what is this stuff...

[Darin Mendoza]

Anyone know what this brown stringy stuff is...I can't get rid of it ?
It attaches itself the glass, rocks everything.......

 

[Saltyreef]

Dinos

 

[W1ngz]

Dinoflagellates. Siphon what you can. Use the Search, there's thousands of threads that ask about it.

 

[Darin Mendoza]

Ok thank you... I've had dinos before but it was just brown on the sand and rocks..not stringy and long... If thats all it is then i'm not worried... Thank you

 

[LARedstickreefer]

Ok thank you... I've had dinos before but it was just brown on the sand and rocks..not stringy and long... If thats all it is then i'm not worried... Thank you

You should be.

 

[W1ngz]

Ok thank you... I've had dinos before but it was just brown on the sand and rocks..not stringy and long... If thats all it is then i'm not worried... Thank you

Impossible to say without having seen what you had before, but it sounds like what you had before was diatoms, which die off fairly quickly. Dinos are not the same at all, and if left alone with no change in how you manage the tank, nitrate, PO4 levels and manual removal, will start to kill things.

 

[vetteguy53081]

This type of dino from my personal experience will kill and starve coral of nutrients.
You want to start an east treatment regimen:
- Take a turkey baster and loosen as much as you can of the stringy stuff. Then siphon it and anything you can siphon.
- Add fresh saltwater mix and then add 1ml of hydrogen Peroxide per 10 gal of water at lights out for 4 days.
- Speaking of lights, set them lowest blue and NO white during this time.
- At day 2, loosen dino with turkey baster and try to force to sump.

DAY 4 YOU WILL NOTICE A HUGE IMPROVEMENT. if DINO IS STUBBORN AND WANTS TO NOT LOOSEN ALL THE WAY, LOWER YOUR SUMP WATER AND ALLOW A STREAM OF BUBBLES TO ENTER TANK. THOSE BUBBLES WILL ELEVATE THE DINO AND FLOAT RIGHT TO YOUR OVERFLOW.