Help! The blob is taking over! ID please! Advice?

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Lonestar1

:?: I have this thick, slimy blobs of goop on my snad bed. All of my water parameters are in check nitrate 0 amonia 0 ph 8.2 temp 78.6 with the help of a chiller. Nice skimmer, turbo twist uv running. Do regular water changes. :sad: :sad: :sad: I scoop the goop out along with some of my sand. The junk is growing back within about 6 hours! Help! Oh yea,my tank is 215 g about 5 months running.

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Lonestar1 wrote:
:?: I have this thick, slimy blobs of goop on my snad bed. All of my water parameters are in check nitrate 0 amonia 0 ph 8.2 temp 78.6 with the help of a chiller. Nice skimmer, turbo twist uv running. Do regular water changes. :sad: :sad: :sad: I scoop the goop out along with some of my sand. The junk is growing back within about 6 hours! Help! Oh yea,my tank is 215 g about 5 months running.


Hi,
Looks like it may be cynaobacteria(cyano). Increasing flow and reduced feeding along with more efficient skimming can help this. Make sure that you have good flow across your sandbed so that food etc., does not gather in one place. This is also one of the phases that you can see new tanks go through as they mature, make sure your flow is as described above and it will help.


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Koralla x2. plus the outlets from the overflow box times two. How far down should the powerheads be with out causing a sand storm?
 
@Lonestar1 wrote:
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@Lonestar1 wrote:
Koralla x2. plus the outlets from the overflow box times two. How far down should the powerheads be with out causing a sand storm? said:
I personally think that your flow is very inadequate for such a large tank, I would think you would need at least 2-4 Koralia #4's in there. You may have to play around with different powerhead placement 's in order to get them in the "sweet spot" so to speak. I'm sure there are other opinion's on this as well. :)

Cheers,
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You can also try a 3 days lights out period. I had a slight sprinkling in a 2x3" area of my tank. Did 3 days lights out and it's been gone since. None of the corals suffered at all.
 
@kaledrina wrote:
You can also try a 3 days lights out period. I had a slight sprinkling in a 2x3" area of my tank. Did 3 days lights out and it's been gone since. None of the corals suffered at all. said:
Problem with lights out method is that you are not correcting the root cause. Find and correct the root cause and you will enjoy long term success. IMO

Cheers,
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bimmerz, give her some ideas of where and what to look for. We all know that light isn't the root cause. If her water params are ok, suggest what to look at next.
 
Have you checked your phosphate levels? That can be a key contributor to cyanobacteria outbreaks.
 
We just used the Red Slime control and it is gone for now. We do use RO/DI water. My PO4(phos) was a bit up so we are now using phos lock and it seems to be improving. I went and also bought two more K4's to add to the circulation. Thanks for all of the advice everyone. I'm still open to suggestions as I have only been doing this since the summer. Boy, have I learned alot on here! Not to mention, I still have alot to learn. :)
 
And add a touch of patience. I just went through a bout with cyano and never had it before. All params including phosphate were 0. I'd blow it off the rocks, sitr up the sand and within 2 hours it was right back where it left off. I have Red Slime Remover but was afraid to use it in the whole tank so I mixed some up for my worst case coral, a small pipe organ which was being smothered in it and after 2 treatments it totally disappeared from the coral with no harm to it or the baby sun corals that settled in it. After about a month or so of this battle, one day I stirred up the sand, wiped down the glass, blew it off the rock and it simply didn't come back. Just as quickly as it came, it left.
 
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