What is on the wall inside my tank ! ?

[CanadianKeeper]

Ok so This stuff pops up maybe once a month... I know for a fact I am doing proper amount of water changes and I have an fx5 hooked up so filtration is not the issue...

When I scrub the inside it comes right off, Im trying to keep my hands out of this tank as much as possible tho for clear reasons...

It waves with the water and is white... Maybe some type of algea ? Would a type of pleco help my situation ? Or a very strong magnet brush ?

180 gallon, fx5, 75 degrees, 2ft gator gar 2 ft clown 6 inch motoro ray.

Pics

 

[fwprawn]

I get this when I feed my fish meat or oily fish - what do you feed the fish?

 

[CanadianKeeper]

I feed minnows or gold fish and blood worms to the ray.

 

[tomcat.415]

I used to get that. when did you set up that tank because it just went away after awhile.

 

[CanadianKeeper]

its been set up for months...

 

[mr.bigglesworth]

Looks like green spot algae, or green dust algae. I have that on my 20g.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using MonsterAquariaNetwork App

 

[arowanaryan]

try black worms/crawlers instead of blood worms... solved the problem for me. Not sure why.

 

[CanadianKeeper]

try black worms/crawlers instead of blood worms... solved the problem for me. Not sure why.

hmm ok... Good thing about frozen blood worms ! All the packs I have can stay frozen lol...

 

[COG Commando]

If it looks like tiny feather dusters waving in the current of the tank then it's likely a species of Dinobryon, a unicellular, flagellated, colonial golden algae.
Under the microscope

 

[F1 VET]

Sounds like a bb bloom imo. And a fx5 on a 180 isn't special, maybe 2fx5 on it would be something to gloat about...try buying bio media so your bacteria doesn't choose the walls to colonize on.... Scrap it do a wc add bio, and in a couple weeks it'll be gone....

Just so u don't think I'm a **** I run fx5+ac110 on a 90gal lol. Speaking from xp, try adding a ac110 or 2, stock it with 3-4 layers of filter sheet and it will take care of small mechanical filtration (polishing), then u can run fx5 for bio and the sponges will take care of LG debris, all 3baskets on mine are loaded with api chem stars and bio max.



Go S. Vettel #1 rb8