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Unread 10/05/2006, 01:02 AM   #4
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Originally posted by atty
have you ever used medication. metholite green will make your skimmate go dark green
nope, never dosed anything except Ca, Alk, and Mg.

Quote:
Originally posted by jdieck
... in your case with a new tank I think the skimmer is pulling mostly microalgae stuff thus the green color.
That makes sense.

I have a UV sterilizer that I have not hooked up yet. Any speculations on what would happen to microalgea spores / skimmate when I hook it up?


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