Help! Weird Stringy Opaque stuff in my tank (Pic inside)

[rtirado]

<span style="font-size: 13px;">Can anyone help identify what the heck this is? It looks almost like what a coral does when its distressed and starts sliming up, but its appearing on rocks, the glass and in the sump mostly near the filter sock. My fish and corals all look happy so I don't think its something negative (at least not yet).:yuk:
Most importantly, how do I get rid of it! lol
This is the best picture I could get of it this morning.
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[johniii]

Are you carbon dosing

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[rtirado]

I have the Seachem matrix Carbon in there, just a small bag of it in a higher flow area of the sump. Does it need replacing?

 

[jennm]

Carbon dosing is different from the use of activated carbon (which is what the Matrix Carbon is).

It's probably just detritus. Is it just in the sump or in the tank proper?

Jenn

 

[rtirado]

Its in all the areas. Sump and overflow is where I see it the most because theres very little flow and can probably accumulate more.
I was moving my bag of denitrate from the old setup to this new one and I accidentally ripped the bag it was in, I'm wondering if there was some weird stuff (bacteria) trapped in that media bag. IDK
I also believe this slimy stuff is whats clogging my filter socks up so rapidly. I really cleaned one of them out with bleach and many rinses/scrubbing and the next day it was overflowing again.

 

[jennm]

Odd. I know there are some organisms like vermatid snails that put out a web-like substance to catch particles, but it's unlikely that there are that many in your tank.

I doubt the Denitrate is to blame either.

Jenn

 

[ralph atl]

it sounds like bacteria....

 

[rtirado]

Thats what I'm thinking mysterybox, I just dont know what is making it spread, gonna do a water change tonight to see if it helps.

 

[johniii]

mysterybox;771355 wrote: it sounds like bacteria....

+1 that's why I asked if he was carbon dosing. When I started dosing vodka I got the same kind of stringy strands. They went away on there own though.

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[rtirado]

Yea I've been reading a little on it and sounds like I just need to do weekly 20% water changes and run my skimmer a little more wet until it all goes away.

 

[rtirado]

Here are some better shots of it. I sucked up most of what I could last night during my water change.
I'm not sure if its related yet or not, but I seem to have lost one of my cleaner shrimp yesterday as well. The second one looks fine but I'm keeping an eye on him.

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[rdnelson]

Crazy stuff. Hope you figure out what it is.

 

[heathlindner25]

No chance its brissel worms ? I have a big one and he throws out webs to catch food.