Red Slime & green stuff w/ pics, need help

manny222

manny222

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Sorry for the long post but wanted everybody to know the story has to give a educated SOLUTION. Can't get rid of red slime,keep doing water changes and scrubbing of rocks under tap water, comes back really fast w/in a day, and also now have green stuff not hair.55 gal w/ 30#s LVR and some old trace RK tank started 11/14 after my friends house elec burned up, so its farily aged FIGI stuff. Tank cycled fast, no prblems for the first mnth then it started. checked the levals yesterday and they were:
Nitrate 0, nitrite .1, AMN. .1 PH 8.4, PHOS. hold on to your hat 1.5 (very high huh) bought a poly filter have not put it in yet. I think that the Coral beauty that I put in a mnth ago had ICK so I started HYPO, salinity down to 1.10 for past 2 weeks PH good as you see. Just ordered new pc light bulbs 108 watts, the unit has set unused for 3 years, 405 FLUVAL two 160 gal HR p heads and a Bacpak protein SKIMMER, and just ordered another PHead.feed brine every other day, may have been over feeding the first mnth but have since stopped that. Lights on only 5 hrs day. What can I do. http://i12.tinypic.com/495y8pc.jpg http://i12.tinypic.com/44v4ly8.jpg http://i12.tinypic.com/44v4ly8.jpg
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bs21

bs21

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i know higher flow in areas where growing will get rid of it....over feeding can also be cause of it. the green stuff in pic on center rocks is that what you were talking about?....if so is it hard b/c it could be coraline algea?
 
kayak385

kayak385

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Originally Posted by manny222
thanks how did you do it?
well i used the "Insert Image" button. but if you want to just copy and paste links to pics in quick reply use brackets [] with IMG between the brackets, at the beginning of the link, and /IMG between the brackets, at the end of the link.
example:
[ IMG]www.link.com[ /IMG] WITHOUT the space.
 
kayak385

kayak385

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the only other thing i would suggest is to resize you pictures smaller, to about 500x500 pixels so that you can upload them faster and through the manage attachment function at the bottom of the Advanced Reply/Post page of a thread.
 
stanlalee

stanlalee

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I dont see anything excessive about that algae growth on a fairly new tank. Typical of rocks/coral skeletons not already covered in coralline algae in a new system. flow and good water quality helps but in time that wont be a problem. just keep manualy removing it for now. You have a mild case, your substrate and most of your rock/decor is relatively slime/algae free.
 
sly

sly

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Originally Posted by manny222
thanks how did you do it?
When you upload an image just highlight the text that you see highlighted in this image... Copy that link and then simply post the whole thing in this forum. Then the pic will display.

If you want to see how it looks then just hit the "quote" button on my post here. It will then show you exactly what I typed in to get the image to display.
Your tank does not look that bad. I have a small 10 gallon tank that I consider to be doing well and it has more algae than that. Just give it some time and when you can, get a good cleanup crew to eat the algae. If your algae gets worse then get a phosphate test kit. Phosphates seem to be probably the biggest cause of algae in tanks.
 
poniegirl

poniegirl

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If you still have ammonia and nitrites you are still cycling. Those are odd readings.
Is your test kit new? After 3 months you should be seeing nitrates, not amm. and nitrites.
We don't have to
 
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