Kiui1849
Community Member
I've had some algae problems with my tank as of the past two months off and on and recently; a CARPET took over the substrate of my sand. I haven't been able to get rid of it despite sifting the sand everyday and water changes and I've finally just decided to accept it. More recently what at first appeared to be algae started growing on the rocks and immediately took over. It looks like someone coated the rocks with white slime (although at first it was a dull army green). No matter how hard I scrubbed them they never came clean and it would grow back in a matter of days. Then even more recently white stuff started growing on the sides of my tanks. It looks like a spider popped in the tank. They're white and stringy. While I was feeding the coral yesterday I accidentally rubbed on them and then a giant translucent slime stuck to my hand. The water is slightly cloudy if you put it inba clear container but PH, Ammonia, etc is all good. It has cross contaminated to both of my salt tanks and I cannot get rid of it. I read to turn off your skimmers, take off the collection chamber of the skimmer, turn up the skimmer, empty the tank and wash it and everything else thoroughly (which i don't want to do), leave it alone for two or so weeks, or do lots of water changes and get a uv. I have one skimmer chamber turned up in one tank and took off the chamber in the other. It doesn't seem to be doing anything. The clean up crew refuses to touch the sand and the white stuff.
