its getting bigger and I'm not exited

[Brad Moehl]

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Ok I might not be doing right, but I'm incorperateing all info together. Seventy five gallon tank, foutry pounds sterile sand, fourty pounds live sand, three suicide Damsels (doing well). PH is a little high all else good. Went to Florida and stopped at a fish store, real nice owner was pretty knowledgeable. He sold me some dry live rock to act as a base, so I wouldn't pile live rock on live rock he said it was less expensive. He also told me that it might grow some stuff. Well it is growing some stuff that looks real good, however it is also growing this stuff that looks like translucent (see through) cotton candy. Feels like slime or jelly. It is only on one rock and hasn't moved to another rock. What is it? Can I get someone to eat it? should I? Should I be concerned about it? Did I polute the aquerium?

I have Fiji live rock coming tommarrow, already ordered it before growth of unknown entity.

Any comment would be apprieciated.

Peace
Brad

 

[Anonymous]

Ah, the Irish man is in a pickle! :lol:
Just kidding; I love everything Irish. Its my dream country; Im not kidding. Even my screen name here is in Gaelic.
Did you say they were TOTALLY transparent? Or do they have some milky-white tangability to them? If so, then it looks like you stuck with a bunch of decaying sponges. Either that, or its some sort of crazy jellyfish; theyre often transparent. Actually, there more possibilities out there, but its most likely decaying sponges.
What eats em? Not much. I thought hermit crabs, cleaner shrimp, sea stars, and snails would do it; I just ended up taking out the one chunk of live rock that was covered with them and set it in a bowl before all the above inverts were actually fully acclimated (within 48 hours of their introduction to the tank). So actually, I dont really know for sure what eats them. Get yourself some fancy serpent sea stars and brittle stars, and a few hermit crabs, and some snails, like the super tongan nassarius snail and margaritas. That should eventually nullify them. The other thing you can do is take the rocks that have the stuff on it and put them in a plastic bucket or garbage can, and scrub them like they insulted your mother. Dont worry about whatever else is on there if you accidently get them too; the rocks your getting in will probably spread fairly quickly to the base stuff.
Hope that helps, and post pics!!!

 

[Jpizzle]

The other thing you can do is take the rocks that have the stuff on it and put them in a plastic bucket or garbage can, and scrub them like they insulted your mother.

*hahaha* thats classic.

Yea I would recommend taking them out and giving em a good scrub and a hose down. I'm not sure if this applies, but I had some 'bowl rock' for a FW tank I had setup a while ago, and before I put the rock in I noticed there was some lichen on it. Those areas eventually turned into some cottony, slimy, white thing like you said. I'm quite sure that this is the same thing you got going on. Some vegetation, lichen, or moss or something must've been existent in the base rock, and submerging it under water results in what you describe. Take it out and scrub it, if it comes back, pray your cleanup crew will do something about it. Either way it shouldn't be detrimental to the tank besides looking kinda nasty.

 

[Anonymous]

Can I get someone to eat it?

Give it to Mikey, he'll eat anything. :lol:

 

[Len]

It's hard to say what it is. Could possibly be bacterial strings or dinoflaggellates. In any event, I'd siphon it out if possible. I don't think it's anything catastrophic, but since we don't know what it is, it's safer to just remove it.

 

[Baianotang]

good skimming will do the job, i think?