I have had an active tank for about 6 months now, and i began to see a purple coating coating everything in my tank, i mistaknely thought it was corline algie, but after battleing this stuff for a while i finaly was able to descripe this stuff to a person at my lfs, and they said it was red slime. so i purchaced some formula to remove red slime. i after that i did an intenet search and learned more about red slime. and discovered it is not realy that bad for the fish but it makes your tank look bad, -- well to make a long story short, after i eraticated the red slime i noticed most of my live rock was bleach white, i then realised that my benificial bacteria must have been killed with the red slime. the next day i tested my water and found high amounts of amonia .75 ppm so as a panic situation i changed out 14 gal of water my tank is a 65 gal tank. as another emergency measure i put 118 ml of cycle in the tank to get some bacteria back into action, and i also used a product called ammo lock. it is now 3 days later and my ammonia is still at .75 and brown bacteria is coating my lr.
- i only use ro water
- the fish are not showing signs of stress that i can tell.
hiding, darting, not eating.
Critters"
foxface rabbit fish
yellow tail tang
yellow tang
Seahorse
feather duster
coral start.
stats are as follows
sg 1.022
no2 <.1 ppm
ph 8.1
no3 10 ppm
ammonia .75 ppm
1.) has anyone had any expeience with ammo lock, and how often should i use it. at best i found the instructions veague about continued use untill the tank is fixed. the insert said it will work upto 3ppm.
2.) What else should i do to get this fixed asap.
3.) any advice will be helpfull.
- i only use ro water
- the fish are not showing signs of stress that i can tell.
hiding, darting, not eating.
Critters"
foxface rabbit fish
yellow tail tang
yellow tang
Seahorse
feather duster
coral start.
stats are as follows
sg 1.022
no2 <.1 ppm
ph 8.1
no3 10 ppm
ammonia .75 ppm
1.) has anyone had any expeience with ammo lock, and how often should i use it. at best i found the instructions veague about continued use untill the tank is fixed. the insert said it will work upto 3ppm.
2.) What else should i do to get this fixed asap.
3.) any advice will be helpfull.