clear slime in my refugium

[techhnyne]

I have a clear slime in my fuge mostly covering my cheato
anyone know what this might be and why? and how to quickly correct this?

Thanks

 

[Diesel]

Picture?

 

[techhnyne]

Here is a pic

 

[techhnyne]

Ok after further i vestigation it seems to be more hair like algae with air bubbles attatched to it

 

[Diesel]

Use some potassium that will speed up the growth from your chaeto to out compete the HA

 

[Tft12]

Stringy stuff that produces bubbles is often dinoflagellates. Hopefully not. I assume the stuff growing on your heater is the same stuff growing in your chaeto- unfortunately it doesn’t look like HA, which I prefer to deal with instead of dinoflagellates.

 

[techhnyne]

How do i distinguish the difference between algae and dinos?

 

[techhnyne]

Ugh. I believe it is dinoflagellates. Crap! How did i get these things?

Now i gotta read best way to combat this stuff