Please help ID strange pink slime/algae

[dallast]

My tank has been slowly succumbing to this strange pink gelatinous (snot like) substance. It is tends to grow long and stringy. Grows most everywhere. Hard to blow off with turkey baster. I took some out and placed in a cup, left for two days and it still looked the same! No decay.
Please help!

 

[dallast]

It is not red slime - doesn't cover sand bed. Grows from under corals and along rock surfaces.

 

[Reefing Madness]

What chems are you using in the system?

 

[dallast]

Occasionally drop kalk as top off. Also occasionally dose Bulk Reef Supply two part . I slowed down on the two part as it left a horribly tough to scrape residue on all my glass. Otherwise, that is it!
Thanks.

 

[kkgaskin90]

Did you ever get an answer as to what it was or figure out how to get rid of it? I've got the same issue and have been fighting it several months now

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I'd like to see it in the tank is possible.
Are you carbon dosing or using probiotics?

It sounds like bacteria

 

[Mark2480]

I was about to say the same thing.

 

[kkgaskin90]

I'm assuming since OP was 2014 he no longer has the issue. I just cleaned mine but have pics of it on overflow plumbing. It killed my large bird nest entirely & gums up my plumbing and pumps every 3-4 days. Yes, I carbon dose. No probiotics.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I'm assuming since OP was 2014 he no longer has the issue. I just cleaned mine but have pics of it on overflow plumbing. It killed my large bird nest entirely & gums up my plumbing and pumps every 3-4 days. Yes, I carbon dose. No probiotics.

Yup. Carbon dosing feeds bacteria. That's a colony.

 

[Reefing Madness]

I agree, thats from carbon dosing. Its a by product I like to call snot. I get it myself.

 

[Snuggs]

Is this harmful?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Is this harmful?

no, not really. It can consume a lot of Oxygen out of the water. so if it happens get air in the water.

 

[potatocouch]

no, not really. It can consume a lot of Oxygen out of the water. so if it happens get air in the water.

How to increase soluble oxygen into the water? increase the surface agitation? I hardly think air stone will do any help.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

How to increase soluble oxygen into the water? increase the surface agitation? I hardly think air stone will do any help.

Both. It's a long debated topic and a lot of good articles out there. See R Farleys here on the r2r.

The variables how wel it works are Theses. How big is the pump in gph of air. Head loss from tube. What's the size of the stone and what's the water volume plus the Existing PH of the water at the time.
So it's hard to calculate how well any of this works. But is it does work to some extent it's worth doing.

But over all the above if are done it should help.

A goofy thing to do is put the airsone in a length of pipe and put it in the tank. The air will pull the water up the pipe and create big flow and lots of bubbles.

 

[Teufel72]

Well I have the same problem. So for it mostly end un in my sump but there is more everyday im my dt. Pain in the butt. I taugh it could be Bacteria and I was dosing Red sea NO3O4-X. I will stop for a while to see if it help. I will also add more air with a Stone

 

[potatocouch]

Well I have the same problem. So for it mostly end un in my sump but there is more everyday im my dt. Pain in the ***. I taugh it could be Bacteria and I was dosing Red sea NO3O4-X. I will stop for a while to see if it help. I will also add more air with a Stone

Personally I won't stop.

Reduction perhaps.

 

[Teufel72]

Personally I won't stop.

Reduction perhaps.

May be yes. Will add half to see if it change

 

[Snuggs]

I have the same stuff, grew in my sump, DT, return hoses etc. dose nopox. Stopped for 2 days, then reduced. Only slightly helped, but the cyano bloomed like crazy. Dosed chemiclean(it was that bad). Took care of both issues.

 

[Teufel72]

I have the same stuff, grew in my sump, DT, return hoses etc. dose nopox. Stopped for 2 days, then reduced. Only slightly helped, but the cyano bloomed like crazy. Dosed chemiclean(it was that bad). Took care of both issues.

Im trying exactly that right now. Hope it will help

 

[Snuggs]

Im trying exactly that right now. Hope it will help

Let me know if it worked for you .....of note, I had a diatom bloom that was short lived after this. Phosphate and nitrate were 0 per Hanna checker, too lazy to check silicates. Threw in a small piece of phosphate pad, and it cleared