Coraline

[sostoudt]

oh noes...im guessing its from me lowering the salinity over the past 2 days treating ick with hyposalinity. Changing small amounts of water with tap probly didnt help. Whats the best solution to this?

depends on your definition of best

the greatest way that benefits your tank is remove the underlying causes, by limiting excess nutrients in the tank, through water changes, better husbandry, and siphoning the slime out.

the quickest and easiest way to rid yourself of cyano, is with a special commercial antibiotic, either chemiclean or red slime remover, theres probably a couple others too. this doesnt treat the underlying causes only the cyano. this may make the underlying causes worse by releasing all the nutrients stored in the cyano, but also gives you a chance to remove those nutrient through water changes. but with out husbandry changes more then likely your problems will manifest themselves in another form, probably algae growth. with all that said i have used these type products before they work great, and are a excellent way to expedite the removal of cyano after realising and fixing your husbandry problems.

 

[RyanP]

nutrients as in nitrates? or as phosphates from my tap? I rarely go anywhere over 10 -15 ppm nitrates before i do a water change.

 

[BigLinc]

siphon it out asap and do about a 20% water change with ro water every 2 or 3 days, tap water is bad period

 

[mic209]

that is def not coraline...

 

[mr.reef24]

check your phosphate's and how often you feeding?

mr.reef24