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    Posted: January 09 2012 at 7:55pm
I keep getting patches of purple slime on my monti and here and there in my 120g tank I see patches of this purple slime. Where it sticks to the monti it seems to be causing the monti to recede and it seems to like to keep re-growing back in the same exact place though I clean it off with a soft brush daily.
I don't have a lot of it in the tank but it is a nuisance to keep on cleaning off the monti every day

Any ideas how to deal with this stuff?




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Usually if you increase the water flow where it is growing that helps. I would recommend treating the tank with Chemi Clean (or similar Cyano treatment) and then increase the water movement to try and eleminate it from coming back.
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Sort of difficult to get a pic of the slime
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Does feeding the fish Nori add to the bio load in the water when trying to lower the algae problem?
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If they are eating the nori in a few min you should be fine. just put enough maybe so they eat it in a short time period.
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