red slime remover and BTA's

[billberet]

hey,
i found some red slime oozing across my sand, i usually use red slime remover and it's gone in a few days.

but now i have a BTA in my tank with 2 clowns.
can i still use the ultralife red slime remover?
the kind i am using is a yellow powder, comes in a small vile.

 

[billberet]

I didnt want to take any chances so I sucked the slime off the sand. Then I poured new sand around the area to deprive the slime of any light, just in case I did not get it all

 

[chenzo9999]

Do you normally use it with corals?

 

[Liberty]

I used that stuff once. My skimmer went nuts, had to turn it off. After 2 to 3 pwc lager ones it worked again.
Found out Sally light foot crabs eats it.
But that was my old tank.
Might need more flow like I did

 

[billberet]

that's natural, you are supposed to turn off your skimmer for the duration of the dose. else you just remove the medication from the water. after you are finished you then do a 40% water change. then you can turn on your skimmer.

 

[billberet]

Do you normally use it with corals?

i don't have corals, but from my friends that do. they say the corals might get a little upset but nothing fatal. afterwards the corals go back to their normal self. Granted, someone might chirp in saying all their corals died. I can only speak from my personal experience of what i saw first hand. and i haven't seen a coral die from red slime remover.