Shut my lights and powerhead and this appeared..

Lucky Lefty · 08/08/2014, 07:35 PM

When I shut off my lights at night I also shut off the powerhead for my porcupine puffer because he cannot swim in the current AT ALL, even in the lowest possible setting.
I've only been running the powerhead for 2 days, but tonight as I was waiting for puff to come out so I could feed him, I saw these dark globs floating all over the bottom of the tank, mostly on the left side.
I turned on the lights to find what looked like hundreds of tiny brown jellyfish.

It almost seemed to be oozing out of the sand or possibly off of the rock in one of the following photos.

I don't think it's snail spawn, although that would be cool/sucky because I turned the powerhead on to see how the puffer reacted to the flow again and it all went right through the powerhead.

Could this be diatom sludge or something?

Lucky Lefty · 08/08/2014, 07:36 PM

Another shot

Lucky Lefty · 08/08/2014, 07:37 PM

And one more shot

Lucky Lefty · 08/09/2014, 08:32 AM

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Flippers4pups · 08/09/2014, 08:45 AM

Its not snail spawn. Sound like flat worms, but can tell from photos.

Lucky Lefty · 08/09/2014, 02:03 PM

Thanks for the input. I'm not sure what it was. It looked like little globs of translucent brown jelly. One part of the sand almost seemed to be oozing with it, once I turned on the powerhead, it all got sucked into it and didn't come back.

Very strange.

Lucky Lefty · 08/09/2014, 02:21 PM

Possibly brown slime algae? All of the photos of flatworms that I've found don't look like what I saw last night. Maybe shutting off the powerhead caused it to dislodge somehow? I haven't noticed any slime though, I wonder if it was below the sand and then somehow was pulling through the sand and into the water column

08/09/2014, 08:32 AM	#4
Lucky Lefty Registered Member Join Date: May 2014 Location: NJ Posts: 790	.... __________________ 150g NJ Current Tank Info: est.5/9/14

08/09/2014, 08:45 AM	#5
Flippers4pups Home made abyss Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Lake Saint Louis, MO Posts: 2,047	Its not snail spawn. Sound like flat worms, but can tell from photos. __________________ Don Reefing since 1993 Current Tank info: 125 gallon DT , 125 gallon basement sump. Rw 15 & Rw 8. Panworld 150ps return. Reef Octopus 150 skimmer, 3 165w mars aqua led.

08/09/2014, 02:03 PM	#6
Lucky Lefty Registered Member Join Date: May 2014 Location: NJ Posts: 790	Thanks for the input. I'm not sure what it was. It looked like little globs of translucent brown jelly. One part of the sand almost seemed to be oozing with it, once I turned on the powerhead, it all got sucked into it and didn't come back. Very strange. __________________ 150g NJ Current Tank Info: est.5/9/14

08/09/2014, 02:21 PM	#7
Lucky Lefty Registered Member Join Date: May 2014 Location: NJ Posts: 790	Possibly brown slime algae? All of the photos of flatworms that I've found don't look like what I saw last night. Maybe shutting off the powerhead caused it to dislodge somehow? I haven't noticed any slime though, I wonder if it was below the sand and then somehow was pulling through the sand and into the water column __________________ 150g NJ Current Tank Info: est.5/9/14