White strands...?
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HudsonReefer
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I don't believe that is snail spawn. I've attached a photo of what that commonly looks like. That appears to maybe be some coral discharge, algae or bacteria. I'm leaning to bacteria though as it don't look photosynthetic like algae. Do you have it anywhere else in the tank? What is your water chemistry?I have white strands on the glass hanging from the water line. They wave in the flow and some have balls of white stuff at the end. Is this snail spawning or something similar?
Bryson.bobby
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Not sure what that is. It’s likely caused by the low nutrients (nitrates and phosphates)
HudsonReefer
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I’m leaning towards bacteria bloom of some kind. I’d run some chemiclean and remove carbon. If you go that route make sure you leave your skimmer running thru the treatment and use half the recommended dosage at first. You don’t want to shock the system
Best way to kill a tank is to follow this advice...... Throw some antibiotics at an unknown problem killing (part of) your benificial bacteria as well.
Not certain but could be some bacterial growth after dosing a carbon source, but it looks more like coral mucus or even a mucus cocoon from a wrasse.
HudsonReefer
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Lol @maybuyaQ yeah definitely going to take his whole system out with a half dose of a time tested and common cure for bacteria blooms.
@ Brian.badge Like I said in a prior post, it looks like a bacterial bloom or coral discharge. I’m not telling you to dose chemiclean. I’m telling you that if you believe it’s bacterial that is the method thousands of reefers have used including myself without any ill effects. I’m also telling you to half the normal dose to test the effects just Incase. I’m assuming you can see if it’s coming from coral or not otherwise you wouldn’t ask. You also stated your only skimming and not dosing a carbon source. I also highly doubt that’s wrasse cocoon mucus as they don’t do that on glass, they do it on rock caves they dwell in. If it was it disappears quite quickly.
