Hey guys. So I currently have a white slim bacterial bloom that I got from dosing nopox. Wondering what you guys recommend to treat it. Currently trying to wet skim and stopped all nopox dosing. Any help will be appreciated
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Hey guys. So I currently have a white slim bacterial bloom that I got from dosing nopox. Wondering what you guys recommend to treat it. Currently trying to wet skim and stopped all nopox dosing. Any help will be appreciated
I have been fighting the white slime for months now. I changed salt to Tropic Marin, adding Vibrant and Waste & Away, feeding pellets only, manually cleaning rock, glass & sump. Wet skimming, fairly high water flow.Yup i increased water flow a bit, stopped Nopox , and wet skimming. Only minimal slime in display but have a bit in the sump. I have been siphoning what i can from the sump with a turkey baster and will siphon as much as i can when i do a water change later today
Because you're doing everything it wants.I have been fighting the white slime for months now. I changed salt to Tropic Marin, adding Vibrant and Waste & Away, feeding pellets only, manually cleaning rock, glass & sump. Wet skimming, fairly high water flow.
I am running UV and 3 to 4 hours of Ozone a day. My socks last 12 hours before clogging up with the slime, so I am changing them twice a day. I am using a 6 stage RO/DI system.
Right now the system is FOWLR.
There is NO algae growing anywhere, I am at a loss to understand what the stuff is feeding on?
Any suggestions are welcome.
Hum.... Interesting idea.Because you're doing everything it wants.
Vibrant will reduce nutrients as will waste away. Add to that wet skimming and low feed.
The reason you have no algae is because of the above and the white slime is bacterial based.
STOP dosing vibrant and waste away. I'd even unplug skimmer for a couple of weeks.
Feed more and dose some seachem flourish Phosphorous. Bring those levels up. After a few months you might get some green and the bacterial bloom subside.
Not so much of an idea as to the actual problem. The products your dosing contain bacteria to break down N+P, when you reach very low levels and continuing to dose your adding more bio material to an already low nutrient system. This causes excess bacteria to accumulate.Hum.... Interesting idea.
Not so much of an idea as to the actual problem. The products your dosing contain bacteria to break down N+P, when you reach very low levels and continuing to dose your adding more bio material to an already low nutrient system. This causes excess bacteria to accumulate.
Hence..... White slime.
The issue you will now have is raising nutrients as you have a heavy bio load of bacteria consuming those Nitrogen compounds. It will take time and some heavy handed dosing / feeding approaches to bring it up.
This isn't anything new either, products used to lower N+P have become increasingly popular and readily available yet are bringing there own set of issues because of the lack of understanding of them. is well worth a try
We're all Guinea pigs....
Once you raise those levels it will all subside.
Leave the UV in place no need to remove it.Thank you for the suggestion and insite, I have been carefully considering what you have said and it is well worth a try.
I have just ordered a bottle of Seachem Flourish Phosphorous and while I am waiting for that to arrive (Saturday) I will perform a 5 gallon water change tomorrow, remove the UV and turn off the skimmer just before adding the Seachem and scrub as much of the slime off of the rock and glass as possible.
I will post results as I progress.
Oh and it will work, been there and got the t shirt.Leave the UV in place no need to remove it.
Water change may help actually by thinning the amount in water column (and food sources that come with dosing bottles).
interesting take like a lightbulb went off in my head - i am almost ready to tear tank down because of this stuff. OP and myself have same issue i believe.
i got the slime from moving 4 year old healthy mixed reef into a slightly larger tank with new rinsed sand bed. i added fritzzyme to new tank with sandbed. had an emergency so left new tank running for 3 days before i moved all old tank rock/corals over. i noticed the water looked hazy in new tank but did it anyway. prob where it started too much bottle bacteria in a sterile tank.
2 weeks later white flowing slime shows up clogs filter floss every 6 hours or so. slime grows in sump area and all high flow plumbing within a week. clean glass it sheds off in slimy sheets. corals are lackluster, colors are going, fuzz on rocks in display is minimal but it is everywhere. i am 3 months into slime and clean heavily every week to remove it. params are near perfect. checked water, storage containers, etc.
again lps sps softies are growing slower than old tank but they just dont look 100%.
i bought an oversized skimmer going wet, doing the dr. tims refresh now i am adding waste-away 10ml to 5 gallons everyother day with skimmer off for 12 hours. all i dose is brs 2-part and weekly 10% wc.
my point is i have not been feeding the tank much, chaeto growth has all but stopped it is healthy but no growth. i have been running chemipure elite since first week like always and from this thread been doing everything opposite to rid myself if it.
the corals and chaeto telling me we need food!!! this tank is too clean right? i did loose a handful of crabs/snails early prob no algae to eat. cleaner shrimp molted once and looked good but lost that month ago. couple clown fish are fine but i sparingly feed them. tiny amount of reefroids and reef frenzy once or twice a week.
im really not sure if it is going away or not. plan on feeding tank more and doing a massive sump, plumbing, powerheads, skimmer everything out of tank scrubdown and do one more dose of wasteaway tomorrow if it comes back i might just turn off skimmer, stop waterchanges, feed like crazy. if that does not work im tearing it all down.
good luck to us both
interesting take like a lightbulb went off in my head - i am almost ready to tear tank down because of this stuff. OP and myself have same issue i believe.
i got the slime from moving 4 year old healthy mixed reef into a slightly larger tank with new rinsed sand bed. i added fritzzyme to new tank with sandbed. had an emergency so left new tank running for 3 days before i moved all old tank rock/corals over. i noticed the water looked hazy in new tank but did it anyway. prob where it started too much bottle bacteria in a sterile tank.
2 weeks later white flowing slime shows up clogs filter floss every 6 hours or so. slime grows in sump area and all high flow plumbing within a week. clean glass it sheds off in slimy sheets. corals are lackluster, colors are going, fuzz on rocks in display is minimal but it is everywhere. i am 3 months into slime and clean heavily every week to remove it. params are near perfect. checked water, storage containers, etc.
again lps sps softies are growing slower than old tank but they just dont look 100%.
i bought an oversized skimmer going wet, doing the dr. tims refresh now i am adding waste-away 10ml to 5 gallons everyother day with skimmer off for 12 hours. all i dose is brs 2-part and weekly 10% wc.
my point is i have not been feeding the tank much, chaeto growth has all but stopped it is healthy but no growth. i have been running chemipure elite since first week like always and from this thread been doing everything opposite to rid myself if it.
the corals and chaeto telling me we need food!!! this tank is too clean right? i did loose a handful of crabs/snails early prob no algae to eat. cleaner shrimp molted once and looked good but lost that month ago. couple clown fish are fine but i sparingly feed them. tiny amount of reefroids and reef frenzy once or twice a week.
im really not sure if it is going away or not. plan on feeding tank more and doing a massive sump, plumbing, powerheads, skimmer everything out of tank scrubdown and do one more dose of wasteaway tomorrow if it comes back i might just turn off skimmer, stop waterchanges, feed like crazy. if that does not work im tearing it all down.
good luck to us both