Advice on Red slime.

[Frankie_Garcia]

Just can't get rid of it. I have moved my powerheads to where there is no dead spots, tried the chemilife stuff, and even added more to the clean up crew. Any ideas? Anything is helpful.

 

[Bectan01]

What's your parameters/tank size/livestock? How much do you feed and how often?

 

[Frankie_Garcia]

Water parameters are great! My phosphates measure out 0, but I believe it's because of the cyano. My tank is a 29 gal, and I have a clarkii clown, six line wrasse, and 2 damsels. I feed every 2 days. Brine shrimp cubes. I have eliminated dead spots.

And a small clean up crew!

 

[Bectan01]

How old is the tank? I went through a real bad patch of cyano in the first few months of setting up my tank. It went away on its own and came back for a few weeks last year - couldn't really explain it. Sounds like your doing everything you can tho! Sorry I can't be of more help

 

[Rmckoy]

Even though water parameters are good what are you using for water ?
Rodi or tap ?
Are you buying your water somewhere ?
If you are buying water somewhere that changing filter
S might have been neglected .
There are phosphates in the water and my problem was tap water .
I started using rodi and the red slime was gone

 

[Frankie_Garcia]

For a while I was using tap water, but I recently started buying my water. I buy my water from a watermill place that goes through 8 stages of filtration but who knows if that's true, but it had done my tank better than the previous water i was using before. i also may need to do more frequent water changes.

 

[Rmckoy]

I think it would be fair to say .
Water quality and neglected maintenance ( exporting nutrients ) is the cause if the issue