New to Acros, QT white spots.

[Tide2water]

I ordered a number of frags last week online and have them all in my QT tank. Last night I noticed white spots on my Light Saber and a stringy film on my Creature. It seems way more stringy tonight. I fed Reef Roids last night and figured it was a feeding response of some kind. Clearly that’s not the case. Does anybody have insight as to what is up? It was gone this morning and is back again tonight.

 

[Dburr1014]

Slime means something is stressing it.

Tell us about the setup/parameters.

And, BTW, blue pics are terrible for forum members to see anything in them. Look for yourself, pretend it's your first time looking at them.

Welcome to the forum.

Edit: looking again, are those white bugs on the 2nd Pic? Very hard to see.

 

[Tide2water]

It was gone again this morning, I did do a 20% water change after posting this last night. A few facts about my little QT tank.


20g Lyphard glass tank (amazon)


Salinity--34.5
Temp--79
pH -----8.3
Nh4--- .01
NO2-- --0
NO3-----0
Phos----.10
Alk-------9.4
Ca-------456

This thing is PACKED with pods, long story short this tank is the feed source for my Mandarin in my DT. She was a re-home that was supposedly eating frozen feeds but is NOT.

Aquamax 1.5 HOB for skimmer and filtration.

Lighting is Smatfarm G5. (I'll post channel settings tonight)

Flow is provided by an Eflux 6013, (Two 660gph pumps)

I just finished a 4th round of flatworm Exit about 3 weeks ago after getting flatworms from a few QT'd frags. I ran GFO heavy for each round and followed with a decent sized water change. Cleanup crew (Emerald crabs, Nassarius, and blue legs)

The second pic looks the most like bugs of some kind but I could not see any movement. I'll take some pics in different lighting tonight if it's still present. I debated but ended on the blue due to the contrast it provided, also I cleaned my hand with some nasty chemicals yesterday so I wasn't going to stick my hands in the tank last night to pull for pictures.

I think that is everything relevant. I'll re-run water quality tonight and add in Magnesium.

 

[Tide2water]

Todays update. Only one frag had slight stringy film, and the spots on the Light Saber were significantly smaller. Again, all was gone this morning. See up to date water quality below.

Salinity--34.5
Temp--79
pH -----8.5
Nh4--- .02
NO2-- --0
NO3-----0
Phos----.12
Alk-------8.7
Ca-------476
Mg------1405


Lighting channels as follows:

A-10%
B-40%
C-40%
D-30%
E-20%
F-10%

If your not familiar with the light these are the channel descriptions:

A 14000 cold white
B blue plus being 450, 455,460
C blue purple plus 430,455,470
D purple plus 410 violet, 420 purple
E green plus 520 green
F red plus 630 red



Side Note; I'm looking at buying a PAR meter, not looking for lab grade but accurate and dependable are important, any suggestions?

 

[Dburr1014]

Todays update. Only one frag had slight stringy film, and the spots on the Light Saber were significantly smaller. Again, all was gone this morning. See up to date water quality below.

Salinity--34.5
Temp--79
pH -----8.5
Nh4--- .02
NO2-- --0
NO3-----0
Phos----.12
Alk-------8.7
Ca-------476
Mg------1405


Lighting channels as follows:

A-10%
B-40%
C-40%
D-30%
E-20%
F-10%

If your not familiar with the light these are the channel descriptions:

A 14000 cold white
B blue plus being 450, 455,460
C blue purple plus 430,455,470
D purple plus 410 violet, 420 purple
E green plus 520 green
F red plus 630 red



Side Note; I'm looking at buying a PAR meter, not looking for lab grade but accurate and dependable are important, any suggestions?

Sounds like they are settling in.