Chemiclean Red Slime Remover

Discussion in 'Water Chemistry' started by mario8402, Mar 17, 2007.

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  1. DrTim

    DrTim 3reef Sponsor

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    Maybe we should start a separate thread to discuss their paper. There is ton and good information in this. It is long and a lot to digest but worth reading even if you don't what to talk about it! I recommend everyone read it
     
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  3. VitalApparatuz

    VitalApparatuz Feather Duster

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    OMG three water changes later and my skimmer is still goin nutz after the chemiclean treatment,lol.The cyano is gone though :)
     
  4. DrTim

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    Part of the problem is that cyanobacteria can fix nitrogen from air. So your nitrate concentration can be fine (really low) but you can still have cyanobacteria. To treat the source and not the symptom you need to go after carbon and phosphate (inorganic and organic). This is why a refugium typically works - the cheato removes the phosphate from the water so it is not available to the cyano. Another method is to consider is to use bacteria - the bacteria grow removing carbon and phosphate from the water and the bacteria are exported from the system via the protein skimmer or may be ingested by the corals. These methods take time to work but they go after the source. Using chemi-clean is only a short term fix.
     
  5. EasyMac

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    I am also using this medication an I am worried that the problem might come back.

    What kind of "good" bacteria are you mentioning here? Is it some sort of bacteria in a bottle?

    Thank you.
     
  6. VitalApparatuz

    VitalApparatuz Feather Duster

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    im using bio pellets and I already had a fuge full of cheato