Pink snot all over sump

[jhadaway]

I have a pink slime on my power heads and everywhere in my sump. My carbon/gfo reactor was completely clogged and my skimmer is making super thick skimmate that is coming out of the holes in the collection cup. It looks like it’s out if Ghostbusters 2. Im guessing its bacterial. It did treat my canary blenny with neoplex soaked food for 5 days. I ran heavy on carbon and did a 40% water change after treatment.
Is this a massive bacterial bounce back? I’m dosing some microbacter clean but nothing has changed so far.
Think of the movie poltergeist when they brought the little girl back. It’s really nasty.

Any treatment ideas?

Alk is 9.5
Magi is 1370
Cal is 380
Ph 8.1-8.3

 

[blaxsun]

Pictures or it didn't happen, lol...
What are your nitrate and phosphate levels like? What do you run for filtration, ie: filter socks, etc.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have a pink slime on my power heads and everywhere in my sump. My carbon/gfo reactor was completely clogged and my skimmer is making super thick skimmate that is coming out of the holes in the collection cup. It looks like it’s out if Ghostbusters 2. Im guessing its bacterial. It did treat my canary blenny with neoplex soaked food for 5 days. I ran heavy on carbon and did a 40% water change after treatment.
Is this a massive bacterial bounce back? I’m dosing some microbacter clean but nothing has changed so far.
Think of the movie poltergeist when they brought the little girl back. It’s really nasty.

Any treatment ideas?

Alk is 9.5
Magi is 1370
Cal is 380
Ph 8.1-8.3

As requested- will need pics under white lighting. Its bacterial- just need to identify what type

 

[flashsmith]

I had the same issue until I figured out I was dosing too much nopox. Definitely bacterial, It won't hurt anything. About the only thing you can do is stir it up with a turkey baster and let the filtration pull it out. It's gonna take awhile though. That's the safest way I know of without adding anything else in the mix that could feed it. I don't know what you're dosing but I would stop the microbacter dosing. That possibly could be feeding it and making it worse.

 

[jhadaway]

I never get any phosphate or nitrates to register. The algae always gets it before i get reading. I change filter every 3 days and i run carbon and gfo. Reef octopus 150 for skimmer.
The pink slime does sound like what i have read about the nitrate reactors when they start up. I do dose vinegar. That makes some sense. Antibiotic reduces my bacterial population a little and the carbon dosing gets tipped into overdrive.
I’ll get some shots in the morning! Thanks all!

 

[jda]

Do you have biopellets or are using any organic carbon?

 

[jhadaway]

I dose vinegar once per day. I cut it off tonight. I will have to start the progression over once this slime settles down.

 

[blaxsun]

I does vinegar once per day. I cut it off tonight. I will have to start the progression over once this slime settles down.

It sounds really, really gross...

 

[jhadaway]

Hope you haven’t eaten recently. I think Lord Vego is in there. Why am i drippings viff goo? Help!!!

 

[Alexusmc]

The crap that I have growing in my tank. smh

 

[kenchilada]

According to Ghostbusters 2, this is Psychomagnotheric Slime. If you play Motown music at loud volumes your tank will dance.

 

[IntrinsicReef]

I have seen that same slime on systems that carbon dose vodka and NoPox. Maybe dial back your vinegar. The bacteria is probably outcompeting algae, and you might get an algae outbreak if you stop all together

 

[jhadaway]

I stopped carbon dosing vinegar a few months back and it slowly died off. Seems i was overdoing it. On the downside i now have a pretty big gha outbreak. Im now on a mission to get my refugium on overdrive. If that doesn't work im building an algae scrubber! All over the ghostbusters reference. Why am i drippings wiff goo?

 

[Isaac Alves]

I have this in my sump as well. And I do DIY Nopox dosing. I've been dialing it back slowly. I do scoop this stuff out every once in a while when it gets too gross for me. I never see it in the sump.

I assume this is can be potential food for coral and copepods.

I do wish I knew for sure if there was any detriment to touching it with bare hands.

 

[DaJMasta]

I've got a browner variant from vodka dosing, so I suspect they're pretty closely related. Turning it down a bit does help, but you may see some benefit from dosing closer to the return, it may not build up as much in higher flow areas.