need help

navila06 · May 22, 2013

I have no Idea what this is, and how to get rid of it. this is not a pic of my tank but I found this and it resembles my issues 100%
it is in the sump mostly , and I found a couple small patches in the DT. any help would be appreciated.

eliramos · May 22, 2013

hmm some kind of mucus...do you have any wrasses or anything?

FragDaddy · May 22, 2013

is it just on the surface or actually in the water column?

PaulKreider · May 22, 2013

Mmmmmm Jelly fish jelly:tongue: But im stumped, something has to be secreting it?

navila06 · May 22, 2013

I have one six line wrasse, and it is mostly on the surface of the sump, but there is very little on submerged power cords also.

navila06 · May 22, 2013

made me think of spongebob real quick, I have a very small amount of soft corals, mostly zoas and a toadstool which is only a couple inches tall.

PaulKreider said:
Mmmmmm Jelly fish jelly:tongue: But im stumped, something has to be secreting it?

FragDaddy · May 22, 2013

navila06 said:
I have one six line wrasse, and it is mostly on the surface of the sump, but there is very little on submerged power cords also.

i say its lack of flow in the sump or should i say lack of movement on the water surface in the sump.. i have seen this before and i dont believe is created by a animal but i could be totally wrong!

redfishbluefish · May 22, 2013

What's your pH. I know when I had a pH problem, where it was very low, I'd get this snot-like bacterial bloom. Once I raised my pH, it went away.

FragDaddy · May 22, 2013

redfishbluefish said:
What's your pH. I know when I had a pH problem, where it was very low, I'd get this snot-like bacterial bloom. Once I raised my pH, it went away.

Also a possibility!

IGROZOAS · May 22, 2013

This might be a shot in the dark..but I use to have a rimless frag tank in my bedroom and I use to get that film on top of my tank. Couldnt figure it out for the longest time. Then I watched my wife one day spraying hairspray all around her head. Then I put it together that it was the mist of the hairspray that made that film on top. For some reason the saltwater separated from mixing in and I use to have to skim it off the top. I told her to do her hair in the other bathroom and it went away. Maybe something you spray around the area to clean. Just an idea.

navila06 · May 22, 2013

my ph varies from 7.8-8.0.

redfishbluefish said:
What's your pH. I know when I had a pH problem, where it was very low, I'd get this snot-like bacterial bloom. Once I raised my pH, it went away.

navila06 · May 22, 2013

the family id very good about not spraying around the tank, but I do have one of those automatic misters that spray every 9 minutes about 15 feet from the tank. so I will turn it off for a little while and see what happens.

IGROZOAS said:
This might be a shot in the dark..but I use to have a rimless frag tank in my bedroom and I use to get that film on top of my tank. Couldnt figure it out for the longest time. Then I watched my wife one day spraying hairspray all around her head. Then I put it together that it was the mist of the hairspray that made that film on top. For some reason the saltwater separated from mixing in and I use to have to skim it off the top. I told her to do her hair in the other bathroom and it went away. Maybe something you spray around the area to clean. Just an idea.

navila06 · May 24, 2013

this is appeering in more areas of the display tank...this dosen't make sense since my perameters are all in check. anyone with anymore sugesstions.

navila06 · May 25, 2013

still need help, nothing is working, should I try microblift special blend? I was going to use it for a small cyano problem i had, but wierd thig is the cyano disapeered and this stuff took it's place.