aberg12012
01/04/2005, 09:19 PM
Last evening I turned off the pumps for about 45 mins while I took a bunch of photos. This was around 7pm.
Then I turned the pumps back on, and of coarse this created a cloud of normal debris in the tank from presumably the return lines having junk being kicked out.
Then after the lights went out, I notticed the tank was still looking cloudy. Sorta similar to when my clown fish decides to clear out the DSB under her RBTA. I passed it off as this.
Then this morning I woke up, the tank was quite cloudy, and not from the southdown sand. This was different. Much like the cloudiness you get in FW tank when there is a bacteria bloom. This was while only my 10K VHO and PC actinics were running. Then at 11am, when my MH kicked on, the cloudiness slowly started clearing up. By the time I left for work at 1:30pm, it was almost, but not quite cleared up. Not sure if the added light is relavant to the cloudiness clearing up or not. But, thats the order of what happened.
I use Kent's 2 part additive, in equal parts. I hadn't added any since about 2 days before this occurance. And unfortunately I havn't had the chance to test PH, Calcium or Alk. I'm posting this from work, so sorry for the lack of details provided.
Maybe tonight when I get home at 1am I'll do some testing. I'm just assuming the cloudiness was caused from precip? Maybe my PH was a little off and caused it, which could explain when my MH kicked in, it cleared up?? I'm just throwing out ideas, nothing with any real evidance. Normally the PH runs 8.3-8.4, alk is usually between 8-10 and calcium 380-440 (depending on if i keep up with the 2 part.) I never thought the higher end of this would cause visible precipitation.
Guess I'm just wondering if I'm way off base thinking this was precip.
Then I turned the pumps back on, and of coarse this created a cloud of normal debris in the tank from presumably the return lines having junk being kicked out.
Then after the lights went out, I notticed the tank was still looking cloudy. Sorta similar to when my clown fish decides to clear out the DSB under her RBTA. I passed it off as this.
Then this morning I woke up, the tank was quite cloudy, and not from the southdown sand. This was different. Much like the cloudiness you get in FW tank when there is a bacteria bloom. This was while only my 10K VHO and PC actinics were running. Then at 11am, when my MH kicked on, the cloudiness slowly started clearing up. By the time I left for work at 1:30pm, it was almost, but not quite cleared up. Not sure if the added light is relavant to the cloudiness clearing up or not. But, thats the order of what happened.
I use Kent's 2 part additive, in equal parts. I hadn't added any since about 2 days before this occurance. And unfortunately I havn't had the chance to test PH, Calcium or Alk. I'm posting this from work, so sorry for the lack of details provided.
Maybe tonight when I get home at 1am I'll do some testing. I'm just assuming the cloudiness was caused from precip? Maybe my PH was a little off and caused it, which could explain when my MH kicked in, it cleared up?? I'm just throwing out ideas, nothing with any real evidance. Normally the PH runs 8.3-8.4, alk is usually between 8-10 and calcium 380-440 (depending on if i keep up with the 2 part.) I never thought the higher end of this would cause visible precipitation.
Guess I'm just wondering if I'm way off base thinking this was precip.