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JAustin
05/24/2009, 11:47 AM
I woke up today to a cloudy tank. I just found a dead mexican turbo snail....the big kind. Could that be the reason the tank is cloudy? I'm not sure if something small like that could be the reason why i have about 65g of cloudy water.

I'm going to add a polly filter in an hour as soon as my LFS opens up. I also put new carbon in the TLF reactor.

Logzor
05/24/2009, 11:52 AM
It is either a bacterial bloom or a kalk overdose of some sort.

JAustin
05/24/2009, 11:57 AM
Kalk is added through a reactor that doesn not use pumps. It's large RO canister DIY reactor. Alklinity is 9.3 dkh, cal is 470, MG is 1420, ammonia nitrate and nitrite are 0. SG is 1.025.

I did change over to a 60g cube 3 weeks ago, i used new live sand and all my old LR. Didn't have a problem untill today.

walkthedog
05/24/2009, 06:05 PM
Sounds like a bloom to me caused by changing tanks. If eveything but the snail is ok I wouldn't worry too much.