chemi-clean
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Sugar Magnolia
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Keep in mind that unless you address the underlying issues - excess nutrents/phosphates, the cyano will eventually return. Been there done that, battling it again. :evil:
fwiw, Ultralife Red Slime Remover does the same thing.
fwiw, Ultralife Red Slime Remover does the same thing.
Thanks sugar .
We have cut feedings to 2 x a week and I am doing massive portion control with pellets , the fish still seem happy and healthy , I did a 20% h20 change on monday ( I think) and will do another today and then the regular on sunday , that should help in reducing the underlying cause , from this point on once it is under control the feedings will go to every other day along with portion control :mrgreen:
We have cut feedings to 2 x a week and I am doing massive portion control with pellets , the fish still seem happy and healthy , I did a 20% h20 change on monday ( I think) and will do another today and then the regular on sunday , that should help in reducing the underlying cause , from this point on once it is under control the feedings will go to every other day along with portion control :mrgreen:
Sugar Magnolia
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Sounds like a good plan. Do you have a fuge in place too?
unfortunately no I don't I was gonna try it but failed at doing so I currently have some salt mixing and saturday I will tear the tank down scrub all the live rock and place in fresh mixed water with a power head and a filter to remove any pieces that float off , I will then scrub the tank and equipment down place in new sand and seed with 2 cups old sand and place aprox 1/2-3/4 the old water back in keeping the old filter pad I will then reaquascape and filter for a bit then rinse out the pad and replace and then add the fish back after they drip acclimate for about 2 hours along with the corals then from there I will try to handle it as a largish water change ...... I am still in the planning phase so as to make this go smooth at very least I will have a power head in the holding tank with a filter so as to not get any fish that stress , last time I rescaped the fish had ammonia burns from my failure from adding a filter I just plain forgot and did not think that it would take as long to do . So I am doing an equipment check tomorrow to make sure the stuff works and then saturday tearing down then rebuild it ... I will be looking in the future for a fuge :mrgreen:
skank-a-holic
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I used it on my 75 gal. and it worked like a charm... however... it was only a band aid to the problem. Just FYI!sadielynn said:
skank-a-holic
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Thanks!skipm said:
skank-a-holic
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Glad to hear :drink:sadielynn said:
mikeguerrero
Active Member
Sadie,
In my thread evolution, I document the Red Slime Remover, it works great as I have heard the chemi-clean has killed clams.
Since I'm a clam owner I went with this product instead of the chemi-clean and my clams were okay and the slime was killed.
Mike G
In my thread evolution, I document the Red Slime Remover, it works great as I have heard the chemi-clean has killed clams.
Since I'm a clam owner I went with this product instead of the chemi-clean and my clams were okay and the slime was killed.
Mike G
Mike even tho I dont have a clam and probably never will , just curious to know and it may also help those making a decision on what to use does it have the same ramifications as copper in other words once used will it leach back into the system and eventually kill a clam, like copper would do to inverts ?
EDGRAY
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i know that i shouldnt have a clam cause they need alot of lightning so .. but i used like 2 times the chemi clean i used it first in my 1st month of having my tank to get rid of the red slime .. i clean all the parts were the red slime was then i used it like directions and then 2 days later a did my water change and didnt see the red slime again then after a month or so i had some black slime or other kind of algie so i did the same as the red slime and havent see them again.. sofar and i placed a regular clam a purple one but no maxima a think a month and 1/2 and is doing fine and opening fully like always i called it big lips cause really opens alot and it attached in to the LR the second day of having it and i havent move it since ( and always running the 3rd part of polyfilter and i change it every 2-3 weeks) i hope this info helps
:cry: :cry: and im sorry that i couldnt resist of having a clam guys :sad: :sad: but ill do my best to keep it alive and hopefully i will mod my lights soon
:cry: :cry: and im sorry that i couldnt resist of having a clam guys :sad: :sad: but ill do my best to keep it alive and hopefully i will mod my lights soon