Algae control

I think that Chemiclean will only cover up your algae problem for a shot amount of time it wont help you in the long run to rid the slime from your tank. When i had hair algae and red slime these are the things that helped me out.

1. 25% water changes once a week for 2 months RO/DI water only. this step might take longer then a few months it just depends.
2. run high quality carbon and GFO/ "Granular Ferric Oxide" in a reactor if possible. Bulk reef supply has great GFO and Carbon at a reasonable price
3. made sure my bulbs were not outdated
4. increase flow to dead spots around the tank

hopefully this helps you out and good luck..

 

Depending on the size of your tank you could order a big reef cleaner package and maybe spit it with someone, i forget the website but ninjazx777 knows. Anyway you get like 500 critters for 150 bucks that will annialate your problem. But scrub your rock first and do a water change with rodi or distilled never tap. Also I ordered this stuff called SAT it was like 15 dollars and it worked! As far as the cyno red slime it will keep coming back I used chemiclean 20% water change after 2 days and an ultraviolet light and it never grew back oh yea and more flow it doesn't grow if you flow is good. Good luck this is the hardest part to overcome. Invest in a denitrator and phosban reactor.

 

IMO u need to find the source. Wat is the TDS of ur RODI water? that is a good starting place.

 

+1 for Bud's response.  The algae scrubber is my only form of filtration.  Haven't used a skimmer, GFO, carbon for over three years.  The water changes I do amount to 15 gallons a week due to OCD vacuuming of the rock and the basement sump.  Makes me feel useful on my 300g system.  Corals are thriving.

 

i just did an order off reef cleaners

 

i just did an order off reef cleaners

 

i just did an order off reef cleaners

 

For the past couple months I have noticed more algae on certain rocks and couldnt figure out why because I just added 40 astrea/turbo snails and many blue leg. Yesterday I was looking online trying to find out why they were not working. I have already scrubbed with a toothbrush and its back with in a couple days. So last night all the snails that were on top of the tank 20 or so I moved them to bad area of rocks and came home tonight to see each has cleared a spot on that rock 3 time their size. I am amazed.