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[shining]

:help: Hey i need to no y i am getting red algae in all my crushed coral in like 3 to4 days every were?

 

[mackeytayl]

again, I'm no expert but are you doing regular water changes? If so, what kind of water are you using? Lights too?

 

[shining]

All dist water and all saltwater lights good for coral i think thats what i am told anyway the light is called power glo and the other one isaqoa glo .

 

[shining]

Is this red slime algae bad for the fish?

 

[nacl-man]

Could be diatoms?? New tanks experience this when they are first setup, it is normal.

 

[shining]

The tank has been running for about 6 months at least... and this has just been going on for about a month and a half now.

 

[shining]

What are diatoms?

 

[nacl-man]

In that case it could be cyno... which is not really an algae but a bacteria... lights giving out the wrong spectrum (or lights that are older... they need to be replaced every so often even if they don't burn out because they lose their potency).
Do a search on Red Slime and you will get some good info.
I would do small water changes regularly... like at least once a week, maybe every three or four days and see if that takes care of it.
I had to do small water changes every week to get rid of mine... i'm still battling it but have gotten the upper hand (finally).
HTH.

 

[robchuck]

Yep, sounds alot like cyno. Do lots of small water changes and try increasing your flow to prevent the stuff from building up.

 

[shining]

Thanks. Yes I have noticed that there is less of it growing on the one side of the tank now... there is more water flow over on the one side. So I guess it is just settling on the side that has less flow??

 

[shining]

The two fish i hve in my tank, they are some sort of chromis i think, have ich on their fins. Do we use copper or hypo to get rid of this?

 

[barry cuda]

If you do use copper, whatever you do, DON'T use it in the display tank. It adsorbs onto every surface in the tank and you'll never be able to keep inverts in there again. If you feel confident about your ability to maintain salinity at a given level, hypo is the way to go. Either way, it's better to do it in a hospital tank to preserve the invertebrate life.

 

[shining]

Also...what is Brooklynella, and what is it caused by? We had 2 perc clowns, they died now, but that kind of looked like what they had. Before they died they were starting to lay on the bottom of the tank, and they would kind of twitch sometimes as they were swimming. What is that all about?

 

[shining]

We have only tried quick cure, but it has not worked.

 

[barry cuda]

Brooklynella is a parasitic protozoan that is common in wild-caught clownfish but also infects other marine fishes. It's lethal if not treated. The drawing in The New Marine Aquarist looks like irregular white blotches on the side of the fish. I would be able to give better detail, except I can't find my copy of Wilkerson's Clownfishes book.