Can you guess what this growth means

[SantaMonica]

Can you guess what happened to this upflow scrubber? This is the only picture ever found like this, so it's certainly unique. Here are a few different size pics:

 

[MrObscura]

Kill it with fire.


Seriously though, it looks like it was damp and not completely submerged. Those look like mushrooms/fungi and I get some on pieces of drift wood that jutt out of my freshwater tank.

 

[MabuyaQ]

Sure your microwave isn't broken?

Looks like somebody forgot to harvest and fried it with way to much light.

 

[SantaMonica]

Well there was no fire or microwave or mushrooms. But so far good guesses.

 

[TriggerFinger]

The flow was turned off but the light wasn’t? Something died in it?

 

[KrisReef]

It looks like the operations department failed to harvest the algae for a prolonged period of service causing the algae scrubber to grow towards a algal climax community.

Didn’t they know that they were supposed to harvest the algae to export nutrients regularly?

 

[JPergamo]

Calcium precipitation?

 

[wattson]

anemone in a upflow blender,,for say ?

 

[SantaMonica]

No animals died in it. And no precipitation.

I like the nem idea though. But no.

Getting closer.

 

[SantaMonica]

No animals died in it. And no precipitation.

I like the nem idea though. But no.

Getting closer.

 

[DangerDave]

They look like mangrove starting to grow...

 

[SantaMonica]

Mangroves would be nice but no. Would be a good idea... a mangrove module.

 

[SantaMonica]

Other people said...

the brown section got too close to the lighting.

something happened to the bubbler(didnt get cleaned maybe?) then the light cooked the algae? Or the sump went dry, and the light cooked the top portion of the algae? Reason the top looks cooked, and the bottom is still green.

Neglect. The top holes got plugged and it developed an air bubble causing the top portion to die and slime over from the moist air. The black on the bottom is caused by high nutrients from the dead algae on top??

Flow got blocked

 

[Caravanshaka]

I feel like I'm watching a "this is your brain on drugs" commercial

 

[jgvergo]

Aliens invaded your system?

 

[Tom Blevins]

Dr Turf Scrubber popper needed!

 

[TriggerFinger]

The answer is the flow got blocked?

 

[Waynerock]

My wife is gonna get mad you posted a picture of her dinner she made last night!

 

[DangerDave]

 

[SantaMonica]

Lots of food guesses

But some folks are getting close.