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I’ll attach a couple of pics. I’m pretty sure it’s what I have I’ve cleaned rock while doing water changes and the next week it’s right back. I used a bottle of Dino X to no avail which made me think maybe it’s not that and something else. Either way I’ve had no luck at removing so any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
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Were you ever able to get an idea of what this is or how to deal with this?
No not sure like I mentioned I used an entire bottle of Dino x as specified on the label and nothing. I’m currently in day 3 of blackout in my tank hoping this will help stunt this stuff. It’s like a brown jelly almost.
 

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I have a similar problem going in right now. My own fault due to neglect for the past few months. I did a round of chemi-clear just to rule out Cyanobacteria. I’m also gonna do a few more water changes and then try some of the methods to this article. Good luck. I also read that adding some phytoplankton and more coepods.

https://aquariumstoredepot.com/blogs/news/how-to-get-rid-of-dinoflagellates
 

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Any luck w your issue. I have def made a turn for the better with mine. Hopefully this info can help. The chemiclean did nothing more then likely prob delayed progress in this situation.
After doing more reading I really felt that one of my problems was lack of nutrients in the water. Some of what I did seem counter productive to change that but needed to be done anyways for overall tank health. Again most of the problems were my own doing and lack of maintenance.
1) I did a water change and blew as much off of where it was sticking and manually removed as much as I could.
2) I turned back on my UV
3) Replaced my carbon
4) Replaced my phosban
5) added a new poly filter
6) and what I think was most important started to feed my tank and get the nutrients back up.
100% disclosure I did not test my water before hand and haven’t tested it yet either so maybe my theory of low nutrients is wrong. But with my overall lack of care the past few months it made sense.
It has been two days and the amount of brown stringy slug is def not growing. And most of it has disappeared.
Hopefully this helps you.
 

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