RED SLIME HELP

[rick2010]

Recently I have been having serious issues with red slime. I was told that it was most likely from overfeeding so I cut back and now I am positive I am not overfeeding. All parameters are normal. It is a stock 24 gal jbj nano cube. all corals, fish, and inverts are thriving. is there something I'm missing?
What do I need to do to eliminate this stuff?

 

[Anonymous]

How old is your tank?
How deep is your sand bed?
Where did the sand/rock come from?

 

[codyjp]

i used to get red slime a lot. I then added some Chaeto algae to the back chamber of my aquapod as well as a small light and I have not seen even a hint of the red slime. Wither or not they are directly related I don't know but I sure think so!

 

[brandon4291]

Just so that you would have another type of action plan that works, but possibly only temporarily, I'd let you know of Chemi Clean from Boyd Enterprises...it will melt all red slime but honestly in the tanks I used it, it just kept coming back. At least this will give you some type of quick result, but the aftermath is up to your husbandry techniques and the realm of random biological events that you may not be able to control, even with water changes / feeding changes/ filter pad changes the only thing that ever helped mine was to start over -with- these husbandry adjustments and hope the biological randoms don't get me. So far after almost two years my last reefbowl is still alive with no reds, long after my first one developed red slime in the same environment this one didn't! <- randoms worked in my favor so far. Boyds will burn it out, but keeping it out is like playing poker, nothing is for sure, but you can develop influences in your favor

 

[Anonymous]

Recently I have been having serious issues with red slime. I was told that it was most likely from overfeeding so I cut back and now I am positive I am not overfeeding. All parameters are normal. It is a stock 24 gal jbj nano cube. all corals, fish, and inverts are thriving. is there something I'm missing?
What do I need to do to eliminate this stuff?

Cyano can get its nitrogen from nitrogen gas vrs the organic ammonia/nitrates. So what can happen is your tank runs fine, looks great for many months then you finally get nitrates down.

And just when you think you got everything figured out here comes the cyano. All over the sand and rocks.

What could be happening is right on the surface of the sand and rocks there is nitrogen gas, phosphates (which the algae is no long consuming), carbon dioxide and light. The perfect conditions for cyano.

One thing that can be done is to simply kill the lights for 2-3 days. The cyano dies off returning organic nitrates to the system. Then the algae has the nutrients it needs when the lights come back on.

One local did that and was surprised how effective it was. But 2-3 weeks after the first blackout, the cyano came back. So he did it again. That time it did not come back.

He and many others now have a 2-3 day blackout each month as standard operation.


my .02

 

[brandon4291]

I think that's a fair technique for working with it, wish I would have thought to try it before I gave up and shut down...anything without chemicals is definately worth a go