Intermittent slime floating around DT

[gregzz4]

Last month I posted this issue as I suspected my ATO water was the cause, but now I don't think this is the case
I get slime in my DT, but not my QT, and both have Osmolators supplied from one ATO holding tank

In my DT, every now and then, I see bits of slimy, whitish-clear looking stuff floating around
It kinda looks like broken bits of cellophane or such, waving around as it circulates throughout the tank, and once it goes through the MP10s it gets shredded and eventually disappears

I have numerous lengths of food-grade vinyl hose in the return section of my sump that develop a slimy feel to them, but doesn't this happen to everyone ?

Anyone else have this happen ?
Any suggestions ?

[Northernseacorals]

Originally Posted by gregzz4

Last month I posted this issue as I suspected my ATO water was the cause, but now I don't think this is the case
I get slime in my DT, but not my QT, and both have Osmolators supplied from one ATO holding tank

In my DT, every now and then, I see bits of slimy, whitish-clear looking stuff floating around
It kinda looks like broken bits of cellophane or such, waving around as it circulates throughout the tank, and once it goes through the MP10s it gets shredded and eventually disappears

I have numerous lengths of food-grade vinyl hose in the return section of my sump that develop a slimy feel to them, but doesn't this happen to everyone ?

Anyone else have this happen ?
Any suggestions ?

I have a lime green Caulastrea Furcata coral that sometimes makes a clear thin slime that the power-heads blow around; this happens after hermits climb over it, of if I bump it with my hand in the tank....

It's a possibility

[gregzz4]

Like a little ghost floating around the tank ?

Mine isn't stringy looking, but more sheet-like

[soapy]

Certain corals will shuck off their skin, or at least a slime layer as a way to clean off and renew. I have a Blue ridge coral that does it every now and then. That could be what is happening in your tank?

[gregzz4]

It's not sticky like coral sluffing ...

It just floats around like sheets/pieces until it gets shredded and then goes away

Sometimes it gets stuck on SPS or LR, but it eventually keeps circulating until it disappears

[Madreefer]

Once you sell your foxface you'll probably never see it again. My best bet is that it's from that fish. I have a magnificent foxface and I see the same stuff your describing come off of him.