Removed marinepure spheres, brown slime outbreak!

[bobnicaragua]

I removed 2 bags of marine pure spheres from my sump. Nitrates and phosphates are always undetectable in my barebottom sps tank. I thought this might help bring them up.

So a week later I have stringy brown algae on everything. Snails and tangs eat it, but it's getting worse. You can blow it off, but it comes back worse. So far acros are fine.

Should I add the marine pure back into the sump?

 

[vetteguy53081]

To help break down, what I would do is:
- add additional snails
- loosen up the slime with a turkey baster and siphon and/or net it
- add a pouch of chemipure blue to absorb any toxins and polish water and keeping no3/po4 in check
- add 1.5 ml of hydrogen peroxide per 10 gallons at night will destroy their cells
- Reduce White light intensity or turn off white light altogether for 5 days
- add 1ml of liquid bacteria per 10 gallons during the day which defeats the bad bacteria that feeds this stuff

you will see results in 72 hours but go the full 5 days

 

[bobnicaragua]

I added more snails, and have been turkey basting and netting.

Microbacter clean and chemipure arrives tomorrow. I will stop running halides and only run t5 blue plus and orphrek blue plus.

 

[bobnicaragua]

Its starting to engulf some of the acros. Just turned off the lights early and dosed hydrogen peroxide for the first time. Followings all of the above suggestions now.

 

[saltyhog]

What are your parameters? Still undetectable NO3 and PO4? Does the brown stringy stuff go away at night?

I would get a picture (preferably a video) under a microscope. This quite possibly be dinos....if it is, your low nutrients are an obstacle to getting it better. There are also some other things that might help if a positive ID can be made. Trying multiple courses of action without knowing what you're treating could end poorly IME.

 

[bobnicaragua]

It is better today. Nitrates and phosphates still undetectable. It doesn't go away at night, but it does get worse during the day when the lights are on.

 

[JumboShrimp]

Did this problem go away?

 

[BiggestE222]

It is better today. Nitrates and phosphates still undetectable. It doesn't go away at night, but it does get worse during the day when the lights are on.

Dinos

 

[bobnicaragua]

It did not go away until I added a jebao 55w UV sterilizer.

 

[JumboShrimp]

Interesting.