sweet noob question

[fatsolomon]

how do i get rid of red slime in my reef. its a 75 reef plumbed together with another 75 fowler. theres a skimmer and liverock in the 45 sump with the pumps and heaters. in the reef there is about 150lb dry reefbone that i cured like 6 monthes ago and in the fowler there is about 30lb dry reefbone same stuff. for fish in the "reef" (theres one mushroom rock and a bunch of little feather dusters) i have 2 pj cardinals and 3 false percs 2 black and white and 1 reg. in the fowler there is a 14" snowflake eel and a 6" porcupine puffer. i feed all the fish at the same time every few days. and i feed only enough. for lighting i have a 2x65w pc strip and a regular 10000k flourescent single strip. theres 2 powerheads in the reef as well. as far as i know the water is testing fine. i dont get it.
if there is any other detail that i forgot that will help let me know.

 

[thefishofdoom]

u can add a cleaner crew.

 

[TankBuster]

I think the puffer would eat the clean up crew. You can use red slime remover.

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/produ...4RS&ref=3312&subref=AA&GCID=C12188x003&ctt=60

 

[Justin_James]

Well i'm guessing what your talking about is cyano bacteria. It is often confused with algae. You can get rid of it by increasing your flow, and lowering your temperature a little. It also helps to pick some out by hand to start the cleaning process.

 

[Zoodiver]

Manually removing it is the best. I use an airline tube as a siphon to clean detailed areas. It seems to work well.
If it is indeed algae, try increasing you calcium level to around 450-500. That will help choke out the algae in addition to sucking it out of the tank.

 

[UnderwaterGirl]

another good thing to try is use a turkey baster. Spray water on the areas to get the algae into the water. The filters will hopefully get rid of it once it is in the water.

 

[TankBuster]

Manually removing it is the best. I use an airline tube as a siphon to clean detailed areas. It seems to work well.
If it is indeed algae, try increasing you calcium level to around 450-500. That will help choke out the algae in addition to sucking it out of the tank.

I agree with the calcium idea, I have been using more calcium in my tank to help grow some coraline and it helped immensly with the cyano. Good call.

 

[fatsolomon]

what about this calcium? is it the same as kalkwasser? what kind of calcium should i use?

 

[DeLgAdO]

I agree with the calcium idea, I have been using more calcium in my tank to help grow some coraline and it helped immensly with the cyano. Good call.

coraline algae is beautiful

buts its a pain in the ass when it starts growing on the glass, LOL

 

[Justin_James]

coraline algae is beautiful

buts its a pain in the ass when it starts growing on the glass, LOL

Yes it will grow on the glass but one thing that looks very nice is when you let the back pane of glass get covered in the coraline and then corals will even grow off it. I seen a tank with yellow polyps covering the whole back pane of glass and it was beautyfull. As long as you pass your magnet along the front and side panes of glass every couple day you will keep the coraline from growing on it.