Please help!!! Clear/whitish slime coating?

pookstreet

Registered Stick Killer
I have been battling with this clear/whitish slimy coat on both of my work tanks for the better part of a month now and it just won't go away. For the lack of a better description, it looks literally like snot. It covers the tank sides, powerheads, some rock surfaces. It doesn't seem to have a major effect on the livestock yet but I am afraid that it'll smother the corals soon. I have done many water changes and it goes away for a few days but comes back over the weekend. Can't get a good picture of this stuff. Does anyone know what this is and how to get rid of it? Thanks.
 
Sounds like some sort of Bacterial bloom. Is there a skimmer on the tank? When dosing vodka you get a very simular bloom and the key is to export the nutrient laden bacteria via the skimmer. Hope this helps. Since the issue is on both tanks I would also suspect a problem with something that is being added to the tank (ie: top-off water, overfeeding, heat in the building,...).
 
Greg,

Thanks for the input. I was thinking also that it was bacteria related.

I do have a skimmer on one of the tanks but the other one is skimmerless. You were right about having something in common. The skimmerless tank crashed about a month ago and I transferred a few pieces of surviving corals into the other tank. Unfortunately, this is where we are at right now.

Any ideas on how to solve the problem if there isn't a skimmer, besides doing lots of water changes?
 
by dropping live rock on it accidentally :D
so you're saying that you cannot pinpoint the source correct? its just "in the water column"?
Kenny if you want me to hold any of your corals let me know, i may have a hard time returning them though :D
 
Yeah right......

You are welcome to hold all the dead corals I got. If you are lucky enough, maybe you get some of my special slime for your tank. No need to return that tho.
 
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