Ugly Sponges/stringy stuff in my tank

Breakthecycle2 · Dec 23, 2015

So what's the consensus? WHat is it and how the heck do I get rid of it? I just had to do another water change because I turkey basted all the rocks. It comes off very easily. I am getting pineapple sponge growth, but so far it seems to just be in the fuge.

Breakthecycle2 · Dec 23, 2015

I'm not sure it's chrysophytes. It "sort" of looks like that, but it's not clumped together forming anything like that. They are pretty much long stringy and singly, rather then grouped.

Breakthecycle2 · Dec 23, 2015

Unless this picture (not mine) is chrysophytes. Mine look pretty close to this.

Breakthecycle2 · Dec 23, 2015

BTW @twilliard any idea when I can add more snails back after the fenbenzole?

twilliard · Dec 23, 2015

Breakthecycle2 said:
BTW @twilliard any idea when I can add more snails back after the fenbenzole?

As long as the cleanup process was followed you should be good to go!

Breakthecycle2 · Dec 23, 2015

twilliard said:
As long as the cleanup process was followed you should be good to go!

Well I added an urchin and some snails about a month after and they all died.

twilliard · Dec 23, 2015

Odd long spine and short spine urchins tested with no side effects.
Should be out of the clear unless rock is covered in algaes and bendazole not cleaned up
If left in longer than the maximum 30 hours it will bind with the algaes.
Plop in a turbo

Breakthecycle2 · Dec 23, 2015

twilliard said:
Odd long spine and short spine urchins tested with no side effects.
Should be out of the clear unless rock is covered in algaes and bendazole not cleaned up
If left in longer than the maximum 30 hours it will bind with the algaes.
Plop in a turbo

Nah, I only left in for 24 hours and did all those water changes. Starfish keep dying too.

kireek · Dec 24, 2015

The picture in your first post looks like a undesirable type of sponge to me.It tends to slime when you remove it from surfaces.You last posted photo looked liked Vermetid snail discharge or coral slime.Just my two cents.

Jizu Puentes · Dec 24, 2015

Sorry man but this isn't chrysophytes so I am unsure whether upping your snail population would help.

Jizu Puentes · Dec 24, 2015

Sorry man but this isn't chrysophytes so I am unsure whether up pig your snail population would help.

Jizu Puentes · Dec 24, 2015

Sorry man but this isn't chrysophytes so I am unsure whether up pig your snail population would help.

Jizu Puentes · Dec 24, 2015

From what I can tell it isn't dinoflagellates or chrysophytes. I've only seen this stuff in one other persons tank and he eventually removed the rock and replaced it with new live rock :/ . How long had the tank been set up before this slime appeared and where did the rock come from?

Breakthecycle2 · Dec 24, 2015

The rock was dry rock. It came from a reputable person and it doesn't leach anything.

Breakthecycle2 · Dec 24, 2015

@Randy Holmes-Farley @Lionfish Lair Do you guys have any idea what this is??

Lionfish Lair · Dec 24, 2015

It's good you tagged Randy, as he was keenly interested in slime on another forum. Most of it pointed to things such as dosing different products/vodka/vitamin C/etc, but I would be guessing at this point. I've never really looked into dosing anything, so that's not something I'm "up on".

Breakthecycle2 · Dec 24, 2015

Lionfish Lair said:
It's good you tagged Randy, as he was keenly interested in slime on another forum. Most of it pointed to things such as dosing different products/vodka/vitamin C/etc, but I would be guessing at this point. I've never really looked into dosing anything, so that's not something I'm "up on".

I cannot find anything online even close to what this is. It's got to be a bacteria bloom, but then again anything is possible.