Red blanket of stuff HELP!!!
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mr. limpid
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It is red slim alge and yes its not a true alge nor is good. You can syphon it out it will come off in sheets and then I use a close hanger with a nylon over it to filter the water and pour the clean water back in. I have the problem when my protein skimer isnt working properlly. I hope this helps.
garnet13aj
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cyanobacteria is a phase in most new tanks, although it can come back at any time. The best way to combat it is to increase water flow and use RO/DI water.
garnet13aj
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It's best to fix the problem rather than treat the symptom or it will just come back. To increase water flow you are going to have to add 1 or 2 more powerheads and for the moment I would suggest pointing them directly at the disaster areas.
autofreak44
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ive never had a cyanobacteria problem, but my guess is that it feeds on a mix of detritus and phosphates. i would say make shure you are not overfeeding your fish, as well as running some carbon and phosban in your filter. and like garnet said get the powerheads.
also if you could give us your tank paramaters (size, stocklist, chemichal tests etc.) that would help us rule out any obvious reasons
also if you could give us your tank paramaters (size, stocklist, chemichal tests etc.) that would help us rule out any obvious reasons
lost_snow
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I have a 55 with an overflow. 55lb of live rock, 40lbs of sand, 2 clowns, 1 BTA, golby, foxface, shrip, 3 turbo snails, 3 snails, 6 Hermit crabs, sail fish, long nose butterfly, my amonia is 0, ph is 8.0 buffer is not as high as it used to be but still in the good range (dont remember the number) and nitrait is at 20
michaeltx
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yes there is but when useing it you also risk the chance of NUKING your tank. I do not suggest you use it. some have good success with it and others loose their entire tank. Its called chemi-pure if you want to get more info on it though. ** as you can tell I do not recomend it. The bacteria is there for some reason need to find the root cause or it will return and it turns into a viscios cycle of treatments.
mike
mike
michaeltx
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well in general this is considered safe BUT people have nuked there tanks with it. I assume that this is what they are talking about though. Its better just to increase the water flow and and get to the bottom of the underlaying reason that its there. 90% of the time its a flow issue namely not enough of it.
Mike
Mike
lost_snow
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I was also told that if there arent enough things stiring up the sand that it can start this, im thinking of getting a sand sifting sea star or a sand blenny. Im only worried cuz i had a pretty orange seastar that died a week after i got it, so i dont know if the sand siffting one would live
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goodcook
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yes dont use cempure i mg a pet store and we took it off the shelf
nigerbang
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Originally Posted by lost_snow
I have a 55 gallon, all i know is i have live sand, full of shells and all. I upped my skimmer but i dont know if its working, nothing is flowing into the collection bin, and its all the way up. before i cleaned it if i had it up high tons of bubble would flow into it.
Live Sand...Full of shells?....Crushed Coral..?
I have a 55 gallon, all i know is i have live sand, full of shells and all. I upped my skimmer but i dont know if its working, nothing is flowing into the collection bin, and its all the way up. before i cleaned it if i had it up high tons of bubble would flow into it.
Live Sand...Full of shells?....Crushed Coral..?