NP bio pellets and clear snot in my sump

[Vincent100]

hi all
I run np bio pellets and today I noticed a clear snot in my sump
It's all on the pipe that come off my reactor and is on the bottom of the sump glass we're the pipe spits the water out
Iv run the pellets for months and never noticed anything like this
Any thoughts anyone ???
Nothing has changed in my tank apart from a Couple new bits of rock and iv upped my temp from 25.5c to 26.6 slowly over the last week ......getting cold in the uk
I'll try and get a pic in a min just doing a water change .....at 1.30am uk time lol

 

[Vincent100]

See .... ?????

 

[jsker]

What does the rest of the system look like?

 

[skim]

WHO YOU GONNA CALL " REEF BUSTERS ". Perfect time of year for the SNOTTY SLIME TO APPEAR, could it be all that has passed on in your Tank has come back to haunt you, will the SLIME climb out as you sleep only to smoother you as you are in dreamland. Will the SNOTTY SLIME come and get you as you sleep and drag you back to your Aquarium only to shrink you down and drag you into and to the bottom of the depths of your Aquarium where you would found in the morning with your legs hanging from your favorite Anemone among st its tentacles.
WHO YOU GONNA CALL " REEF BUSTERS "
HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO YOU ALL !

Sorry just could not resist. You made no comment on a skimmer do you have one and if so what kind. As for the SNOTTY SLIME, just too much on the pellets, remove some and direct the out put to your input of the skimmer and watch your skimmer you may have to adjust as it will not be the SNOTTY SLIME coming to get you it will be the STINKY FOAM coming to engulf you.

 

[Vincent100]

Jasker , it's just in the sump and not to much of it

Skim lol had me laughing
Iv a deltec sc1351 , good skimmer
Iv posted a pic of the reactor so you can see the amount of pellets in it .......its off in the pic lol
Gonna point the pipe right at the skimmer and see what happens in the next few days

 

[skim]

I had the same thing happen awhile back. you could also slow the tumbling down or should say water input to the pellets it maybe washing the Bio film too quickly of the pellets.

 

[R_C]

Bacteria bloom. Play with the amount of flow going into it and It will go away. Same thing happened to me

 

[Salty1962]

Looks like bacteria.

 

[Vincent100]

Hi all
Iv slowed the flow down on the pump going into the reactor so the pellets are tumbling abit slower
I cleared all of the snot away last night when I was doing a water change
Gonna have a look tonight and see if there's any more
Bored tank shots lol

 

[csb123]

It is the bacterial snot that we want the biopellets to grow. Make sure that effluent is going into the intake of your skimmer. For my system I had to increase the water turnover rate through my reactor to wash it out of there. Otherwise the pellets would start sticking/clumping together.