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Hmm. Maybe they are mesenterial filaments: https://www.nano-reef.com/forums/topic/296533-white-curly-stuff-on-acan/ one guy seems to think its a it’s a sign of warfare, but idk. Mine has had them for a while in several different placements (some very far from other corals), and they expand more during feeding.

Nope. Definitely not a sponge. It really looks like mesenterial filaments, but they aren’t coming from a mouth of this coral. Can these filaments come from in-between? Some kind of sex organ?

Nope. It’s definitely soft. I poked at it with a tweezers. Felt soft like guts.

Am I the only one that has a ridiculously hard time getting a pic from my phone to a post? Argh!!!!

This has started developing over the past few months. Not exactly sure if it’s normal, good, or a nasty. Coral is a favia, and I’m talking about the white fleshy thing inbetween the polyps. It is more pronounced when I feed, goes back to almost nothing during the day. During feeding, it almost looks like the “guts” of a mushroom coral. Is this his part of the favia? Is it a hitchhiker that has finally grown up a bit?

I have that Jeabo (I think) on a 30 gallon cube - it's not too little flow. My pump is supposed to up to 600 gph, and I think I have it tuned down about 50%. The "lowest" setting is literally zero flow, so I'm not sure if we're talking different things, but mine is fully adjustable 0-100%. It's not the best "name" DC pump, but it's been a solid performer for me.

I think I’m looking at getting a peristaltic pump for my kalk bin system (reservoir, pump, timer). My aqualifter isn’t very consistent. I saw on amazon some cheap pumps that are pretty bare bones. I have power supplies I can wire up to it, but any idea if any of them are worth the $15 even? I have to pump the water up about 4 feet. If not, what’s a halfway decent single head unit I could get? I don’t need bells or whistles (I have a timer I’ll be using) - I just want it to pump relatively consistent and not backflow when it’s not pumping. Is anyone trying to get rid of one for cheap? Other ideas?

Paul, I've read a few things you've written over the years about growing your own white worms, and feeding blackworms, but as with most things in (most) people's tanks, things evolve and change over time. Can you give an update on what/how you do your white worms?

I’m hoping since most of us have Ro/di systems, someone also knows about RO drinking water systems. My office just moved to a new building, and they tasked me with figuring out and installing an under-the-sink RO unit. Easy, right? That’s what I though. Building facilities found out of our plan and tossed a wrench in it. Apparently, this new building we are in has written into our lease that we cannot use any push-connect plumbing fittings, and no non-reinforced plastic tube. So, no John Guest style fittings, and I can’t have any rigid airline used. Seriously. Sooooo, any ideas now? I was looking at an airwaterice.com drinking RO unit, but it uses push-connect fittings. I need to be able to use the stainless braided hose (like the stuff for the sprayer on my kitchen sink). Any ideas?

I've also used Chemiclean with decent results. Mine came back, however, as the root cause of the issue was not fixed (I think I need new DI resin). Fix the root cause along with chemiclean is the best way for optimal results.

Hopefully crisis is averted - it sounds like it is looking that way. I guess with the recent waves of thunderstorms, this should serve as a PSA to be prepped in case of power failure. At the very least, a battery operated airstone will go a long way to keeping inhabitants alive for a couple hours.

Well, I guess put me on your short list that use Randy’s batch method. I know it takes more room, but it’s safer than having it hooked up to an ATO. I assumed that the OP was batch mixing it. In either case, you’ve given a great recap of that article and the different methods involved!

So it’s not a very good source, but in any case: https://brainly.in/question/644678 apparently it’s cyano. They secrete a fluffy gelatinous later to protect their colony. Guess that means I’ve got a pretty well established colony of cyano in my sump ?

Yup, cheato was already in there. It’s not a thin film by any means - I can pop the bubbles like bubble wrap. It’s goofy as can be. Only on the sump, not in the tank.

Tom- you mentioned to stir it once a day to keep saturation levels up, could you elaborate why you feel that is important? I read an article some years ago by Randy Holmes-Farley about kalk solution, and his take was if you are using a reservoir, to leave it completely undisturbed until you need to replenish it. The idea is that once it is stirred and settled, the water is fully saturated. You can pull water from anywhere in the container and it has the same concentration - fully saturated. It only becomes less that saturated if you break the crust in the surface, allowing the kalk to react with oxygen. Now you’ll have a less that saturated solution unless it’s stirred again. So, stir once, let crust develop, don’t touch until refilling is needed. I agree, however, with not dosing the whitish water before it had settled out. At least, that’s my recollection of the article, and since I’m posting from a phone right now, I’m lazy and don’t want to try to search for it (this is long enough and my thumbs are now tired) ?

I was gone for two weeks on vacation. Tank was fed while I was gone, and that’s it. I care home to find a really weird gelatinous goop in my sump. I’ve never seen anything like it. Seems to form at the water surface. It has air bubbles, and is mostly clear, but whatever cyano color is near it is then on the surface of the goop (brown or red for me). Has anyone seen anything like this? Google is coming up short, as I don’t even really know what to search for.

It's tough to tell from the pictures, but maybe ball anemone? I think they're also referred to as ball-tipped anemone. They stay about the size of a dime/penny, live in no-light areas, and are fun little filter feeders. I used to have a bunch of them in my last tank.

I'm looking online, watching videos, looking at other pictures, and I'm thinking that perhaps that observations that I'm calling "symptoms" might actually be the "side effects". the closing/rotting/melting polyps might be due to zoapox?? The images below are from a video I found talking about zoapox - I circled in red what my polyps also look like during the beginning.

I don't know. I don't typically test my water (hold the mob and pitchforks back ). I'm not entirely sure what, if anything, my course of treatment would be different if I tested or not. I do about a 20%-25% water change every weekend. I know I have a little cyano, but nothing terrible, so some nutrients are obviously elevated. However, everything else in the tank for fish/corals are doing great, just a recent outbreak with my corals. I'm leaving tomorrow for two weeks, so I have one shot to try to do a dip to "fix" this. I'm trying to figure out if it might be fungal (so I should do something like a Furan 2 dip), or if I should do my more "standard" zoa dip (first an HP solution, with a rinse off in lugols). I realize some of the polyps in the images just looked closed, but something's not right with them. Right in the middle of the Rasta colony, the white dot was an open polyp two days ago. Last night it was almost looking rotten. If you look at the center of that colony, there are three open polyps looking like "Orion's belt"...just above the right-most one, that polyp looks aweful, and is "typical" of what I've seen happen. Skirt disappears into a whitish film, center almost looks rotten, then it turns fully into a little white dot, then completely gone.

My zoanthids just took a bid turn for the worst. A couple days ago I noticed a few polyps closed constantly. Then tonight I came home from work to find a bunch closed, some completely melted away, others just a little white nub where it was open two days ago. One or two had a brown fuzz on them - but it could have been cyano. Whats going on? Oh, and I leave out of the country for two weeks on Saturday ?. Is this a fungus issue? I’ve never had a zoa crash this fast before. I’m thinking a dip is in order (at least the ones I can peel out of the tank/rock). I pretty much have one shot to dip tomorrow evening - what should I do? Furan 2, HP/iodine?