Hey everyone. So I’ve got this brown slime/string/mat infestation going on. I had a bad case of valonia that I used vibrant to rid the tank of. This current nuisance was present prior to the vibrant, but worse now.
I can blow it off, but it always returns. Peroxide doesn’t seem to do anything to it in a cup of tank water. I’ve got an old microscope but I can’t look at on high power it’s too blurry. I’m open to buying a cheap one if it’ll help. Pretty sure it’s not dinos, it’s sessile under the scope and looks like long structures. Some may be coiled like spirulina.
So, the tank is about 14 years running. It’s a 75 gallon, about 1lb/gallon live rock and sugar fine black sand. There’s some hermit crabs, nassarius snails, and three fish, a hippo tang and a pair of gsm clowns. I feed a strip of nori and pellet daily, and 0.25 of a rinsed, frozen cube every other day. I use a filter sock and a DC Curve 5 bubble magus skimmer (it pulls about a cup a week). Tank Params are as follows: Nitrates “0”, Phos “0”, SG 1.025. Hannah testers to obtain the results. I run black box leds on an apex timed cycle. Usually weekly water change of 5 gallons.
Thanks
I can blow it off, but it always returns. Peroxide doesn’t seem to do anything to it in a cup of tank water. I’ve got an old microscope but I can’t look at on high power it’s too blurry. I’m open to buying a cheap one if it’ll help. Pretty sure it’s not dinos, it’s sessile under the scope and looks like long structures. Some may be coiled like spirulina.
So, the tank is about 14 years running. It’s a 75 gallon, about 1lb/gallon live rock and sugar fine black sand. There’s some hermit crabs, nassarius snails, and three fish, a hippo tang and a pair of gsm clowns. I feed a strip of nori and pellet daily, and 0.25 of a rinsed, frozen cube every other day. I use a filter sock and a DC Curve 5 bubble magus skimmer (it pulls about a cup a week). Tank Params are as follows: Nitrates “0”, Phos “0”, SG 1.025. Hannah testers to obtain the results. I run black box leds on an apex timed cycle. Usually weekly water change of 5 gallons.
Thanks
