Just wanted to see if anyone has used UltraLife Red Slime Remover.
Just dosed my tank last night. I have an outbreak on my sandbed. So far it looks like some of it has gone away after 24 hours but there is still a substantial amount of cyano bacteria on the sanbed.
I've decreased feeding to 1xday and have upped my water changes from once a month to 2 x a month to now once a week.
My system is a 70g with ASMG2 skimmer, and have a large YT, small hippo, two false perc clowns, some leathers, a cleaner shrimp, sandsifting star, and nassarius snails.
For flow there are two seio 620's and an eheim 1260 for the return at half throttle.
20g sump with phoszorb.
Dosing pickling lime on auto top off for the last few weeks but recently stopped.
Nitrates still at 5ppm, salinity=1.025, temp=77-79. no noticeable ammonia, or nitrites.Should test for phosphates though.
I think the cause was deadspots and overfeeding.
Also lights are just normal output fluorescents. Not investing in any lights ,although I have a PFO HQI 250W pendant that is sitting around, until my 120 gets set up. Bulb is six months old as long as the tank has been running.
I'll post pics in a few minutes.
Question is: How long should I wait until I turn the skimmer back on? I'm due for a water change today and just planned to siphon out the red slime on the sand bed and turn the skimmer back on.
Just dosed my tank last night. I have an outbreak on my sandbed. So far it looks like some of it has gone away after 24 hours but there is still a substantial amount of cyano bacteria on the sanbed.
I've decreased feeding to 1xday and have upped my water changes from once a month to 2 x a month to now once a week.
My system is a 70g with ASMG2 skimmer, and have a large YT, small hippo, two false perc clowns, some leathers, a cleaner shrimp, sandsifting star, and nassarius snails.
For flow there are two seio 620's and an eheim 1260 for the return at half throttle.
20g sump with phoszorb.
Dosing pickling lime on auto top off for the last few weeks but recently stopped.
Nitrates still at 5ppm, salinity=1.025, temp=77-79. no noticeable ammonia, or nitrites.Should test for phosphates though.
I think the cause was deadspots and overfeeding.
Also lights are just normal output fluorescents. Not investing in any lights ,although I have a PFO HQI 250W pendant that is sitting around, until my 120 gets set up. Bulb is six months old as long as the tank has been running.
I'll post pics in a few minutes.
Question is: How long should I wait until I turn the skimmer back on? I'm due for a water change today and just planned to siphon out the red slime on the sand bed and turn the skimmer back on.
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