Bad Hair Algae

BC564 · #1 12-06-2007, 02:31 PM

Is the location of the tank in natural sunlight?

likwid · #2 12-06-2007, 02:42 PM

Nope, not in any direct sunlight at all

BC564 · #3 12-06-2007, 03:22 PM

How big are you weekly water changes?

BC564 · #4 12-06-2007, 03:45 PM

I had Cyano once...and used Red slime on it...it was totally gone in 2 days....and has never returned........it was on my 20 gal nano....and i just followed the instructions perfectly.

likwid · #5 12-06-2007, 06:01 PM

I used Chemi-clean which is suppsoed to remove red slime as well, but it did nothing at all. I do a 10% WC every week.

Delphinus · #6 12-06-2007, 07:47 PM

That's weird, I thought Chemiclean was supposed to do a pretty good job.

Could it be something else other than cyano? Can you post a picture?

likwid · #7 12-06-2007, 09:47 PM

Sure, Ill snap a shot tonight to post. On a side note, I have had a couple dead snails in the tank for unknown reasons. The shells are still in the tank, not sure if this is attributing to any of the cyano/algae problems, but they are in a hard to reach spot. I'll try to grab them tonight after my waterchange.

Johnny Reefer · #8 12-09-2007, 03:48 AM

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Originally Posted by likwid

I used Chemi-clean which is suppsoed to remove red slime as well, but it did nothing at all. .....

Did you remove most of the problem Cyano manually? You should do this in conjunction with the Chemi-Clean. I've used Chemi-Clean with good results, and FWIW...have decided to use it regularly on a monthly basis...as the package suggests. Ya, I know....frequent chemicals in the tank, which some might not agree with, but it's working for me and keeping it in check.

Cheers,