Chemi-Clean

[leakyfaucet]

So out of desperation and frustration, i finally bought a pack of chemi clean (damn these things are expensive!!!) How long til i start seeing effects? I treated my tank about 32 hours ago and the red slime algae stuff's still there. I'll treat again after 48 hours and hope it helps... Other than dumping the little spoonful in the tank and aerating, is there anything else i should be doing?

 

[Jennie]

Remember to turn your protein skimmer off and remove any carbon that you are running in your system for the first 24 hours.

Any time that I have had to use it, I've followed up with a water change as per instructions.

 

[leakyfaucet]

Yeah the water change will happen, i just didn't want to change the water only to have to treat again shortly after and then change the water again. The instruction said treat again within 48 hours if necessary and it seems my tank necessitates it, so i'll dose again in 48 and then change water. crossing my fingers that it works haha

 

[Jennie]

We're crossing our fingers for you as well

:mrgreen:

 

[sadielynn]

Leaky
this can cause some irritation to the zoas , however not likely , I would use cautiously and treat the real reason to the red slime that is high nutrients in the water column , once they are reduced you will notice that the red slime is starting to disappear. I did one treatment then watched the feedings as I did not want to have an over abundance of left overs in the tank , your tank is also quite new and your tank needs to adapt and get some bacteria built up this will also help with the exports of over nutrients , perhaps someone could offer some advice on micro algea that would help you out some :mrgreen:

 

[leakyfaucet]

I currently have a tennis ball sized clump of Microalgae (Chaeto). Any other way of building up bacteria? Don't they have some sort of commercial product that contains bacterial cultures? I forget what it's called but I saw it at the store when i was there. Think that might help?

 

[sadielynn]

if you are speaking of a product called cycle skip it it will cause algea in salt tanks time is really what you need also there is a product called birospeara that MikeG on here swears by :mrgreen:

 

[skipm]

Products like Cycle and Biospira are for adding to your nitrifying bacteria which you already have, otherwise you would have ammonia and ntrite readings >0. Proper feeding and water changes along with cleaning mechanical media (if present) and you should begin to see a decline in the cyano.

 

[leakyfaucet]

Chemi clean has not worked, even after two consecutive treatments. I'm beginning to suspect it might not be cyano at all. Naybe it's brown or golden algae? I've siphoned out as much as I can during my two treatment attempts. Will leaving the lights out for a few days be detrimental for my tank? I have a macro algae (chaeto) that will need some lighting, but i can easily set him up in my 2.5 gallon. My inhabitants are 2 false perculas, one xmas tree/kenya tree coral, three mexican turbo snails, 2 colonies of xenia and 3 colonies of zoanthids/palythoas.

I was thinking of covering the glass for a few days to achieve total darkness. Think this will help or harm?

 

[TimSchmidt]

probably hurt the other corals, but you could try to reduce feedings and then reduce the photoperiod. Maybe half the normal light you give now?

Tim

 

[leakyfaucet]

yeah. i'm doing the reduction of everything and increase in flow as well as filtration. My fluval 104 just came in. I love it. It clears the H20 really nicely! I will be running some purigen as well.

 

[skipm]

No lighting for a day or two won't harm anything in your tank, it is questionable what impact it would have on the cyano-like growth.
Reduce the amount you feed and only feed about three times a week. Keep your filter media clean and make sure you do weekly water changes. If there is no nutrients available for the cyano it will die back.