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[freeswimmingfish]

I seem to have a case of cyano bacteria, is Ultra Life Red Slime Remover a good option?

I am as confident as I can be that it's cyano. Red, goes away with lights out, comes back a few hours after lights back on. Trapped gas under the slime.

I've already decreased nutrients, sucked out the slime daily, done a 3 day black out. All with little to any results.
I used the RSR years ago, it worked well then, although I couldn't use my skimmer for about a month.

Are there other options?

TIA
Joe



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[Clownfish Chris]

I would dose 1ml/10gallos h2o2, put a wooden airstone in your sump so you get little bubbles in the display, and repeat lights out. Do this all at the same time. Run your skimmer very wet. You should have to dump the cup at least once a day. What you describe may or may not be cyano. This treatment worked well for me to treat dinos. It also wiped out what little cyano I had. If that doesn't work for you, go for the chemical treatment.

 

[FarmerTy]

I would dose 1ml/gallon h2o2, put a wooden airstone in your sump so you get little bubbles in the display, and repeat lights out. Do this all at the same time. Run your skimmer very wet. You should have to dump the cup at least once a day. What you describe may or may not be cyano. This treatment worked well for me to treat dinos. It also wiped out what little cyano I had. If that doesn't work for you, do for the chemical treatment.

Curious, did you mean 1ml/10 gallons of hydrogen peroxide to tank water? I've never done 1:1 like that but I think you'll have some disastrous results with the corals in the tank.

 

[Clownfish Chris]

Curious, did you mean 1ml/10 gallons of hydrogen peroxide to tank water? I've never done 1:1 like that but I think you'll have some disastrous results with the corals in the tank.

YES DO NOT DOSE 1:1

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[Fish Keeper82]

I have used Red Slime Remover with great success in removing Cyano..... however the problem is it made a major imbalance in the biodiversity of the tank that I had a Dinos infestation that lasted 8 months. I would take the Cyano over Dinos any day. I will never use Reds Slime Remover again!!!
I attribute my Cyano to heavy use of the Selcon addetive. I was using it way too much because my fish loved it so much.

 

[PSXerholic]

I seem to have a case of cyano bacteria, is Ultra Life Red Slime Remover a good option?

I am as confident as I can be that it's cyano. Red, goes away with lights out, comes back a few hours after lights back on. Trapped gas under the slime.

I've already decreased nutrients, sucked out the slime daily, done a 3 day black out. All with little to any results.
I used the RSR years ago, it worked well then, although I couldn't use my skimmer for about a month.

Are there other options?

TIA
Joe



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Not familiar with your tank.
FTS and some descripitve info?

I would bring the bacterial biology back on track to be good for the future and not just now.


Otherwise the Hydrogen treatment is safer then any red slime remover products.


-Andre

 

[freeswimmingfish]

Thanks all.
The tank is fairly new, about 11 weeks old. It's a 156g, PM 36+ sump, SRO 3000 skimmer, GFO.
135lbs live rock, 120 lbs sand.
I can't seem to post pics via tapatalk, so I'll try when I get home.
The h20h seems like the best option, I'll try that.


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[sneezebeetle]

I had a pretty bad case, but didnt want to add anything to my tank. So.....I created (3) 5 gl buckets of fresh salt water. Took each rock out and, using a baby tooth brush, brushed each rock till I was satisfied I got off as much as I could. Then dunked a few times in each bucket for a double rinse and put back in the tank. Then I took out the powerheads, skimmer, heater...any equipment I had in my tank and let them soak in white vinegar and scrubbed them clean followed by air dry. Once I did all this I put everything back in the tank and did a total black out for 5 days then over the next 2 weeks gradually increased the amount of light my tank got until I was back on schedule. That was about 6 or so months ago and it has never returned. During this time I did 10% water changes every 3 days. I dont know what size your tank is, but this all happened in my smaller tank. I understand this may be a bit much if you have a larger tank, but it worked for me. I should also say that I did not dose anything during this time (vitamins, minerals etc) and decreased the amount of food I fed.

Worked for me and I didnt have to add any chemicles to my tank.

What ever route you decide, good luck

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[PSXerholic]

Thanks all.
The tank is fairly new, about 11 weeks old. It's a 156g, PM 36+ sump, SRO 3000 skimmer, GFO.
135lbs live rock, 120 lbs sand.
I can't seem to post pics via tapatalk, so I'll try when I get home.
The h20h seems like the best option, I'll try that.


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Oh geez, that is then just your cycle and you have been a bit too quick with increasing bioload such as adding corals and fish etc. maybe !?
Get us a FTS and lets see the deal.

Best is not to use anything against it, if not a real issue.

I would like to give some good advise in case you go Hydrogen peroxide, but in general try to avoid any of those.

-Andre

 

[jqsquared]

I honestly wouldn't even worry too much with a new tank. Just leave it. Should correct itself without too much intervention.

 

[freeswimmingfish]

I know this can be part of the cycle process, that's why I didn't worry too much at first.
Last night I took a good look at the display and decided to move my MP40's. They were up pretty high. I lowed them to about 6-7" above the sandbed. I also turned them both up to about 80%. They were about 5" from the top and about 50%. The sand moves but doesn't blow around. I'm hoping this will help.
I also need to add some cheato to my fuge.


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[reefling]

I used chemiclean. It wiped out the cyano

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[PSXerholic]

I used chemiclean. It wiped out the cyano

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Yes Sir, it does wipe out all your bacteria, the good and the bad ones.....

-Andre

 

[Tangs]

Are you using t5 lighting? I used to have lots of Cyano when I was using t5 lighting. Now that my primary lighting is led I no longer have a bad case of the stuff. I do have a bit but rarely do water changes and gives tangs a nice light snack.

 

[freeswimmingfish]

With the MP-40's lower in the tank, the cyano doesn't seem to be coming back quiet as thick but it's still there. I'll do a water change this weekend with hopes to help. If it's still strongly present in a few weeks I'll try chemiclean.
For lights, I have 4 T5's (2 blue plus, Aqua Blue special, coral plus) and 2 250w MH (Reeflux 20,000k). All are about 9-10 weeks old.


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[Tangs]

Ya 4 t5's that is what I used to have but any mo. Bye bye Cyano

 

[freeswimmingfish]

The cyano wasn't all that effected by the lower power heads. It just grew in other spots. I found my dead spots for sure!
I put in chemiclean tonight. Skimmer went crazy, air pump with airstone in the sump.


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[PSXerholic]

The cyano wasn't all that effected by the lower power heads. It just grew in other spots. I found my dead spots for sure!
I put in chemiclean tonight. Skimmer went crazy, air pump with airstone in the sump.


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Even if I dislike the route you went, since I would have done the bacterial and biological method first,
keep us updated on any issues you do start to observe after the dosing.

THX and good luck and I hope it turns out well for you.

-Andre

 

[freeswimmingfish]

So far, the only issue is my skimmer constantly overflows. I have to leave it off, when I turn it on it spills over in less than 10 seconds.
The cyano is gone so now I can focus on the cause of it, not just the symptom:
Over feeding and flow.


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[RR-MAN]

What brand/model is the skimmer?