Clear/white slime

[Joiningsession]

New tank just finished cycling. This will be my third tank after taking a break for a few years. But have a question as this has never happened before. I have a clear/white algae or slime forming along the glass at the waterline and on the overflow of almost a mucus consistency. Is this something of normal like a bacterial bloom?

Cycle completed in roughly 3sh weeks using fritzturbo7 and dr Tim’s ammonia. All dry rock and dry sand. ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 10sh. ph 8. 40 gallon innovative marine with 2000gph of flow at the moment. Trying to provide any info that may be asked and tried to get a decent picture. Will be doing a 50% water change.

Should I add carbon? Let it ride? Any info or thoughts are appreciated.

 

[JaaxReef]

Looks like the bacterial bloom I got when I accidentally overdosed NOPOX from Red Sea. Bacteria would be my guess too.

Maybe some source of carbon (not activated carbon) is feeding the bacteria you added to your tank. Any cleaners or products used near the tank?

My advice would be just siphon it out with each water change and wait it out. Should go away eventually. I don’t think adding activated carbon would help in my experience.

 

[corand76]

Looks like the bacterial bloom I got when I accidentally overdosed NOPOX from Red Sea. Bacteria would be my guess too.

Maybe some source of carbon (not activated carbon) is feeding the bacteria you added to your tank. Any cleaners or products used near the tank?

My advice would be just siphon it out with each water change and wait it out. Should go away eventually. I don’t think adding activated carbon would help in my experience.

 

[corand76]

I've been dealing with this for a long time started scrubbing and peroxiding rocks, removed sand bed, added a few cured rocks and removed existing. completed 3/4 day black out which helped cut it back. Used clarity and many filter pads. It slowly came back again. either this has two stages, or I have two different slime algae's as the clear one coats everything and then it turns brown/green. it resembles calothrix that i saw in a picture which was said to be a nasty algae. I guess you might say I got it halfway under control. I use a poly filter pad to trap particles in it from the glass, clean filter and skimmer. blow off rocks, filter particles with net, and let the smaller debris go to filter. My next venture will be to use a slime or cyano type remove, if that fails I can at least say I tried everything.