doghousedb Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 I got home from work today and one of my tanks has thick white algea/slime on everything. It's about a half inch thick and waves in the current with 2 inch filaments. Yesterday the tank was fine. What happened? What is this? I don't see WHITE algea in any of my books. Never seen anything like this grow so fast either. The conditions are wrong anyway. Last night I did 50% water changes on all the tanks and the others are still fine today (I do 50% water changes 3 times a week). The only thing different about this tank was that when I turned the filter back on, after the water change, the impeller was jammed. I had a new one on hand and put it in, but not without a thorough cleaning of the whole filter unit (it's an Aquaclear). The unit was rather slimey considering I had just cleaned it on the weekend. I doubt the new impeller brought this! The tank is a 25 Gal sterile tank with 6 young discus and an algea eater. They're all fine but the eater is breathing a little fast. I don't get it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safety4fire Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 The only time I have ever seen that was once when I was doing dishes for my wife :bow: and left the dishes soaking overnight, the next day there was slime as you discribed in the dish water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanker Posted January 21, 2006 Report Share Posted January 21, 2006 I have seen that before... every single time one of two things happens: 1) a fish dies... it's then covered by that slime-coating looking fuzz crap if I don't find it right away. Or in the case of my cray that molted last night, it was no more than a few hours before it started sliming up... 2) add new wood to the tank... new (even well-soaked) wood added to a tank reacts with something in the water and gets the same thing... <MY opinion> It's 'natural', there are ways around it, but the easiest thing I do is make sure there is a healthy compliment of snails in the tank. They feast on it and usually have a huge amount gone within a few days. Water changes and adding other chemicals usually do not help, as you're not treating the problem, your just supressing it from happening. I think it's just the bacteria in the tank eating the 'dead' stuff... be it flora or fauna... and the slime is a byproduct of that reaction. </MY opinion> Where you say "on everything"... what exactly IS everything? Glass? Substrate? Real plants? ?? If it's on those things, then I am out to lunch, back at 1pm. If it's primarily on a nice bit of bogwood or what have you, then I might be on to something. Do tell?? "What's in the box? Come on... what's in the box?" Brad Pitt, SE7EN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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