anyone with a magic cure or answer?

[kwirky]

omg i think I had that in my 120g tank! THAT crap is what caused me to throw my arms up in frustration and get rid of my reef tank in July! I had zero nitrates, zero phosphates, reduced lighting period, hand removed. nothing worked.

It bubbled, it was like brown snot, and it multiplied like crazy no matter how much I removed. It was an endless battle. I thought it was a slime algae but now in retrospect I'm having second thoughts. Bubbled like crazy and was kinda stringy. I look at that photo and I'm sure it's EXACTLY what I had.

Grew all over the back and side glass (kept the front clean daily with a magnet cleaner). It grew on everything plastic too. Pumps, pipes. It loved pull-zip-ties. There would be 5" long strings of the stuff off zip ties. I'd remove it and they'd be there again 2 days later. I had to feverishly remove it from the plugs of my frags. I was afraid it would grow onto the coral.

Good luck dude. That stuff won the battle in my previous tank: I took it down

On another note though my liverock was kept in a pitch black rubbermaid bin for a few months and now there's NO pests left on my liverock. Most of the macroalgae that was getting out of control is gone too. If you take down your tank in frustration just store your rock for a few months n start a tank back up again