Foamy white/clear slime on top of sump water...

[Coastie Reefer]

I have this nasty stuff all over the drain section of my sump. My frag tank is also cloudy with stringy white slime all over the eggcrate... bacteria bloom of some sort or something else.?!? It’s literally like snot, but doesn’t have a smell.

Never seen this stuff before.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Sounds like a bacterial bloom yes.
And carbon dosing bio pellets nopox scented candles painting ?

 

[Coastie Reefer]

@saltyfilmfolks
Funny I almost tagged you in my original post

No carbon dosing. No biopellets. No nopox. No candles. Did have a glade air freshener in there but took it out a fewweeks ago. The only other thing is some newly ran/glued plumbing and a few new titles for coral grow out. Added the tiles and redid the plumbing on the same day. Tiles were rinsed well but I only gave the plumbing a few hours to cure before I brought it back online.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

@saltyfilmfolks
Funny I almost tagged you in my original post

No carbon dosing. No biopellets. No nopox. No candles. Did have a glade air freshener in there but took it out a fewweeks ago. The only other thing is some newly ran/glued plumbing and a few new titles for coral grow out. Added the tiles and redid the plumbing on the same day. Tiles were rinsed well but I only gave the plumbing a few hours to cure before I brought it back online.

PVC glue? I don’t know that I’ve heard of that causing this. Possible I suppose.

What glue was it?

 

[Coastie Reefer]

Oatey Fusion. Primer and glue in one.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Oatey Fusion. Primer and glue in one.

Weird. Be done that and used it too soon too and didn’t have that happen.

It’s clear or whiteish or brownish slime?

 

[Coastie Reefer]

Weird. Be done that and used it too soon too and didn’t have that happen.

It’s clear or whiteish or brownish slime?

The pic doesn’t do it justice. It’s white and foamy and floats thick on the surface. Congealed and slime like substance, mucus like.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Geez. Never seen it like that.
Was it close or purple , mine was always purple.

#reefsquad , pvc otay glue makes slime ?

 

[Crabs McJones]

Never seen glue do that. Used plumbing very shortly after gluing. Possibly a coral releasing slime. Following along for the answer

 

[Coastie Reefer]

So the tank is a 50g lowboy and the sump is an old school eshopps 36x16x16. It’s plumbed in with a standard 75g but it’s not currently connected as I have the ball valve closed essentially making the 75 a stand alone tank. The only other thing that I did was move some new “dry” rock from the lowboy and placed it in the 75. 75 is looking fine, no issues at all. The rock had only been wet for about 2-3 weeks. No coral in the system.

Pic of the tank the day before I noticed anything. Honestly I’m perplexed.

 

[Coastie Reefer]

Geez. Never seen it like that.
Was it close or purple , mine was always purple.

#reefsquad , pvc otay glue makes slime ?

Clear. Used the same stuff before without any issues so I’m thinking it’s not the glue...

 

[Hemmdog]

The pic doesn’t do it justice. It’s white and foamy and floats thick on the surface. Congealed and slime like substance, mucus like.

I saw this same thing on some Netflix show, like Earths most Bizzare or something like that. It is a marine bacteria I think they said. Shoot, I wish I was paying attention better.

 

[Coastie Reefer]

I saw this same thing on some Netflix show, like Earths most Bizzare or something like that. It is a marine bacteria I think they said. Shoot, I wish I was paying attention better.

Stuff is so nasty and thick it clogged a felt sock in just a matter of minutes. I removed the sock and the thing held water just like a plastic bag would. Even after I dumped the water down the sink the sock seemed to weigh around 5 lbs or so!

 

[Hemmdog]

Stuff is so nasty and thick it clogged a felt sock in just a matter of minutes. I removed the sock and the thing held water just like a plastic bag would. Even after I dumped the water down the sink the sock seemed to weigh around 5 lbs or so!

Omg ! Lol

 

[Coastie Reefer]

Omg ! Lol

Stuff like this make me want to get a microscope!

 

[glb]

Wow. I was thinking nopox because it slimes my tank but that’s not it. Is it getting worse?

 

[Coastie Reefer]

Put some enkamat in the overflow and was able to catch some and get a better picture. Sump doesn’t have nearly as much scuz on the surface this morning but the water in the frag tank is still cloudy. I’m guessing a really bad bacteria bloom and that I’ll just have to give time...

Would bottled bacteria like Dr Tims help? Would it possibly out compete this stuff?

 

[SeaDweller]

what the heck?

 

[Coastie Reefer]

what the heck?

LOL, I know right. I've never seen anything like it in my years of reefing. Slime is gone now, all on its own... water is still a little bit cloudy, but I'm going to put some filter floss in the sump to if that will clear it up.

 

[SeaDweller]

LOL, I know right. I've never seen anything like it in my years of reefing. Slime is gone now, all on its own... water is still a little bit cloudy, but I'm going to put some filter floss in the sump to if that will clear it up.

Probably a bacterial bloom then. Weird.