Red Sump Slime?

[TheRealRuk]

Seams to be a common theme in my sump/fuge. (revamped it a few times) If I let it go it gets pretty thick and even got on my cheato. I had it get onto one of my rocks in the DT a little while back. I just increased a little flow towards the rock and it cleared up over a week or so. I've seen picture of others skimmers with he same red/purple... Let it go? Keep wiping it off early?

Thx!

Matt

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

do you feed frozen mysis or brine shrimp?

make sure S.G. is @ 1.026 and skimmer is properly sized and tuned.

prevent light from reaching skimmer- cyano needs some light in order to grow..

 

[TheRealRuk]

Thx Gary,

I do feed mysis and keep my SG at 1.026. Skimmer is properly sized, I'll look at maybe re-tuning it. It's right next to my fuge so I may have a problem with cutting down the light long term. I do get it in the fuge as well other areas of the sump. I have a 5k on my fuge 24/7...

Can you expound?

Matt

 

[TheRealRuk]

It does look to grow in circumference around the light. Better bulb on the fuge?

 

[tent boy]

Gary,
Why did you ask about mysis and brine shrimp?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Gary,
Why did you ask about mysis and brine shrimp?

they grow red slime real good

Keep the fuge light from hitting the skimmer and cyano won't grow in it

 

[Johnny C]

they grow red slime real good

Interesting. Care to elaborate?

 

[redrider911]

So Mysis grows red algae and Brine has no nutritional value. My assortment of frozen food just got smaller

 

[tent boy]

So besides feeding spectrum pellets, what is best the frozen food?

 

[GMaquarium]

some frozen foods will cause more cyano growth due to higher nutrient import with feeding. Can also add krill to the list. Rinsing in ro water before feeding is not a bad idea. Although regular brine is not such a great source of nutrition, the enhanced and the sperulina brine is not bad. Mysis is pretty good to use.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Care to elaborate?

like G already posted, some frozen foods will cause more cyano growth due to higher nutrients.

To be clear here in this thread, red algae (Rodophyta) is not the same thing as red slime algae (Cyanobacteria).