Red Slime

[NORTHBAY(707)]

I've have it tried black "something" snails there not working. It started out as a small patch. I pulled what I could out added these black "something" snails that you can get at CAESAR'|S,but know it's all over and the snails seem to be dying or something is eating them.

My water numbers are good, but I can not keep my nitrate levels down at all even with water changes it stays up about 80-100 ppm. I've talk to people about this couple said it's life with a FO tank, other's say it's the filter I'm using.

Can My Nitrate level be a cause of this red slime?

I'm in the process of changing over to wet/dry system filter on My tank
just waiting for the money to do it.

The 75g tank I set up a month or month 1/2 ago is doing great all numbers are at 0 and it has a wet/dry system on it. I test My water ever
other day.

Any suggestions would be great.






:smokin: later.

[coralfarmer]

The red slime is definately from the organics(nitrates) in the water. Check your Alk. make sure it is between 8dkh-12dkh.
If you are desperate there is a stuff called chemi-clean from boyd enterprises that works really well you probably could find it on-line. Do you have a protein skimmer or a U.V. sterilizer?

[northbay-reefer]

Northbay, the wetdry will not solve your red slime problem. It will contribute to more nitrate down the road.

your problem is tie to your system not able to controll the amount of nutrients. two things that you will need to do:

1, feed less (you are probably over feeding your fish)...... putting in less means you don't have to spent more money to take it out

2, Export the nutrient.... by using a good protein skimmer. And more water changes. Plus, your system is still young and it will need time to build up enough bacteria to controll the waste that your fishies produce.

I have used the chemi clean product and it does work, but it is a temporary solution.

So for now don't add too many fishes, feed less, skim skim skim ... and water changes.