Okay, so I am going to show just how little I know about reef keeping here lol
Anyways, currently I am fighting two battles, one major and one minor. The minor is that I am having some trouble with my CUC, I've lost most of my snails (only remaining snails after this week are 2 Mexican turbos from original tank, a couple ceriths, and 4 tiny nass's) for an unknown reason, and nothing is touching the GHA that just started up. So hopefully I can find something that will take care of the small GHA that I have and keep it out. The two emeralds, scarlet hermit, zebra hermit and skunk shrimp won't even touch the stuff.
Now for the major issue: I am getting a white-ish/brownish slime developing all over the tank, the glass, the back wall, the rocks, in the back/sump area (for those that at April's meeting, I have the same design tank as mtamorrow), and it's even coating some of the corals. From what I have researched, it appears to be a bacteria outbreak.
Here's what I have done so far:
50% (roughly) water change (25-30% planned for this weekend)
Fresh filter pads (changed weekly)
Added Chaeto to one of the "caddy chambers" in the back
Fresh Chemi-pure Elite
Running skimmer 24x7 at smallest bubble size (still not sure if I have "tuned" this Ghost skimmer correctly, but it's producing a dry skimmate)
Mag-float cleaned the glass and blown off corals with pipette daily
I've noticed the slime has calmed down a bit, but it's still pretty thick on the back of the rocks. So the question I have is should I try the Vodka or H2O2 dosing to help correct things? or just keep on course?
Thanks to the whole community for putting up with a noob with a 20g!
Jordan