whatcaneyedo
03/08/2008, 02:26 AM
I just thought I'd do my best to share this experiance with anyone who might be interested in this sort of thing.
MH off at 10:00pm then actinics off at 11:00pm... between 11:30 and 11:45 something started spawing. The tank is a thick milky white with tiny yellow eggs floating everywhere. Many corals are having a great time gobbling them up and the protien skimmer is going a bit nuts.
Yesterday morning when I got up my water was cloudy like this and my skimmer was full so I believe this is the second night this has taken place.
Earlier today when I did my weekly testing I got these results (problematic salifert test kits):
Temp 78 F
Salinity 1.024
pH 8.1
Alk 9 dkh (test kit gives false readings might be 7 dkh)
Ca 400
Mag 1260
nitrate 5 ppm
However I added some baking soda and turbo calcium to bring my alk, ca and hopefully my pH up a bit since then... so current values are:
pH 7.9 (drops at night)
Ca 440
Alk 12 dkh (might be 10... I need a new test kit)
My tank is a 120 gal mixed reef with 30+ corals including soft, LPS and SPS plus a few clams and a sebae anemone etc. I've been inspecting everything closely and I cant tell what is causing this event.
MH off at 10:00pm then actinics off at 11:00pm... between 11:30 and 11:45 something started spawing. The tank is a thick milky white with tiny yellow eggs floating everywhere. Many corals are having a great time gobbling them up and the protien skimmer is going a bit nuts.
Yesterday morning when I got up my water was cloudy like this and my skimmer was full so I believe this is the second night this has taken place.
Earlier today when I did my weekly testing I got these results (problematic salifert test kits):
Temp 78 F
Salinity 1.024
pH 8.1
Alk 9 dkh (test kit gives false readings might be 7 dkh)
Ca 400
Mag 1260
nitrate 5 ppm
However I added some baking soda and turbo calcium to bring my alk, ca and hopefully my pH up a bit since then... so current values are:
pH 7.9 (drops at night)
Ca 440
Alk 12 dkh (might be 10... I need a new test kit)
My tank is a 120 gal mixed reef with 30+ corals including soft, LPS and SPS plus a few clams and a sebae anemone etc. I've been inspecting everything closely and I cant tell what is causing this event.