Disappearing cyano algae

[meiyouwenti]

well I used the redslime algae remover and dramatically increased the water flow and no more red ..so I guess that takes care of it (I hope)..I don't trust it not to come back after the 20% water change that I just did and turned skimmer back on and phospate filter...Maybe if it comes back I will try to lower my lights (if I could just figure out the controls on these--you need a degree in computer programming to do this)..I have a 120 gallon reef with 25 gal sump ....Bubble king skimmer and Solaris 48" light strip....and so far I seem to have beaten the cyano problem...but will see tomorrow what happens....

[Trigger Man]

If your bulbs are getting old it could be that. As the bulb ages its output declines.
When I had red slime issues I ran chemiclean Red slime remover (2 cycles). That removed all of my red slime and it has not come back since. I also use Aqua Connect Contraphos and find it has gotten rid of basicly all the algae in my tank (does not affect my coralline which I want on my lr) With the Contraphos, there are no english instructions, but basicly for my 125ish tank I started with putting 100 ml in the provided filter bag and putting it in for a week. Then I would change the media and put the new stuff in for a week. After 3 weeks I now change the media around once a month and have no algae problems. I tend to over feed so i know my fish are producing a lot of waste and some food just gets lost in the tank. So you can try the above out and hopefully it works for you if you still have the algae probs.

[meiyouwenti]

thanks..My bulbs are fairly new though and I don't think they need replacement until about 50000 hours or something ridiculous...they are solaris..my problem is controlling the computer that controls the lighting...Everything in my parameters looks like I am overfeeding but I am hardly feeding at all...maybe one cube every second day total...and there are about 9 medium fish, 10 chromis, and a few other small ones...so I don't know why I can't get my parameters down....but as I said i seem to have the cyano algae undercontrol (I hope)...but what is the contraphos that you used? is that just an algae remover? I can't read the language it is written in