Cyano deaths?

[daniella3d]

I used red slime remover many times and nothing was affected. I did not overdose, never got any cloudy water either and never had any spike of ammonia or anything. It did not affect the biofilter nor the corals, nor the fishes.

In fact, I use it every month or every second month to make my water crisp clear, which it does each time, so the opposite of what you got.

I beleive that your tank had big problems, and it had nothing to do with red slime remover but you probably got an ammonia spike and that killed your fish and made your water cloudy. Or you got a bacteria bloom and that deplated your tank of oxygen.

Never use tap water, your problem probably come from using tap water. Use RO water. When you use tap water, do you treat it with anything to remove the chlorine or chloramine? Chloramine, if your water contain it, does not go away in a day or 2 and it is much more stable than chlorine. If by any chance you do have chloramine in your tap water and you used a product that only neutralize chlorine, that released the ammonia from the chloramine and probably killed your fish. So tap water is very bad, and more so if it contain chloramine since you really need something like Seachem Prime to neutralize both the chlorine and ammonia from the chloramine.

Red slime remover does not kill the cyano, it dissolve the organic waste in the aquarium so that the cyano does not have any more food to feed on. It does not contain any antibiotics so it does not kill the biofilter either. It is simply an oxydant, and a mild one too. Like anything else, if you overdosed, that create a dangerous situation. Especialy if you left the carbon in, then it probably absorbed all the product anyway so I doubt it was overdosed, probably was quickly absorbed.

Originally Posted by Murminator

The cyano exploded it was everywhere now Anyone know what red slime remover does?....I'm guess it depletes O2 and thats what killed my fish or was it just the chemical itself?

Casualties
1 coral beauty MIA
2 yellow belly damsels 1 found 1 MIA
1 mandrain found
1 lattice butterfly found
1 neon dottyback MIA
2 clowns 1 not doing good 1 MIA
1 filefish seams to be healthy happy and eating

Tomorrow i will start pulling rocks to remove bodies

[Murminator]

I have been using tap for 7+ years with no problems but this fall when I tore down and rebuilt the tank into a FOWLR I started with tap water and cycled on tape water and then changed all my top ups and water changes with RO/DI. I do not have storage for the water I just make it couple evenings a week for top up when I get ahead I do a water change. I didn't have enough on tap to do big water changes thats why I used tap water.

[reefwars]

something is feeding the cyanoto make it reproduce so fast maybe something from the transfer or something died.... since its a fish only id just keep battling it with water changes,and flow the usual and my little trick i tell everyone and they all seem to love it is take a pantyhose over a cup use a turkey baster to suck up mats of cyano and empty it into the pantyhose once your done you have a sock full of cyano and your down no water. i keep that stuff right next to the tank so i can suck it up as soon as it appears again

when ever my snails reproduced i would get little outbreaks of cyano and that was how i knew they were mating, at first they are so small i cant see them but the signs are there and with in days they are view able

[reefwars]

possible for sure anythings possible but i could make theorys about everything like that then id trust nothing or no one...but im not saying tap water is better .... if he believes that tap water caused a mini crash in his tank while there could be other issues its worth investigating.


rough luck with the tanks buddy for sure this year i hope it gets sorted out for you soon