brown strands of slime coming from zoo's?

[BeeBoo]

just got back from work and noticed these brown strands floating all over my tank. it's coming from my pink zoo colony. should i be worried?

 

[Bebo77]

test your water... did you do something different lately?

 

[BeeBoo]

i don't have a test kit. haven't done anything out of the ordinary. i feed my dendros every other day. is this a bad thing? should i remove them from my tank?

 

[dodgerblew]

sounds like it might be cyano

 

[BeeBoo]

good, bad? should i quarantine?

 

[dodgerblew]

I can't tell you good or bad, I am not seeing it, just voicing an opinion.
Cyanobacteria, "if" it is that, occurs naturally. It is normally brought on by your water quality changing in a poor way, i.e. high phosphates or possibly overfeeding. It can be a brown to a red slime and it can actually grow over your zoas and they will close. You can do a water change and use your siphon to suck up the strands. If its cyano you should see it elsewhere; look on your rocks, sandbed etc.

Here is some info on cyano:
http://reefshow.com/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=109


I hope you are able to figure it out on what it is

 

[BeeBoo]

i appreciate the help. thanks.

 

[dodgerblew]

NP

 

[billyzbear]

Awhile ago I had something simular. It was from my tank temps being too high. I now have a chiller. What else is in the tank? Are they looking ok? I would do a water change to be safe, atleast 10%.
Cyano is red.

 

[BeeBoo]

i have several other zoo's, dendros, leathers, hammerhead and a sun coral in th tank. everything looks fine. i just did a water change. we'll see how things go in the morning.

 

[energy_crisis]

zoo diarrhea