red slime

[deepreeftank]

i got some bad advice and mixed tap water with my salt mix i have had my live rocks in teh tank.. tank has cycled and then i got hit with red slime.. i put 3 treatments of slime away into and put phos-gaurd into my sump it seems to have gone away for now.. but what can i do to eliminate it?

brandon

 

[Goldmoon]

If you used tap water to fill the tank, the red slime is a step you could not avoid. We did the same mistake (tap water) and got stuck with it. After the tank cycled we did water changes (with RO water) to lower the nitrates and to remove phosphate. We also add some scarlet reef hermit crabs. They are good red slime eater. Try to keep your nitrates low, (water changes), the slime should eventually go away and should not come back.

 

[SPC]

Brandon, don't feel to bad, I used a top of the line 5 stage R/O D/I unit and still got it. My mistake was over feeding the sand bed. I got it down to a manageable situation by siphoning out what I could get to, cranking up my skimmer, carbon, and stopped feeding the sand bed for a while.
Gold, I have never heard of hermits eating red slime.
Steve

[ August 07, 2001: Message edited by: SPC ]

 

[Goldmoon]

Then I should start propagating them and sell them!

No jokes every night they would get out of their hiding place and munch on the red slime. I had read on Flying Fish Express that red leg hermits had been reported eating red slime, so I went to my LFS and ask for them but they sold me those scarlet reef hermits. But I swear, they did the job!
I guess I got lucky then.

[ August 08, 2001: Message edited by: Goldmoon ]