lrs183
01/13/2014, 05:05 AM
Hello everyone,
I don't know if maybe I am just now noticing this or if it has been there since the start. From a glance it appears to be black, especially in comparison to mild greens around it. However, upon scraping it with my nail a good amount it didn't really do anything. I felt like I was just grinding my nail on the rock. No slime or major clumps came off. Just dusty stuff from the rock and a tiny bit of the graininess from it. It looked like maybe a crazy dark green.
I have done the blackout treatment on the tank for the last 2 days. All water parameters were fine prior to starting it. 0/0/0-5. (A/NI/NA). But really nothing seems to have happened. Hasn't gotten bigger, hasn't gotten smaller. There are a few other spots of it throughout the tank. But none of it seems like its doing anything. Maybe dust from carbon bag? I did rinse it a few weeks ago before putting it in but who knows?
Tank is in FOWLR mode right now with a small CUC. I plan to add my first softy coral in a week but I'd like to know if I have an issue or not before moving forward.
I feel bad for asking so many questions on this forum. I can only hope that perhaps someone has obtained an answer to their problem via my post. Thank you for the help!
I don't know if maybe I am just now noticing this or if it has been there since the start. From a glance it appears to be black, especially in comparison to mild greens around it. However, upon scraping it with my nail a good amount it didn't really do anything. I felt like I was just grinding my nail on the rock. No slime or major clumps came off. Just dusty stuff from the rock and a tiny bit of the graininess from it. It looked like maybe a crazy dark green.
I have done the blackout treatment on the tank for the last 2 days. All water parameters were fine prior to starting it. 0/0/0-5. (A/NI/NA). But really nothing seems to have happened. Hasn't gotten bigger, hasn't gotten smaller. There are a few other spots of it throughout the tank. But none of it seems like its doing anything. Maybe dust from carbon bag? I did rinse it a few weeks ago before putting it in but who knows?
Tank is in FOWLR mode right now with a small CUC. I plan to add my first softy coral in a week but I'd like to know if I have an issue or not before moving forward.
I feel bad for asking so many questions on this forum. I can only hope that perhaps someone has obtained an answer to their problem via my post. Thank you for the help!