Brown stringy stuff

I'm hoping it's just air bubbles mixed with some diatoms or cyano; but it looks like it could be dinoflagellates.
 
cyano can have air bubbles attach to them too. cyano or dino, treatment is the same, get your phosphates down to zero to get rid of them. do you run GFO? You can also siphon out as much as you can during water change.
 
Probley Dino. Two fixes. First, your RODI is probley shot. Its letting silicates into your tank Dino uses silicates for their shell. Thas why a water change makes it worse. So Replace all filters and membrane. After that's done make water. Mix said water with salt. The next day treat tank with Chema-clean. Read the instructions. Do what it says. Dino....... All gone.
 
BooyahsReef said:
Probley Dino. Two fixes. First, your RODI is probley shot. Its letting silicates into your tank Dino uses silicates for their shell. Thas why a water change makes it worse. So Replace all filters and membrane. After that's done make water. Mix said water with salt. The next day treat tank with Chema-clean. Read the instructions. Do what it says. Dino....... All gone.
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I buy all my water, guess I will talk to the store. Either Beyond the Reef or Sea Schor =/
 
yes, snails are fine

Just got back from Sho Tank. Double checked my test kit readings, everything 0.0 that should be. PH little low using supper buffer. Calcium 480, Alc ok, Phos 0.0

I am going to get all my water from Mark for a while. Still just few little pockets of snot that seem to come and go. Think I have been buying bad water =/

Shout out to Mark at Sho Tank for the help. We will check everything in a few days again.
 
William Lutman said:
yes, snails are fine

Just got back from Sho Tank. Double checked my test kit readings, everything 0.0 that should be. PH little low using supper buffer. Calcium 480, Alc ok, Phos 0.0

I am going to get all my water from Mark for a while. Still just few little pockets of snot that seem to come and go. Think I have been buying bad water =/

Shout out to Mark at Sho Tank for the help. We will check everything in a few days again.
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Matt? Or is there a Mark too?

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not the same brand, but it sounds like similar stuff. The one I posted is a yellow crystaline powder (looks like yellow sugar). I have what I thought was cyano and one does the stuff knocked it out. (one dose a few weeks later when I saw a tiny bit, but nothing since about 3 months ago)
 
it's interesting that the instructions are so opposite between the products. Have you tried the one you linked? I have plenty of the one I linked if you want to try some.
 
Somehow this is all related ...

Just calibrated my ORP probe because readings were odd. It stablized at 400+ with solution and I let it sit for like 30 min....

ORP is negative 312

I don't get it, ammonia, nitrate and nitrite are 0.0

Not silicates or Phosphates

Skimmer is pulling stuff

Why is ORP negative?
 
Don't trust your test kits because if you have stuff eating them up, like microalgae, cyano or diatoms, or dino, then your results will be low for phosphates/silicates.
 
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