What Is Red Algae

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  1. baretta

    baretta Plankton

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    This Red Stuff In My Tank Wat Is It/ How Can I Get Rid Of This.

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  2. evolved

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    Cyanobacteria
     
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  3. 2in10

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    Cyanobacteria
     
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  4. baretta

    baretta Plankton

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    Okay, How Can I Remove This or get rid of it.
     
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  6. 2in10

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    Siphon it out, lower your nitrate and phosphate levels, boost your alkalinity. Clean your equipment thoroughly to remove detritus, stop using tap water and start using RO?DI water. Cut back on how much you feed your fish and coral. Start using carbon and granulated ferric oxide. Add a refugium to your system to grow algae to export your nitrates and phosphates. Skim wet to remove more contaminants from your water.
     
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  7. Jon.Peak

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    i just upgraded water quality and flow in the tank
     
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  8. gsxr1000rider

    gsxr1000rider Fire Shrimp

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    you can use Cyanobacteria remover, its made by Red Slime, But beware its not always completely reef safe like it says..
     
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  9. Mr. Bill

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    What's not so reef safe about such products is that when you kill off red slime inside the aquarium, the cyano not only releases the nutrients it has absorbed, but also toxic secondary metabolites. The only safe way to address cyano is to vacuum it out during WCs and lower the nutrients that it feeds on as already stated.

    Secondary Metabolites from Cyanobacteria
     
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  10. Reef4life

    Reef4life Feather Duster

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    For me the biggest thing was getting carbon in the system and cutting down feeding. Also move the power heads so you have good flow.
     
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