Ultralife Red Slime Remover - Reef Safe?

Swirlygig

Swirlygig

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I have read conflicting stories...many are scaring me about red slime remover...

I have a few corals RTN'ing for unkown reasons (4 of my nice Monti's), most what I think was a stray result of bad bulbs that I recently used and had to remove...I have some of my other SPS looking really happy...not sure what to do and dont' want to lose any more and hopefully save some of my monti's!

Has anyone had bad or good luck using this on here?

Is it safe for Clams?
 
Red slime is a bacteria. Red slime remover kills bacteria, where you run into problems is in the fact that Red slime remover doesn't distinguish between cyanobacteria, and the bacteria that cycle ammonia through nitrite, to Nitrate, and finally Nitrogen. I used it, and sent my system into a new cycle.
 
i would recommend the boyd product. also follow instructions to the tee and always use a airstone. the real question is why do you have it? you check the denitrator lately?
 
well I have the green slime...I am more or less trying to stop the RTN on some of my sps mounted to some nice size rocks :(
 
if there is rtn on the corals then any algea will attach to it easy. remove the dead parts and that should slow it down. if it's really low than how low? using that denitrator i know it can go out of wack if you don't test it on a regular basis. what is the tds coming out of the rodi?
 
TDS is 2...nitrates do not register...All my corals are realllly happy except these few monti's...I think this is latent from messing with my lights and the bad bulbs...I think they toasted and still could not handle the change...i dunna...every other coral in my tank is like weeeheeee except those...ugh
 
I tried a fun concoction dip i made...:) Might as well if i am going to lose all the rtn'ing corals lol...

Furan 2 with a bit of the red slime remover and did a lugol's flush...prob spelled disaster, but tomorrow I will see lol...

I superglued around the deadspots to see if this would stop some of the rtn'''''

wish me luck...
 
I do have some, but I heard it has stopped RTN...I know stupid idea, but was worth a try maybe? I just don't think it will help in the long run...I wanted to inquire before I did something stupid...
 
RTN is usually from stings, an infection resulting to damage to coral tissue (this is pretty broad) and in some species polyp bailout, this usually from exposure to something very bad chemical or otherwise...

Are your montis just being stripped away or are there bleached parts surfacing? Describing this die off behavior may help.

Are you 100% sure you don't have monti nudis hiding underneath the coral that could have come in undetected somehow? Most dips wont stop them let alone their eggs and they work pretty fast. Inspection at night with a flashlight is the best way to spot them.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13453590#post13453590 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chrisstie
RTN is usually from stings, an infection resulting to damage to coral tissue (this is pretty broad) and in some species polyp bailout, this usually from exposure to something very bad chemical or otherwise...

Are your montis just being stripped away or are there bleached parts surfacing? Describing this die off behavior may help.

Are you 100% sure you don't have monti nudis hiding underneath the coral that could have come in undetected somehow? Most dips wont stop them let alone their eggs and they work pretty fast. Inspection at night with a flashlight is the best way to spot them.
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good call ;)
 
I have used it a few time in a 92 gallon, full reef tank....could never get the flow right in that tank....and it worked great and never caused any issues. Just make sure your skimmer is off and realize that when you turn it on, your skimmer will go crazy.
 
I believe the key issue here is my lights like i said...I do not have nudi's for sure...

I have many happy SPS that are not even impacted...

I put some bad lights on my tank...The corals that are now perishing were the ones that hurt the worst with the new lights I put on...I guess they are just now showing signs...I will check my coral at night again to make sure...

The skin blistered on one coral and when I hit it with a baster...It just blew off!

The other two are slowly RTNing...skin peeling off...
 
Hmm skin blistering off/peeling back like that probably isn't nudibranchs or any other pest but its probably best to check at night *just in case*. Have you researched STN? When the tissue erodes slowly its slow instead of rapid tissue necrosis. The causes are similar but not always the same.

If its just your montis I'm not sure what to say. Could they have caught some salt build up that maybe got knocked down into the tank and settled in a spot and burned the tissue?

I've never heard of lighting pulling the skin off corals unless it was super duper crazy strong maybe and just fried them. When you say bad lights were they the wrong color? type? etc?

Sorry for all the questions but this is quite the mystery!
 
I believe the UV glass was no good...It was a made in china bulb, so who knows...The UV was really strong! took the skin right off my frogspawn, which has since recovered btw...

crazy sad story on my part...ugh!
 
I'd suggest the lights-out method if you have red slime; but I'd also suggest if you have any green bonafide algae you might have a phosphate problem, which can lead to ghosty problems with sps...
Sometimes too, light combined with other problems can magnify the effect, as eg light combined with high temp, etc.
A phosphate test won't help you because if you can read ANY phosphate at all that isn't bound in algae, it means the phosphate is really, really high.
A general help might be a fuge...
 
are you running your denitrator affluent through a phosphate reactor? you might consider doing so! usually the water coming out of the sulfur denitrator has some phosphates....but if you hook another reactor with phosban.....it should null that!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13450542#post13450542 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DgenR8
Red slime is a bacteria. Red slime remover kills bacteria, where you run into problems is in the fact that Red slime remover doesn't distinguish between cyanobacteria, and the bacteria that cycle ammonia through nitrite, to Nitrate, and finally Nitrogen. I used it, and sent my system into a new cycle.
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This explains my tank going into a cycle.... I used this stuff and it works but unfortunately sent my tank into another mini cycle.
 
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