Could my cheato be dying?

Prince916 · 07/13/2010, 06:06 AM

Last week i have cleaned out my sump and about four days ago i have noticed my skimmer is working 10x than it did before. My cheato started developing this white stringy slime. I have always been running carbon and GFO.

FYI, my tank is a 90g with low nutrients(prodibio)also with 15 fish feeding 3-5times a day.

Prince916 · 07/13/2010, 08:44 AM

Bump..

Allmost · 07/13/2010, 09:01 AM

something has shifted, and you most likely have overdosed on carbon sources for the slime to be there

I would lower carbon dosing and do more water changes to get the bacteria back in equilibrium

Zeovit coral snow did wonders for me just last week, same situation

DustinB · 07/13/2010, 09:01 AM

The white stringy parts are dead chaeto. You need to prune that out of there. It could be dying for many reasons. If you don't have enough flow, not pruning it properly by breaking it up and flipping it over, or you may just not have enough nutrients for the amount you have in there.

Prince916 · 07/13/2010, 09:23 AM

But why my skimmer all the sudden starts skimming like crazy and cheato started dying?

Prince916 · 07/13/2010, 09:47 AM

Ok i broke out the camera and took some crappy pic.

I had cheato's dying on me before but nothing like this.

Allmost · 07/13/2010, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prince916

But why my skimmer all the sudden starts skimming like crazy and cheato started dying?

pulling out the junk ure dead cheato gave off !

the pic looks like dead cheato, ignore my post

hey u may have so low of nutritions that cheato cant survive ! although I doubt it

jedheuer · 07/13/2010, 10:26 AM

looks like it could be dino flagelites. I had a case of that and it did grow on the chaeto and choke it out a bit causing more die off. Either way manual removal is necessary. it would be odd though if it didn't show up in the display tank and only on the chaeto, though.

07/13/2010, 06:06 AM	#1
Prince916 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 549	Could my cheato be dying? Last week i have cleaned out my sump and about four days ago i have noticed my skimmer is working 10x than it did before. My cheato started developing this white stringy slime. I have always been running carbon and GFO. FYI, my tank is a 90g with low nutrients(prodibio)also with 15 fish feeding 3-5times a day.

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07/13/2010, 08:44 AM	#2
Prince916 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 549	Bump..

07/13/2010, 09:01 AM	#3
Allmost Moved On Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: canada, toronto Posts: 8,161	something has shifted, and you most likely have overdosed on carbon sources for the slime to be there I would lower carbon dosing and do more water changes to get the bacteria back in equilibrium Zeovit coral snow did wonders for me just last week, same situation

07/13/2010, 09:01 AM	#4
DustinB Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Texas Posts: 1,532	The white stringy parts are dead chaeto. You need to prune that out of there. It could be dying for many reasons. If you don't have enough flow, not pruning it properly by breaking it up and flipping it over, or you may just not have enough nutrients for the amount you have in there.

07/13/2010, 09:23 AM	#5
Prince916 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 549	But why my skimmer all the sudden starts skimming like crazy and cheato started dying?

07/13/2010, 09:47 AM	#6
Prince916 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 549	Ok i broke out the camera and took some crappy pic. I had cheato's dying on me before but nothing like this.

07/13/2010, 10:26 AM	#8
jedheuer Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Sonoma, Ca Posts: 558	looks like it could be dino flagelites. I had a case of that and it did grow on the chaeto and choke it out a bit causing more die off. Either way manual removal is necessary. it would be odd though if it didn't show up in the display tank and only on the chaeto, though.