Is this brown jelly?

Reeferburns · Dec 9, 2020

Hi, I have this brown stuff and super stringy stuff all over my tank. Should I do chemi clean? It’s crazy it’s like it’s going over all my corals and killing them. I just moved my tank to a new house and lost a lot of corals and then this happened and I lost more sps. It is very sad. Any idea what it is? Any help to get rid of it would be much appreciated!

Auto-pilot · Dec 9, 2020

No it looks like diatoms or dinos on the the Rocks. Brown jelly grows on corls and eats them

Simon Reefing · Dec 9, 2020

I'll second diatoms or dinos. How long has the tank been up and running?

Reeferburns · Dec 10, 2020

Marcelo Simon said:
I'll second diatoms or dinos. How long has the tank been up and running?

For a year now. Everything in it has came from a tank that was running for 6 years and I ended up getting a new one a year ago so technically the new one has only been up for a year.

Auto-pilot · Dec 10, 2020

Sometimes this is remedied by bumping up the nutrients aka nitrate phosphate. Essentially sometimes the nutrients get low and the "competition" is not doing great. It's all micro biology. Suck the dinos off the rocks and bump the nutrients to rebalance your system. That brown goo will most likely bother and smother corals so it's best to get rid of it

Reeferburns · Dec 10, 2020

Auto-pilot said:
Sometimes this is remedied by bumping up the nutrients aka nitrate phosphate. Essentially sometimes the nutrients get low and the "competition" is not doing great. It's all micro biology. Suck the dinos off the rocks and bump the nutrients to rebalance your system. That brown goo will most likely bother and smother corals so it's best to get rid of it

Thank you!