Red Hair Algae

[bckane]

Tanks been up for about 2 months, 1 damsel bunch of snails and 2 peppermint shrimp. Starting to get spots of brown/red hair algae on the sand bed. Im using r/o water
Please help clean up

 

[Anonymous]

Unless I'm mistaken looks like cyano.. Try sucking it out with a turkey baster.

 

[Anonymous]

It is cyano, a blue-green algae (I know... it is neither blue nor green)

 

[Anonymous]

It's really to be expected in a new tank. Some fighting or queen conchs will probably help.

 

[Anonymous]

It's really to be expected in a new tank. Some fighting or queen conchs will probably help.

Didn't even think about that... - One or two for a 29 you think Dan?

 

[Anonymous]

Probably one would be fine. Queens get big, but they go vertical more than fighting conchs when small, which is mostly a good thing.

 

[bckane]

You know it funny, went I turn the lights out for a hour or 2 the slime goes away. But after awhile it comes back with the light on..........anyhow did buy some chemi-clean today and going to dose it in the morning

 

[Mihai]

Don't put chemicals in your water. That will only treat the effect. Cyano comes with dirty water (lots of nutrients - do you have a skimmer? what?) and/or poor water movement.

M.

 

[nice1bruva]

i recently had a breakout of cyno tha first appeared in my fuge.
took a weeks vacation and the day before that i set the tank up ready for it...cleaned skimmer...water change...cleaned auto top-up etc.
whilst in the sump i must have nudged the timer that controlls the fuge's lighting and it was off all week.
when i came home from vacation my tank and sump was TOTALLY free of the cyno that was taking over my tank before i left.

:roll: :roll: :roll:

makes you think??????

:roll: :roll: :roll:

 

[bckane]

Don't put chemicals in your water. That will only treat the effect. Cyano comes with dirty water (lots of nutrients - do you have a skimmer? what?) and/or poor water movement.

M.

I do 5% water change per week, CPR bak-pak 2r skimmer and MJ-1200....also have a HOB filter (minus filter-just carbon) for water movement. Im running my lights 7 hours per day