Bad Hair Algae

[BC564]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[likwid]

Here are the photos of the red slime.






And a FTS so you can see all the ugly hair algae on my rocks :/

[BC564]

I had a bunch of hair algae like that also.....I used Algae magic on it for 3 consecutive days.....and it has never returned either.....but I also added a Phosban reactor on the 5th day from treatment....so I would guess that is why it hasnt come back. That looks like Cyano to me...

[Reefer Rob]

I suppose I'm stating the obvious when I say it has to be a nutrient export issue. You could try "live rock in a bucket", or dosing iron to increase your Chaeto growth.

Also have a look at this thread.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...readid=1078532

[likwid]

Ya I spent $60 on a bottle of Algae magic that did nothing at all for my tank.

Ill try 3 days of darkness and post the results.

[BC564]

wow....I dont know what to tell you ......hmmm

[fiorano]

can cyano also get all long and stringy too because i have like thick red slime on some parts of my sand that is like flowing with the water in strings?