How to get rid of Cyanobacteria - Red Slime Algae

Here are some tips to eliminating red slime algae (actually a type of cyanobacteria) from reef aquariums.

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[Deutschus]

Hi, biochemist here and worked as an aquatics specialist for a while. Chemiclean causes the water to become highly oxidized. Cyanobacteria is an obligate anaerobic bacteria. If it is exposed to high levels of oxygen it will prevent it from doing the respiration it needs to do. Your protein skimmer will also work overtime when chemiclean is applied because of the higher oxygen content in the water. This may help in nutrient export as well defeating Cyanobacteria.

[hamzamohammedhamid]

U make so many faces when you talk and I really like it. Haha. Your so nice patience calm in explaining the right stuff. thanks.

[franciscoasalazar]

Glad you are not afraid of bottled solutions. Consider trying Vibrant next. Keep up the good maintenance and great work.

[DJ_LittlePea]

I got rid of mine by keeping the lights out and changing my floss every two days and vacuuming the sand bed .... enjoyed this video you explained everything really well 😻

[lazyreefer]

Wtf that’s crazy I’ve been struggling with red slime algae for 1 Thanks man I appreciate it!

[coffee_soup]

WOW... I battled the algae for ... years and couldn't get it to go away... that chemiclean is impressive.

[DanPotter]

Great Video as all your uploads tend to be, I do have one question for you to consider and possibly do a video on. What if the Algae outbreak is caused by the tank being Nitrate/Phosphate Limited. Where both are at or close to 0 and possible recovery options?


Thanks again for your continued content.

[gunstrucksbbq]

Extremely important point about pump flow dropping off. Clean your pumps!

[hustlecoralvlogs]

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[CodeItAllcom]

Now that it's been months since using ChemiClean, I'm curious to know whether or not it worked long term. Have you had cyano return? Any ill effects noticed after having used it?

[joec]

Chemo clean is great!!! It works but watch the skimmer when you turn it back on. I use a 3/4 ball valve on the skimmer intake just to add an extra control.

[robing]

Another great way to prevent cyano bacteria to stay on the ground are sand sifting gobies. I had small problems with cyano bacteria on the substrate but since getting my diamond goby he moves all the substrate around all the time, so the sand is always clean.

[DeeFromBrooklyn]

did that product lower phosphate levels? if the source still remains then what did it do? bandaid..

[juniorrocketdad]

I just used chemical clean and it killed 95% of the cyano but some did survive, everything in my tank survived but during treatment a lot of corals polyps were retracted more than usual

[firebirdude]

"Red Slime Remover" works too, BUT it will regrow once it all dies out if you haven't addressed the root cause.

[dkdh]

Great start of a series on battling with algae.... in fact I recently just reboot my 540l display tank because of Dino, and would love to hear your advice on that battle....

[Ninja-Nutzinuri]

You forgot one and I found this out by mistake. I had been battling a patch of cyano for a while. even chemiclean was only a temp fix. I happened to buy a blue tuxedo urchin one day while I was at my LFS. not even a whole day into the tank and he mowed through it ALL, he even got the stains off the rock, so theres always that option. I was always told nothing would eat it but I guess thats not the case.

[Lraepsirhc]

My nutrients are not terrible. My latest phos is 1.11 which is not nearly as high as I have seen it and I wouldn’t say many would see my phos at that level and fall over dead at the sight of such a number. My alk is low(I forget the rest of my numbers right now) and so are my other areas having a direct effect on coral growth, but nutrient wise my phos isn’t terrible and my nitrates were actually undetectable which is strange since feed friggen dirty pellet food more often than not. So I have a 50/50 ratio with a tank just over one year old and I finally got cyano. It’s not terrible. It’s more stringy garbage all over the place than red slime on the sand. But it’s still nasty and making my coral upset. I bought some chemiclean and microbacter 7.

[lunes-]

I agree, the reason is that people neglect clean the sand often and water changes and cleaning equipment.in good well maintained tanks with quality equipment we never see this problems because usually have superb water circulation and have less sand that should be, so is not room for this bad algaes to grow

[Night_City_Vibes]

I just dosed ciprofloxacin in my tank after cleaning all the glass, and rocks. Turned my Ozone, Uv, and carbon systems on high. And than spot treated with hydrogen peroxide. While upping my dosing of bacteria. Turning my skimmer all the way up