Red Slime Remover

Thinking about using some Chemi-Clean Red Slime Remover.  Two questions:  (1) Has anybody had experience with this?   It says it's safe for all corals, fish, inverts and beneficial bacteria, but it seems I've read some horror stories about other algea removers killing everything in a tank.  (2) The directions state that you need to maintain oxygen levels in the tank for 24 hours after treatment using an airstone or similar.  Is this really necessary, and if so, does anybody have one I can borrow for a couple days?

I recently had a guy come into Reef Runners that used the Chemi-clean Red Slime Remover and it wiped out his ENTIRE tank. Nothing lived, it killed all fish, snails, corals and crabs. I am not sure if he actually followed all of the directions but from what he said it sounded like it.

I have used it in my tank twice with NO PROBLEMS AT ALL. FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS. Add an airstone, Change 25% water the next day then 25% again the next day and then turn your skimmer back on and Run A/C the day after you dose.

The Red Slime Remover made by Blue Life is much simpler to use. You remove all carbon and other media, turn off your skimmer and do a 25% water change after like 5 days.

Edited by Ryan Thompson - September 23 2009 at 10:28am

hmmm it worked on my 24 gallon, 12 gallon, and my 90 gallon tank. But hey if the blue life worked thats great. Im with ryan though, find out why its happening. I did that on my first tank used both brands and they didnt work come to find out it was flow. I would go through what ryan said and seriously look at each one closely. 

Thanks everybody.  Tank is a 90 gal reef.  New to the hobby and have been up and running about 7 months.  Been a rocky road thus far:  lots of "easy" corals dying off for no identifyable reason, others doing quite well.  No problems with fish until recently, when I had an outbreak of something that killed 6 fish in two weeks.  Hopefully that's over now.  It's been hard to resist the urge to cut bait and get out at times, but when things are going well (relatively speaking, for me), I really enjoy it.  I've always had a lot of red algea, and rust-colored algea appears to bloom about once every two weeks and is quite thick for a couple days before diminishing rapidly.  Even when it's low, it always has a presence, particularly on the back glass where I can't scrape due to the LR.

I would try to increase th flow.  That is what my problem was.  Maybe even try redirecting the flow.  If it were my tank I would at least put another 4 in.  Just my two cents.

In the thread below, which btw will help you with a lot of other tips and techniques in keeping a thriving and beautiful reef aquarium there are links to other threads where we have discussed the alternatives to using chemicals. In general, using chemicals to correct algae problems are not recommended. There are much safer and more natural ways to do the job.