New "algae" question. In the middle of my largest Zoa colony, I have something that looks like rust red algae covering 5 polyps. It's obviously irritating because those 5 are closed shut. Does this look like red slime that I can treat? Or something else? Heres another image...same stuff on Halimeda
I have received Turkey Basters as Christmas presents. I have a black one for feeding and a red one for coral dip
I have a red turkey baster for coral dip...and I bought a couple of the really long tube acrylic kinds for feeding. I like the thinner tube. I felt like I was force feeding the Duncan's the one time I used the baster. Covered the poor guys. And my tank looked like a snow globe. Shrimp was happy though. I have better control with the long skinny tubes and smaller pump.
I don't like to vacuum sand unless specifically sucking up cyano. The sand bed in your reef tank will contain lots of good micro organisms as well as worms, stars, and pods. Cyano is common in newer tanks. Chemi clean works well. Sometimes too, it's a symptom of too little flow. That is, the bacteria are less successful at colonizing medium/strong flow areas.