Had the same problem with cyan bacteria. I just kept vacumming as much as i could out. Read somewhere the lack of water flow in that area helps it grow. I have to Koralia #2 powerhead and pointed them in the 2 areas i was having a problem and mine is gone...Im sure it helped that there are no fish in it right now so really no feedings. Good luck
Ultra Red Slime ???
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Darned Capn that tank looks nice. I think you took a picture of it when it was pristine and post it when you need a goos pic of it!!! LOL ! I sound like your wife Is this good or bad ? Hey I'm home was no load today. I'm missing Toronto like i would miss my Cyno!
Ronny I finaly got the dining room painted. Now going to run a new 14/2 wire for a double outlet for the new 75 . i bet you all can't wait for this . You think I bug ya all now!!
Ronny
Ronny I finaly got the dining room painted. Now going to run a new 14/2 wire for a double outlet for the new 75 . i bet you all can't wait for this . You think I bug ya all now!!
Ronny
Aquarist007
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dollar stores in Canada---stop being so cheap and spend a little of that US green stuff when you are visiting us.:lol:
Ya got to answer this cheato ? What is it is it alive looks like Easter eggg basket grass! where do I get it how much for the 25 gal ect ect !
Ronny
P.S Green stuff we don't have any in the us right now there printing some as we speak waiting for ink to dry then Our great politiciens will funnel it into dead economy . No gold to back it though!! By the way dollar store and you get impatient with me when I whine about paying $1995 for Red Slime remover! LOL . You wouls think dollar store would carry some of the stuff we need.
Ronny
P.S Green stuff we don't have any in the us right now there printing some as we speak waiting for ink to dry then Our great politiciens will funnel it into dead economy . No gold to back it though!! By the way dollar store and you get impatient with me when I whine about paying $1995 for Red Slime remover! LOL . You wouls think dollar store would carry some of the stuff we need.
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Cheato is a macro algae. As with any algae it adsorbs nitrates and phosphates as it grows. This diminishes the nitrates and phosphates available in the system for nuisance algae and cyano.
However you must harvest it(take some out each week) or when it dies it releases the phosphates and nitrates back in your tank.
Cheato is purchased at just about every lfs---if not find someone close by to you and they will probably give you some.
I'm sure if you ever drop by my place I can give you more then enough to get you started.
Most reefers set up the cheato in a refugium but you can use the soap dishes in your display tank as I posted above. This keeps it out of the way of power heads and the fish can't really get at it that much.
A simple 25 watt or so energy saver bulb is all the light you need to grow it.
Aquarist007
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the cyano will be reduced but will reappear since you have not found out where or how nitrates and phosphates are being imported into your tank
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there is a ton of information on chaeto and refugiums on this thread
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1349443
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1349443
Capn : I test and find no phosphate in tank nor have I ever tested pos for nitrate.I find it very difficult to find a source for something that tests 0 . I can not test to see if something is working. I changed everything flow cleaned canister . The littlefeed can't be it. Well lets see if changing the flow direction lights out water change and cleaning rock best i could makes any difference.
Aquarist007
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That result is not unusual--in alot of cases the cyano and nuisance algae is consuming them as fast as they are being imported into the tank so you get zero readings
it is a very simple concept here---if you have cyano or nuisance algae then you have nitrates and or phosphates--other wise no fuel and the truck doesn't move
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that's why I suggested the soap dishes in the tank---basically that is a refugium in your tank for a buck:eek2:
A refugium is simply a container to keep chaeto in and raise copopods where they are protected from predators and can be introduced to the tank slowly
This is what I started with:
a plastic tote, some reef rubble and a light from home depot--40 dollars in total
which grew to this in less than two months
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only later when the amount of fish increased in my tank did I add the second fuge which was to be a remote deep sand bed.
Deep sand beds are excellent nitrate reducers as chaeto algae is an excellent reducers of both nitrates and phosphates
Deep sand beds are excellent nitrate reducers as chaeto algae is an excellent reducers of both nitrates and phosphates
