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[littlefish]

Hey guys.

My tank has a lot of bubbles coming from the bottom and the sand and some rocks and part of the sand are turning red. The red algae or slime or whatever it is, is what's creating the bubbles.
Is it too many nutrients, or too much food, or the plankton ?
How do I get rid of it.
My skimmer is working fine.
Be the end of the week I will install the UV Unit, the Calcium Ractor and my Neptune AquaJR.
I'm waiting at least a couple of months before I add fish (one every month).
I thank everyone that's always giving us, the guys that don't know too much, advise and solutions.

Alfredo

 

[Deanos]

Search this site and others, for "Red Slime Algae" or cyanobacteria.

 

[reefman]

if u have no corals, turn off the lights for a few days.

 

[DEEPWATER]

dont feed your tank since you have no fish .your coral will be fine unless you have coral that need feeding(sunpolpys and so on )

 

[home wrecker]

there is a red slime remover .....u can check reefexotics.com...i used it an it got rid of all my red slime in one dose

 

[littlefish]

Corals

I do have corals. Should I have less hours of light?

 

[littlefish]

Fish

Sorry I forgot to say that I have one fish (Maroon Clown), cleaning Shrimps, Hermit Crabs.
So what do I do about feeding?

 

[littlefish]

Uupss

I also have a clam.

 

[Deanos]

Did you read about the cyanobacteria?

 

[reefman]

try shorten light period. increase back when your algea is in check. your nitrates n po4 r probably too high

 

[Tonyscoots84]

do not use red slime remover i lost over 25+ frags with that stuff.... instead of using a chemical to fix your problem for a couple of weeks and then it coming back go to the root of your problem and fix it permanently, find out what is the cause of the cyano and eliminate that

 

[reefman]

instead of using a chemical to fix your problem for a couple of weeks and then it coming back go to the root of your problem and fix it permanently, find out what is cause the cyano and eliminate that

well said

 

[Harif87]

Cyano causes bubbles?

Also to the threadstarter, are you using tap water?

 

[Tonyscoots84]

cyano makes and releases tiny bubbles

 

[littlefish]

Water

I use RO Water. I have a four stages RO Unit.

 

[littlefish]

Test

I just tested my water for amonia, nitirtes, and nitrates and it tested OK.

 

[Wes]

i tryied raising the alk and it either worked or just went away on it's own...I don't know for sure but I think the alkalinity increase helped

 

[Deanos]

I just tested my water for amonia, nitirtes, and nitrates and it tested OK.

What were your nitrates?

 

[ellebelle]

I was having a problem with cyano and it helped a lot when I added another powerhead to increase flow. How is the flow in your tank?

 

[Tonyscoots84]

What were your nitrates?

dean

there ok

shouldn't that be enough info :sigh: what were the values alfredo just saying there ok doesn't cut it...