk8r]

Red slime is not ordinary algae; it is a bacterial growth and needs a different treatment. You don't have a half-bad infestation yet: you might be able to suck it up with a turkey baster and get rid of it by skimming wet.

If it gets to sheets of bubble-filled nastiness covering most of your tank, you may need Chemi-clean---but the very first thing you need to do is try to remediate it by a) testing your water and correcting it to ideal b) watching overfeeding c) if clean and innocent of overfeeding and you still have it, then apply the more drastic fix, but follow directions absolutely immaculately, and do it when you have hours to spend. You are using ro/di, right? If you aren't, that's problem 1: has to be super clean water.

 

[bjonesjr1]

I've been trying to grab it ever so slowly when my hand is in the tank, I don't stir it around as this is bad and will spread it all over the tank.

All my water test are good except for the phosphates, so I added phosban by seachem hopefully that will work and correct the problem if their is no phostphates in the tank then their won't be any algae right. I've cut back on my feeding. I use RO/DI water from the LFS for water changes, I always do water test on his water before adding to my tank, their always good. and I use RO water for top offs that water is always good also, sometimes the ph is alittle off but I correct that all the time.