Putter's first tank

[Doc]

if the slime releases air bubbles when you touch it, it is cyano. looks like it to me

-Doc

[reeffreak]

Although I never seen it in green,it looks like cyano to me too.Either that or dinoflagellate which is basically the same thing.I would consider running some kind of phosphate media(Chemipure Elite,Phosban).Siphon what you can when you do a water change.

[Doc]

one of the fish stores in this area gets green cyano all the time. it is weird, but i prefer the red stuff, looks better in my tank

-Doc

[fishbait]

I have some green and red in mine. I feel special to be blessed with both.

[Doc]

yes, you are special.

-Doc

[fatman]

Soooooo special.......
Cyano. Kalkwasser top offs and phosphate absorbent, to treat symptoms, to treat illness you get to figure out where your nitrate is coming from along with the suspected phosphates. Did you test for phosphate? What is your water source and how was your rock and live substrate cured? Have you added new rock or live substrate recently? Are or have you been feeding to heavy? And is your food produced from a cultured or wild source? Wild sources usually have less algae nutrient problems. Cultured sources (phytoplankton) are fed heavily with, basically, chemical plant fertilizer, and then the phyto is fed to the next larger cultured food, Wa La, fertilizer in your water. Maybe Biffer will grace you with entry into the AFT club!!!

[putter]

Well I ended up in the hospital for a few days so the tank has been dark since my last post, just got home tonight and will conduct water tests tomorrow along with a20% water change. The water sorce is RODI I am feeding Mysis frozen food every other day, only one fish so I am feeding very small amounts. I think I have the source pinned down, I was trying to feed the brains some frozen shrimp pieces prior to recieving the mysis, I tried to retrive the pieces but could not. Will keep a reduced light cycle and do weekly 20% changes for a couple weeks, with a flashlight tonight it looks like the algae is dieing off, will try to siphon as much as I can tomorrow with the water change.

[Doc]

hope you are OK...

-Doc

[putter]

Thanks doc, things here will be fine with time, just to save me the time to look it up...what is this awsum looking fish??

[fatman]

Beautiful Monti Coral! Nice, nice, nice! Silver or Pink Tipped Orange. Took a lot of calcium supplementation for that sucker to get to that size. Oh, the fish, beats me. Looks like something Doc would like though.