Bacterial slime or hair algae
2009/11/25 21:56
I still have unknown slime but I am not sure it is Bacterial slime or hair algae.
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My Japanese Reefer Tetsuo said very interesting point
Do you wanna see the result?
ALGAE!!!
You can see the related picture and post.
http://www.spsholic.com/entry/Bacterial-Slime
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My Japanese Reefer Tetsuo said very interesting point
I have green algae issue in my tanks.
I am increasing Mg+ up to 1350ppm.
It’s not issue from Si+ because DI water could not solve this issue.
Please get some slime from your tank, and put it into the fresh water.
If it is real cyano, several hours later slime dissolve.
If it is algae, it still keep the shape.
For green algae issue, adding Mg+ may solve.
For cyano, please adding more Carbon or decrease Carbon. It came from Carbon source.
My recommendation is adding very small Hermit crabs a lot.
50-100 is my suggestion.
Still I need a time to figure out these kinds issue.
Like Tetsuo said. I started a little test about my thing.
I put some slime in fresh water.
I put some slime in fresh water.
Do you wanna see the result?
ALGAE!!!
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It is algae.
So your tank has some nutrients to grow algae.
You should stop some trace elements.
Iodine is one choice.
Another choice is decreasing KH.
Watch out SPS condition.
Whenever decrease trace element or KH, SPS is getting a bad condition.
Thanks Tetsuo.
You mean stoping trace elements like Iodine and Decreasing KH is helpful to solove my problem..right?
How about increasing MG like you said?
I'm not sure about increasing MG or reducing trace elements. However one thing that I can recommend is doing more frequent water changes. Your rocks may be leaching Phosphate (PO4) and or it could be coming from flake food, if you use it. I had a problem with PO4 leaching from my rocks, but I consistently performed water changes and was dosing vodka for a while. The vodka mainly helped out with the NO3 and overall water clarity, but didn't do anything to the PO4 levels, which were still high.
So, what I ended up doing was setting up a refugium where I keep macro algae and having a friend from the US bring me some Phosbuster Pro. Those two combined really help bring my PO4 into check and although I still have issues with it also, it's not so bad.
Whatever you do, don't BRUSH the algae out with a wire brush. Here's a good method for dealing with hair algae issues. http://www.melevsreef.com/gha.html