Red Slime Algea

[kp1917]

I have been fighting Red Slime for the better part of the last year. I got a hang on refugium and that seemed to make it worse. I've taken off the refugium and moved to a canister filter. My last hope has been a couple of weeks of Red Slime remover and very low lighting. I'm afraid that I'm going to have to purge the whole tank and start over.

ANY IDEAS??

 

[FOSELONE]

red slime remover works...then some water changes...

 

[Runfrumu]

make sure you get it all with the red slime remover. the cyano seems to become immune to it after a couple of treatments.

 

[mhender]

Chem-A-Clean works. So do antibiotics. I used some old perscription stuff that was laying around. Cleaned it upi right away

 

[dendro982]

Is it possible to reduce feeding (or change it to a different kind of food), prewash frozen food, or improve skimming? Making better mechanical filtration and liquidating detritus accumulation in far ends of the hank could help too.

 

[chercm]

does red slime go off itself with the lowering of the no3 ?

do not plan to use any more chemicals on my tank

 

[dendro982]

Nope. With nitrates down to 10-20 ppm (from 80 ppm an year ago) I have the summer wave of the red slime (tanks with no chiller).
But tank had aiptasia treatment, and still has places of the detritus accumulation, that are removed manually.

I used chemicals, Ultralife Red Slime Remover (makes water very yellow, but the it passes), partially helped (some kind of thick red slime is resistant), but effect lasted for a couple of months only.

I used ChemiClean in another tank (oxidizer), it cleans surfaces, particularly the clams' shells and bare places on Chtistmas tree rock, but again, effect lasted for no more than 2 months.

There is some cause for red slime growth, apart from low flow, I have to find it.

 

[chercm]

my no3 is around 3ppm but there is red slime , i increased the flow but does not seems to work

 

[vt4lifecuf]

red slime remover with good flow and water change

 

[Reefer Brian]

Chemi-clean, water changes and phosphate remover= no red slime. Good luck with your plague.

 

[chercm]

i used the red slime remover but after 48 hours , it seems that the algae became red patches on my sand bed like dead , do i continue dosing the remover or remove manually by hand ?

 

[reef_only]

Run phospate and it will be gone.

 

[chercm]

i have been running rowa phos

 

[dendro982]

There is red cyano, thin siphonable out layer, treatable by Ultralife Red Slime Remover (although it returns in a couple of months again), and another red slime, thicker, not removable by siphoning, depressed but not killed by full treatment by Red Slime Remover.

I suspect that the last may be dinoflagellates, but not much air bubbles are trapped inside.

All of above - with regularly changed phosphate remover, regular water changes and oversized skimmer .:rolleye1:

 

[chercm]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13257346#post13257346 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dendro982
There is red cyano, thin siphonable out layer, treatable by Ultralife Red Slime Remover (although it returns in a couple of months again), and another red slime, thicker, not removable by siphoning, depressed but not killed by full treatment by Red Slime Remover.

I suspect that the last may be dinoflagellates, but not much air bubbles are trapped inside.

All of above - with regularly changed phosphate remover, regular water changes and oversized skimmer .:rolleye1:

thanks for the advice

 

[matities23]

Red Slime sucks big time.. I suggest lower the nitrates.. increase the water flow and treat the water with red slime removers, a good brand is Ultralife Red Slime Remover.. or Dr G's red Slime remover... Im not sure if your local fish store carries Dr G's. If you use Ultralife Red Slime Remover turn off your protein skimmer and take out all your carbon because they will suck up the remover and will cancel the medicine. Also try to take as much slime with your hands.. if you see after 48 hrs later u still have slime keep treating the tanks till the slime is gone and make sure you are ready for a water change since most of the chemical use for slime will lover the pH and the O2 level of the tank. Just to be safe i would add a air pump during those days.

 

[ankur1113]

Also try lowering your light cycle, Phosphate remover, Ultralife red slime remover and some more flow if possible. I tried this about 4 monrths back and I didnt see any slime yet. It may be frozen food that might have caused it so now I wash my food before I put it in my tank.

 

[ReefMasta08]

good flow with no dead areas (try hidoors on the supply), phosphate remover, check how old bulbs are, use redslime treatment (monitor PH), get rid of all redslime in tank manually, and keep a good cleaning crew in their. that SHOULD help. redslime treatment WONT get rid of it forever, you have to solve the problem or its a never ending fight.

 

[chercm]

i think it might be due to the ph and dkh as the kalk ph from my stirrer got washed out ....

i changed and it works marvellously. i think the kalk also helps to bind some po4

 

[Martyn]

Finding the causation and fixing that is the key and not just treating the symptoms it is important for the long term to track down and fix the causation.
Longer term you are likely to get reoccurrences if you don't find and fix the causation.