new to salt....got a problem..red slime/hair

Sounds like may be cyano which I believe is a phosphate problem. I've had red slime and it was more of a red coating on the glass with little bubbles. I used a product called Red Slime Remover by a company called UltraLife Reef Products on two different tanks and it worked great.

What do you have living in there and what are they being fed? What about your lighting? How large and frequent are your water changes? How is your flow?

I use the red slime remover product by altra life great product does'nt affect any of the corals or fish

Turbos will to a certain extent. But if you feed them mysis, there is little need for anything else. Many flake foods will increase the phosphates. Mysids are extremely nutritious and each fish should eat the equivilent of one mysid each. Like that there is no harm in skipping a day or two. Shrimp will also do mysids. You are going to havew trouble with those damsels.

i went through the exact same thing two months ago! this is how we got rid
cut your lights down to 4 hours a day work out if the aglae is only on the places missing flow
add extra flow like a couple more power heads until we get it sorted,
run carbon lots of if you can get one of those rowaphos things that i cant spell!
i got 4 huge hermit crabs just to help with clean up they traded them back when the boom over.
have you tested your source water for phosphates? your tank can test 0 because the algae uses it all.
it took three weeks but we beat it dont give up
good luck

have you tried using Rowaphos to remove phosphate? is a very simple an efficient was to deal with it... also check your alkalinity.

Regards
Pablo

I got one red-legged hermit in my pico and I saw him actually eating red slime. But he eats only the size of a thumbnail per day and only when he is really hungry.
Now, for example he lays since one day between two rocks like a bum on the pavement simply because I spend some tiny piece of fish on him.
:grinyes:

As red slime is a link between bacteria and algae, it can also use nitrogen gas in the tank, so only phosphate starvation will bring them down for sure.

Other methods worked with some people but with others not. High flow is such a method as the invisible small algae particles form long chains and subsequently dense mats.
If you collect some bits and leave it in a bowl or jar for an hour you will see how they stick together to form larger lumps.
In high flow areas that is less likely to occur but most tanks have at least a few corners or spot with low flow so that's only sweeping the problem under the carpet.
Even many tank set-ups in the shops have red slime somewhere hidden in the corners.

I get the red slime out by hand. Not that much of a pain if you got smaller tanks. And at the moment, I got again a phase where almost no red slime is growning new in both tanks.

Otherwise, I am simply trying to get down to the famous 0.03 ppm phosphates.