Oh yeah one more thing the 3 maxi jets are on a red sea wavemaster pro.
I also have a sand sifting star along with many snails and hermits, I even
have 2 green emerald crabs. But this red stuff gets on the rocks and the
sand bed and is real thick but when you try to scope it out of the sand it
breaks up very easily.
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All,
I am having terrible problems with red slime algae no matter what I do I
can't get rid of it. I am using RO/DI unit brand new to top off with, the
tank is 8 months old. I have spent a ton of money to try and do this right
but this red algae is really testing my patience what sucks is I use the
same water from my RO/DI unit to top off my freshwater tank from time to
time also and I get no algae at all in my fresh water tank. This morning I
spent brushing my live rock with a brand new tooth brush never used before
to get this stuff off my rock. Here is my setup below along with water
parameters any help would be greatly appreciated. Oh yeah I have shrooms
and
polyps in this tank that are growing like crazy. You can see a picture of
the slime I am talking about at http://www.digitalrage.org/tank/1.JPG/ I
was
using a modified seaclone at one time because it was given to me and on
the
pics page you can see it pulled out dark skim, but I decided to buy a cpr
bakpak 2r which does a much better job in my opinion.
I feed twice a day a mixture of foods
Mysis
Formula One
Pygmy Angel Formula
And I feed thawed shrimp to the anemone's, I started with one but it split
Water Parameters taken this morning
salinity 1.024
ph 8.0
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 5.0
Ca 445
As I stated any help would be greatly appreciated.
My Setup
55 Gallon
60 pounds Live Sand about 3 1/2 inch bed
80 Pounds Tampa Live Rock
1 150watt Heater
1 100watt Heater
3 MaxiJet 1200 for water circulation
1 ProQuatics 1600 Canister nothing in it besides using phosban every now
and
again.
1 CPR Bak Pak 2r
260 watts of lighting 10hours a day by timer 2actinics 2 10,000 white.
Old Pictures Seen at http://www.digitalrage.org/tank/ I will get around to
taking newer pictures soon I hope.