buddy08
SPS Addict
i have been battling red slime for about 2 months now syphoning whatever i could see and this is my last effort to fix the problem.. for starters, i will give you a run down of things that could possible be the cause but i will let you experts decide and narrow it down for me
my bulbs are roughly 8 months old (t5's)
*this a sign they need replacing?
i have 6 fish (1 yellow tang, 1 coral beauty, 2 damsels, and 2 clowns)
i feed them one 3x3 inch algae sheet daily as well as 1 frozen mysis shrimp cube.
*am i over feeding?
i used to toss the cube in my sump and it would normally disolve to where my return pump would feed it back to the DT, i felt this was better than just dropping the cube in the tank due to the fact the cube would float up against the overflows and drain shrimp back into the sump...then the thought dawned on me months later that the mag drive was most likely chopping the shrimp into smaller pieces that would just disolve and not get eaten.
*could that be another factor and if so, should i just dissolve food in a cup with tank water and then poor it into the DT?
i had a fuge full of cheato... but my urchin ate it all.
*would adding more cheato help with the red slime even though my phosphates read 0.
I just bought a new BR-110 Bio pellet reactor but after consulting many of you, it seems i need to add more flow.
*when this is properly set up, will this help fight the algae off?
Lastly, i know theres the blackout method. How would i go about preforming this? I understand the part where the tank lights stay off for 3 days but what about feeding, do i feed regularly?
thanks in advance, its alot to read over but i want to get this handled before it gets out of hand
my bulbs are roughly 8 months old (t5's)
*this a sign they need replacing?
i have 6 fish (1 yellow tang, 1 coral beauty, 2 damsels, and 2 clowns)
i feed them one 3x3 inch algae sheet daily as well as 1 frozen mysis shrimp cube.
*am i over feeding?
i used to toss the cube in my sump and it would normally disolve to where my return pump would feed it back to the DT, i felt this was better than just dropping the cube in the tank due to the fact the cube would float up against the overflows and drain shrimp back into the sump...then the thought dawned on me months later that the mag drive was most likely chopping the shrimp into smaller pieces that would just disolve and not get eaten.
*could that be another factor and if so, should i just dissolve food in a cup with tank water and then poor it into the DT?
i had a fuge full of cheato... but my urchin ate it all.
*would adding more cheato help with the red slime even though my phosphates read 0.
I just bought a new BR-110 Bio pellet reactor but after consulting many of you, it seems i need to add more flow.
*when this is properly set up, will this help fight the algae off?
Lastly, i know theres the blackout method. How would i go about preforming this? I understand the part where the tank lights stay off for 3 days but what about feeding, do i feed regularly?
thanks in advance, its alot to read over but i want to get this handled before it gets out of hand