Small white hairs on glass

[Bryan47]

Can't quite figure this one out!

I am getting small white hairs on my 25 gallon IM lagoon inside glass.

It doesn't appear to be algae as they are white. Maybe something silicate based?

They aren't very long and I can whipe them away with an aquarium magnet cleaner/sponge or my hand but within an hour they start appearing again.

I recently had my gfo grind up on me and got some brown slime/crud in the rear sump area but I cleaned all of this out. I just thought I would share that in case there is a connection.

Here are some pictures! Any help on what they are and how to get them to stop appearing would be greatly appreciated!

These two are taken from above the tank and are of the side glass on the inside of the tank.

This one is taken from the outside of the glass:

 

[Zoey]

is this a new setup?

 

[Bryan47]

Probably been up for two months but the live rock and about 20 percent of the water came from my prior setup. Sand is aragalive special grade reef sand.

I can't for the life of me figure out what they are. Or if they are even a live organism or just some type of particulate matter.

 

[Zoey]

i think its a type of algae, could be that tank is still cycling? getting some snails to shift it would be my guess

 

[Bryan47]

I viewed under 45x after wiping off with a paper towel and all it really looked like was "crud" or detritus but as I'm writing this it just hit me how I overlooked that it would be hard to see white hairs on a white paper towel. I wiped them all off and turned off all flow and will wait and see if they appear.

If it isn't live I'm wondering what would cause it to attach in such a string like structure and how it's holding on so well. I'm going to head down to the local pet shop and get some really fine floss or polishing pads to put in front of the overflow and I'll direct the flow to the overflows with them wiped off if they are in the water column.

 

[Bdog4u2]

Possibly some sort of algae with particulates from tank sticking to it
Making it look white..... just a guess

 

[Hoisted]

I viewed under 45x after wiping off with a paper towel and all it really looked like was "crud" or detritus but as I'm writing this it just hit me how I overlooked that it would be hard to see white hairs on a white paper towel. I wiped them all off and turned off all flow and will wait and see if they appear.

If it isn't live I'm wondering what would cause it to attach in such a string like structure and how it's holding on so well. I'm going to head down to the local pet shop and get some really fine floss or polishing pads to put in front of the overflow and I'll direct the flow to the overflows with them wiped off if they are in the water column.

Hey Bryan did you ever figure out what that was? I'm having something very similar I came home today and my entire glass was filled with these things.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Hey Bryan did you ever figure out what that was? I'm having something very similar I came home today and my entire glass was filled with these things.

Bryan hasn't been on here in about 6 years. In my experience, it's some sort of algae that seems to attract detritus... Just scrape it off like any other algae on the glass.

 

[Hoisted]

Bryan hasn't been on here in about 6 years. In my experience, it's some sort of algae that seems to attract detritus... Just scrape it off like any other algae on the glass.

Thanks for the reply. I've never seen this before, hopefully it goes away scraping everyday and doing wc is all I can do