Help!!! Clear slime growing everywhere

[Salty Carlo]

Can someone please help me identify what this clear slime that is all over my tank is, and how to get rid of it.

 

[jenreefer]

Are you dosing carbon? or running carbon? It might be a bacterial bloom. I would add an airstone right away to make sure there is enough oxygen in the tank while you figure this out.

#reefsquad

 

[Salty Carlo]

I am running carbon and dosing Nopox

 

[jenreefer]

I would stop the carbon and Nopox immediately. Do as large a water change as you can get done tonight and make some more to do another change tomorrow. Move all fish to a separate tank with fresh water if you have one available.

extra oxygen is a must to save your fish.

 

[melypr1985]

Hi! I moved your thread to the reef discussion forum for better views and replies. I agree that that could be a bacteria or even an algae. The rest of the squad should be able to pinpoint that a bit better for you.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yup looks like some stringy bacteria gunk. Is the water cloudy or is it just these stringy bacteria colonies?.

 

[Pongo]

I am running carbon and dosing Nopox

Something similar, but much less dramatic happened to my tank about week 3 into dosing NoPOX.

What I did was.....
1. Stop the NoPox.
2. Skim very wet.
3. Took an MJ1200 and blew that mess off anything I could to get it into the water column while turning my wave pumps off.
4. Used a large fine mesh fishnet and scooped as much as I could out.
5. Repeat steps 3 & 4, later as the density was reduced I turned the wave pumps back on and hung the net in front of one to catch the remaining filaments.
6. 20% water change in the morning and again that afternoon.

Good luck.

 

[jsker]

I had pretty much the same happen when I used NoPox, it took a couple of weeks to clear up. It was almost like a bloom of some sorts, but went away. Make sure that you are doing the correct amounts. Are you using a doser?

 

[Salty Carlo]

Yup looks like some stringy bacteria gunk. Is the water cloudy or is it just these stringy bacteria colonies?.

Water isn't cloud just all this stringy stuff everywhere

 

[Salty Carlo]

I had pretty much the same happen when I used NoPox, it took a couple of weeks to clear up. It was almost like a bloom of some sorts, but went away. Make sure that you are doing the correct amounts. Are you using a doser?

No I'm dosing manually. But I have been using NoPox for about 6 months now and this just happened a few days ago

 

[sil40sx]

Bacterial bloom, most likely overdose from Nopox.

I've seen several incidents of these.

Siphon as much as you can, do a big water change. And reduce, or stop Nopox for a while, and make sure you're dosing correct amount of dosage.

I see that you're dosing manually,. could be you double dosed by accident?

 

[jsker]

No I'm dosing manually. But I have been using NoPox for about 6 months now and this just happened a few days ago

I kind of agree with @sil40sx, when I started to auto dose with controlled doses the issue disappeared.

 

[sil40sx]

Oh, and when I said double dosed, I meant you accidentally did it twice the same day.

Reason I mentioned that, because it happened to me recently (good thing its Vibrant, and not chemicals),. Usually, I dose at night, but my schedule fell on a weekend so I did it in the morning, but then I had a brain fart at night and instinctively dose another vibrant in my tank after my daily/nightly routine. LOL

 

[Sean Skelton]

How did you end up solving your clear slime issue ? Been battling same issue myself for some time now