Richmond
Well-Known Member
This morning I moved rock work around. A mushroom moved itself off a plug and I took everything out to look for it. I of course didn't find it. Anyway, I redid the rockwork when I added it back, and changed the flow around a little.
Fast forward 12 hours, I'm looking in the tank under night blue's and see a little ball floating around the sand. It's like a perfect little circle, such that I've never seen before. I immediately blame my kid, assuming he put something in. I use my 24" algae scraper to try and get it out to inspect. As I'm moving it, it starts to open into this stringy/gooey/slimey bright red (glowing) mess. As flow hit it (oops, I didn't turn off pumps), it spiderwebs into a nasty cloud that just kinda starts getting on stuff.
I was able to pull a small section of it out, but most of it got stuck on stuff. The part I pulled out was a clear slime with the red stringy slime attached. What in the heck could this have been?!
Cliff notes / TL;DR - Red ball in reef tank expands into nasty looking snot/algae.
Fast forward 12 hours, I'm looking in the tank under night blue's and see a little ball floating around the sand. It's like a perfect little circle, such that I've never seen before. I immediately blame my kid, assuming he put something in. I use my 24" algae scraper to try and get it out to inspect. As I'm moving it, it starts to open into this stringy/gooey/slimey bright red (glowing) mess. As flow hit it (oops, I didn't turn off pumps), it spiderwebs into a nasty cloud that just kinda starts getting on stuff.
I was able to pull a small section of it out, but most of it got stuck on stuff. The part I pulled out was a clear slime with the red stringy slime attached. What in the heck could this have been?!
Cliff notes / TL;DR - Red ball in reef tank expands into nasty looking snot/algae.
