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    Blue Vet Rx REDSLIME CONTROL

    Has anyone had any experience with this product? I had an outbreak of red slime algae and wanted to nip it in the bud, so I bought this stuff and put it in as per dosage directions. The box says it doesn't discolor the water...it did.....turned it a bit white or cloudy.
    Anyway, my question is......albeit a bit late.......does this RedSlime Control also kill other algaes? I just put in a $35.00 piece of rock with Maiden's Hair algae on it and I have a few other varieties of macroalgae (besides the hated grape caulerpa) that I don't want killed.
    Anybody know for sure?
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    Re: Blue Vet Rx REDSLIME CONTROL

    Never heard of that brand so I don't know.
    I have used Red Slime Remover and it did work and it did drive my skimmer nuts for over a week. However if you don't address the underlying problem (excess nutrients, slow flow, old bulbs are some) it will just come back again.
    I hope that brand is safe. My guess is that it probably is but you really do need to find the real problem and address it.
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    Re: Blue Vet Rx REDSLIME CONTROL

    Thanks Lynn. It appears that it has only affected the red slime. I suspect the root cause is a combination of slightly overfeeding and old bulbs. I recently replaced one of my light fixtures and the difference in the brightness, etc., of the compact tubes in the new fixture was amazing. I still have an older fixture, with old tubes, on the back half of the tank that doesn't come close to the quality of light that the new tubes give off. I guess I'll have to spend a hundred dollars more and replace those tubes (I am up to around $2,500 spent in the last 3 months on this puppy, but I sure do love it.)
    Since posting this question, I read some of the other red slime remover products' information and a couple of them did state that it won't hurt algaes. I also learned that red slime isn't even algae, so my fears have abated. I appreciate your response.
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    Re: Blue Vet Rx REDSLIME CONTROL

    I have never heard of it either I use Boyd enterprises Chemi Clean it works wonders
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    Re: Blue Vet Rx REDSLIME CONTROL

    Quote Originally Posted by AQTCJAK View Post
    I have never heard of it either I use Boyd enterprises Chemi Clean it works wonders
    I just purchased it from Drs. Foster & Smith. Their ad for it said it was "new", so I guess it is a new product and not just "new" to Foster & Smith's web store like I thought.
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    Re: Blue Vet Rx REDSLIME CONTROL

    I've used it and it works great. It does not effect algae at all seeing that red slime algae aka cyano bacteria is actually a bacteria and not and algae and this stuff is designed with that in mind.
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    Re: Blue Vet Rx REDSLIME CONTROL

    Thanks everyone! I received a phone call from Drs. Foster & Smith today in response to my email. They assured me it won't harm plants.......which is great, seeing as I had already put it in my tank when I thought about it. lol
    It did work great. The red slime is history, I have cut back on feeding and new bulbs are on the way.

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    Glad it turned out for the better
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    Re: Blue Vet Rx REDSLIME CONTROL

    Thanks Jack. I had emailed Drs. Foster & Smith about it. They emailed back and said they were contacting the manufacturer to find out. Then, to my delight, I received a phone call from them yesterday to tell me it was okay to use with plants. I was VERY impressed that they took the time to phone me.

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    Re: Blue Vet Rx REDSLIME CONTROL

    As noted, once the cyanobacteria (red slime) is gone, you really should get your water quality under control as that is what is fueling the cyano growth (phosphates / nitrates).
    Also, for future money saving, you can buy Erythromycin as a pill from a pharmacy or vet, dissolve it in the tank and it will do the same thing. (250 - 500 mg pill per 100 gallons). This is the same ingredient that chemi-clean and most all the "slime away" products use, they just don't tell you. If it is a white powder, its Erythromycin, if its a yellowish powder, then its Tetracycline. Either one will wipe out cyanobacteria. ( a single 500mg Erythromycin pill costs me about 25 cents each, which I take when I have a sore throat ).

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    Re: Blue Vet Rx REDSLIME CONTROL

    Thanks for the tip, Chuck. That's good to know. I'll bet there are a lot of products out there that can be easily made at home.

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    Re: Blue Vet Rx REDSLIME CONTROL

    hmmmm , since you havent started a chronicle yet what lights do you have? I am asking you for my own personal purpose...
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    Re: Blue Vet Rx REDSLIME CONTROL

    NO!!!! this is a broad spectrum antibiotic, it will kill the cyno along with most of your funa and other bacterias. cyno is easy enough to controll by just limiting your nutrient inputs and/or increasing your nutrient outputs, via water changes with RO/DI that has a TDS of 0.0, use of macro's, reducuction in feeding, wet skimming ect..... for a short time fix just turn off the lights for a day.
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    Re: Blue Vet Rx REDSLIME CONTROL

    Quote Originally Posted by caitrina View Post
    hmmmm , since you havent started a chronicle yet what lights do you have? I am asking you for my own personal purpose...
    I am using two 48" Corallife power compact fixtures on my 75-gallon tank:

    four 65-watt 10000k tubes
    four 65-watt actinice tubes
    four lunar LEDs
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    Re: Blue Vet Rx REDSLIME CONTROL

    Quote Originally Posted by prow View Post
    NO!!!! this is a broad spectrum antibiotic, it will kill the cyno along with most of your funa and other bacterias. cyno is easy enough to controll by just limiting your nutrient inputs and/or increasing your nutrient outputs, via water changes with RO/DI that has a TDS of 0.0, use of macro's, reducuction in feeding, wet skimming ect..... for a short time fix just turn off the lights for a day.
    I'm going by what Drs. Foster & Smith told me when they called me. Nothing else (visible anyway) was affected by it. The red slime is history, tho. I have cut back on how much I feed (feel sorry for the little guys) and have new tubes coming tomorrow for my older PC fixture (the other one is less than a month old and the difference in light intensity is dramatic). I also cleaned out my other canister filter. The guy I bought this system from, about 10 weeks or so ago, told me that both canisters needed cleaned. I cleaned one within a couple weeks of getting the system and wanted to wait before cleaning the second because I didn't want to disrupt the bacteria in both filters at once. Yeah, I know, I should use a refugium instead, but that isn't going to happen any time soon. I added some De-Nitrate to the canister when I cleaned it, as the nitrate has been running around 15-ppm. Hopefully, cleaning that filter and adding the new agent will bring that down. I'll test it in another day or two and see what the nitrate is doing.
    Ammonia = 0
    Nitrite = 0
    Nitrate = 15
    Phosphate = 0
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