Help! Red Slime heartache

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enwelz

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I have a 30gal With live rock(15lbs, need more), live sand, 2 clowns, an anemone, a snowflake eel, and various snails. I have tried keeping diamond watchmans but they jump out of the smallest gaps where my skimmer return overflow is, and I assume its being chased out by the eel. What else can I get that will help to curb a red slime outbreak on my sand? My nitrates are high and my nitrites are very close to 0. I am doing regular 20% waterchanges now, trying to cut the nitrates, at about 20ppm this morning. I am pretty sure thats why it is growing, but does anyone have a species recomendation that will dine on it aswell?

Thanks
 
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FLESHY

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Jan 7, 2006
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Hard to find stuff that will eat red slime.

Best solution is big water changes with high quality h2o and salt mix.

Better flow + clean substrate + manual removal of what you have now and what you will get in the future are your best solutions.
 
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shua71

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I used a small airline tube and sucked out as much of the slime as I could and then did a 25% water change daily. After 3 days it was all gine
 
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Gprime

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dont do daily water changes, that can cause nitrate problems, shock the tank, and possibly cause another cycle
 
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Exodon Man

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Put some extra powerheads in the tank. Red slime algae (realy a bacteria) will only survive in areas of low water movement.

It worked for my nano.
 
Weylin

Weylin

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I've use the ATF... That worked great in removing annoying algae from the DT and brought the nitrates down to under 10 from 50...
 
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