Ugly Sponges/stringy stuff in my tank

[saltyfilmfolks]

Todd The waste away is a bacterial additive prime etc. Or cycling agent. I was steering away from it use as its likely bacterial colonies IMO. yea maybe an algae too or sponge, waiting on Lionfishlair on that.
Heres the backstory if you have time
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/just-cleaned-my-skimmer-and-sump.226436/#post-2631454

 

[twilliard]

Ya where is she! Sleeping lol

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Ordering florida live rock for the new hitchhiker only tank

I sooo want one.

 

[twilliard]

Ordering florida live rock for the new hitchhiker only tank

I sooo want one.

Ohh make me jealous!!
@KJ
@melypr1985

Ideas please!

 

[4FordFamily]

I would leave it alone and address whatever that bacteria eats instead. I do not like using chemi clean I think of it as symptom management rather than root cause analysis

 

[twilliard]

I would leave it alone and address whatever that bacteria eats instead. I do not like using chemi clean I think of it as symptom management rather than root cause analysis

I guess I was more after if it was a bacteria. Chemiclean may show this to be a bacteria.
Chemiclean is the only anti bacterial that I know of that is harmless to good bacteria.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Ya where is she! Sleeping lol

I totally slept in until 11am. I haven't done that in years!

Can you grab on to some of it and remove it? Notice the texture, like if it's slimy and also if it breaks apart easily or not. See if it maintains any sort of structure once it's out of the water. Grab unto some from the rocks and the side of the tank on the glass, to make sure they have the same characteristics.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

How long did that take to appear? Over a few days or did you wake up one morning and go "Ai yi yi!".

 

[twilliard]

I totally slept in until 11am. I haven't done that in years!

Can you grab on to some of it and remove it? Notice the texture, like if it's slimy and also if it breaks apart easily or not. See if it maintains any sort of structure once it's out of the water. Grab unto some from the rocks and the side of the tank on the glass, to make sure they have the same characteristics.

Good morning!

 

[Breakthecycle2]

How long did that take to appear? Over a few days or did you wake up one morning and go "Ai yi yi!".

Both. When I was fishless I started seeing little white stringy things on the glass that went away and now I see them again. I believe it's the same thing. YEs, it almost was one day I woke up and saw this stuff.

 

[Breakthecycle2]

I totally slept in until 11am. I haven't done that in years!

Can you grab on to some of it and remove it? Notice the texture, like if it's slimy and also if it breaks apart easily or not. See if it maintains any sort of structure once it's out of the water. Grab unto some from the rocks and the side of the tank on the glass, to make sure they have the same characteristics.

It comes off easily and has a slime fee to it. It does not seem to break apart easily, but it does scrape off without much effort.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

And you don't have a lionfish or a scorpionfish, right?

 

[Breakthecycle2]

And you don't have a lionfish or a scorpionfish, right?

No
Quoyi Parrotfish
Yellow Scopas Tang
Pair of pintail wrasses
Kathrines male fairy wrasse
Golden Pygmy Angel
Cleaner wrasse
Caribbean deep water snow bass
Pair of Lightning Maroon Clowns
Two Moorish Idols

Feed twice a day - spiralina brine, mysis pellets or reef frenzy. I was feeding Reef Nutritions Mysis Feast and though the "gel" packed into with the mysis was causing it. I have not fed that in about a week though. I didn't realize how thick it was.

Also, there is always two sheets of seaweed daily.

 

[ermartin]

All these suggestions on how to get rid of it. but Id be more interested in what it is first before i would not start to treat for something unknown. unless i missed a post where someone actually identified what it was, You seem to have a lot of Wrasses dont a lot of them sleep in a slime cocoon at night. does it disappear over the day or does it reproduce ?

 

[Breakthecycle2]

All these suggestions on how to get rid of it. but Id be more interested in what it is first before i would start to treat for something unknown. unless i missed a post where someone actually identified what it was, Yo seem to have a lot of Wrasses dont a lot of them sleep in a slime cacoon at night. does it disappear over the day or does it reproduce ?

Its only three wrasses. It is actually similar to that cocoon then build, however, there is enough "slime" here for about 3 dozen wrasses.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

When people can't really ID this slime, they usually say it's a "bacterial blom". I don't know what actually supports that theory, however. I've never run across someone actually putting it under a microscope and properly IDing it. The phrase "bacterial bloom" is thrown around unsupported way to often. I mean no offense to others' IDs, and I too agree it looks like what has been coined a bacteria bloom, but exactly what are we looking at in those other cases? Who has properly looked into it? I'm not saying no one has, I just cannot find the source of it. I'm going to hunt around in some of the dosing discussions, as I know they've had some blooms to read about. Wasn't there a lot of blooms with amino acids or such? I'm a little (alot) out of touch with that whole practice.

So what it's not....
- not a lionfish cuticle.
- not a tunicate
- not hydroids
- doesn't look like a sponge
- not a vermetid
- not a ctenophore
- not algae/dinos
- not a wrasse bed

.... you can see how easy it is to say it's a bacterial bloom........

I wish you lived closer than Jersey, Santa is bringing me a camera for my microscope.

 

[Breakthecycle2]

When people can't really ID this slime, they usually say it's a "bacterial blom". I don't know what actually supports that theory, however. I've never run across someone actually putting it under a microscope and properly IDing it. The phrase "bacterial bloom" is thrown around unsupported way to often. I mean no offense to others' IDs, and I too agree it looks like what has been coined a bacteria bloom, but exactly what are we looking at in those other cases? Who has properly looked into it? I'm not saying no one has, I just cannot find the source of it. I'm going to hunt around in some of the dosing discussions, as I know they've had some blooms to read about. Wasn't there a lot of blooms with amino acids or such? I'm a little (alot) out of touch with that whole practice.

So what it's not....
- not a lionfish cuticle.
- not a tunicate
- not hydroids
- doesn't look like a sponge
- not a vermetid
- not a ctenophore
- not algae/dinos
- not a wrasse bed

.... you can see how easy it is to say it's a bacterial bloom........

I wish you lived closer than Jersey, Santa is bringing me a camera for my microscope.

I appreciate any help you can offer. I could throw some in a container and send some to you. I was also dosing fuel, two or three times a week.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Ohhhhhhhh..... fuel...... that's definitely where I'll start the reading then. I bet there are some studies with that stuff and bacterial blooms......

 

[Breakthecycle2]

Ohhhhhhhh..... fuel...... that's definitely where I'll start the reading then. I bet there are some studies with that stuff and bacterial blooms......

Thank you so much.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Can you tell me who makes "Fuel".