Identify what this slime is please ???

[kromix]

So I don't have any of it in my Display Tank only in the mini-refuge in the back of my nano-cube. its only within the boundaries of the egg crate. Now that I have a light there, things grow back there lol.......
It is really gooey and kind of purple I guess, and it is growing over the eggcrate as you can see and over some hair algae....
Maybe once I identify it I can toss a certain creature back there like a crab or something?
I know many people's first guess is CynoBacteria, but it has a really thick GOOEY consistency, not the same consistency atleast of what I have see it as on the sand surface? And its more purple than red ?

 

[nano-newb1983]

not sure what it is, but i have the same thing im my fuge and mine is more of a brown color

 

[shyfish]

Hi,
It looks like cyano to me.
If it is...Nothing is going to eat it, and it either poisoning your tank by being fed back into it, or since it is in the fuge, eating the stuff that would poison it. So I am no help as to weather or not it is good, or bad.
I don't think it is the light causing it, although it needs light to survive. I think it is caused by phosphates in the water.
I am sure someone will pipe in and tell you what to do if anything. I just think I know what it is.

 

[kromix]

Thanks,
so anyone else, should I remove it all before it gets to the main display and lights out in the refuge so it dies out or ?
or what is it and what can I throw in there to eat it, such as a crab or somethin

 

[bdhb12]

If it's only on the Crate Can you wash it off?

 

[mckevinfang]

that is Cyano

!!! usually due to lack of flow and an abundance of minerals in your water. try to manually remove as much of it as you can before it spreads!! but in a mature tank cyano comes and goes ive seen pods clean it up. IME if you dont do something quick itll cause you so much problems later on! good luck

 

[kromix]

To verify, the majority of pictures I have seen of cyano here doesn't match what this stuff is , its more maroone slimey velvety / gooey in texture, as u can see in the first pic its off the wall a bit growing over some green hair algae..... Anyone have a picture of cyano thats more maroone/velvety so I can compare? The majority of cyano pics I see are like this:

However its not like that?? These pictures look more like sand and mine is more velvetty and gooey ?

 

[geoj]

Well it does not much mater what type of slime it is if you lower nitrate, phosphates, and silicates. The treatment is the same for all slime looking algae. As you treat you may see that removing one nutrient clears the algae and that may help identify it.