aeroaustin Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 I notice there are red slime on sand and also on the wall of backd tank, THere are not lots of food feed, there are two ocellaris and 30 inverts. i have 2400 gph in the 75 gal tank I reccently added 40 lbs of live rocks from MAAST. I reduced the lights to 8 hours. Can I Siphon the slime out of the sand? or use slime remover? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headless_donkey Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 You can definitely siphon out the slime. Sometimes the slime remover works and some times it doesn't. I would check your phosphate level. I currently am dealing with a cayno problems. It is growing right where the flow hits the sand. The parameters are perfect. I am going to test my ro water next we make some. I also threw in some phosphate sponge and will be adding carbon tomorrow. Carbon pulls tons of stuff out of the water. Finally I will be shortening the light cycle. I will let you know if in win. best of luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroaustin Posted May 21, 2007 Author Share Posted May 21, 2007 Really, see you have the same problem I have... I tested Phosphate and its 0, all the parameter went 0. I added the new carbon in the sump. I read the message some where in forum mention that suspend the light for 72 hours ( 3 days ) like as Troprical storm in ocean. I can't find where the information. That will reduce the cyano. Let me know which is best work for you. I filled it up the new salt batch with RO/DI (TDS 0) for siphon in cases if I have to do to remove all the cyano while the siphon.. Best luck of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ACampbell Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 I read the message some where in forum mention that suspend the light for 72 hours ( 3 days ) like as Troprical storm in ocean. I can't find where the information. That will reduce the cyano. No light for three days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headless_donkey Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 That was my next steps, but boy is it scary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GKarshens Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 I did it once for a little over 2 days and it kicked the Cyano with no ill effects to anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headless_donkey Posted May 26, 2007 Share Posted May 26, 2007 I just got done with 2 days of no light on the tank and the cyano went away. The corals were a touch unhappy with no light, but they are cool now. I did leave the refugium light on so none of the macro would go sexual. I just hate cleaning up after macro has turned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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