I'm doing it

[bizzleb01]

I can't beat the red cyano. I've been beaten by it; about a four month battle and I've tried everything. I'm going to get red slime remover tomorrow to try and get rid of it.

 

[shrimpi]

oh that really sucks for you. Did you try to increase your flow? (I know this may be futile at this point) but I only had red slime once and it was in a tiny tank (5gal?) where I had almost no flow.
Anyway, keep us updated. Make sure you read the instructions, I hope it doesnt kill anything else in your tank. I hate chemicals.. even though sometimes you have to use them
Good Luck
Jess

 

[bizzleb01]

Yeah, I've increased flow, sucked out the cyano with water changes, fed less, changed my sock everyday, moved the sand around more, all parameters are good.
I just don't know what else to do and why it's still here. So, yes, I'm going to use chemicals as a last resort even though I don't want to.

 

[shrimpi]

Im sure youve given all this info before but how old is the tank, and what kind of filtration are you running?

 

[markeo99]

let us know I bet you have a hair algae outbreak after using the chem fix

 

[anonome]

Can you post a full shot pic of the tank? Have you tried scrubbing the rock?

 

[ledzep fan]

I have found personally that the red slime remover does truly work. I have you used it on a 75 Softies Reef and My 120 soon to be reef. No problems or complaints here.

 

[n8ball2013]

what is your phosphates level.

 

[bizzleb01]

The tank is about eight or nine months old and I'm using a sock filter and a Euroreef skimmer.
My phosphates are at zero.

 

[gotcrabs?]

I have used red slime remover in two of my tanks with no ill effects, other than my corals being a little aggitated.

 

[bluetang66]

I have also usd it with when I was at wit's end with no bad effects.

 

[bizzleb01]

Well, it seems to have removed most of it and nothing looks to be unhappy except my duncan. I'm going to do a water change because the water looks really weird and then tomorrow use it once again to remove the rest of it.

 

[ilovemytank]

Originally Posted by markeo99
http:///forum/post/2830360
let us know I bet you have a hair algae outbreak after using the chem fix
Why did you say this ? I'm very curious of the knowledge behind this statement. I have used it several times with never an ill effect and I just used it last week and I having a huge problem with hair algea breakout. I've never had hair algea before. Of course at the same time I added a metal halide system and thought this is the problem. I'm currently running for a week on just room lighting while I work tweleve hour days and next weekend when I have four days off in a row was going to take out as much as possible and do some rock scrubbing. Any way let me know where that statement comes from.