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Originally Posted by mcgyvr
Is that stuff all over the outside of the overflow box what we are talking about here?
Your sock just looks like a dirty sock and I'm really not seeing anything there to be concerned about..Certainly not to keep restarting a tank over..
If its the overflow scrap some off throw it on a paper towel and snap a pic..
Right after that just scrape it out/siphon.. It looks dirty man.. fix that
Oh and woot woot to Crystal Lake.. I'm a LZ native stuck down with all these rednecks
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HA! Too funny mcgyvr, what a small world, LZ shore is nearby!
So hell yeah that stuff gets everywhere and coats everything! It was on the overflow, rocks, sand you name it. It covers EVERYTHING although you can't really see it in that pic because it was from my crappy iPhone.
I just changed out the Marco Rock as it was completely covered in this stuff again and vacuumed out the remaining (tiny amounts) of white sand (aragonite based) that was left in the tank. I have another thread going about my endless fight with clumping/hardening sand:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh....php?t=2619376
I scraped and siphoned as much as I could out of the tank while doing a 20g water change.
I also added NON-ARAGONITE Tahitian Moon Sand (other active thread about my fight with clumping/hardening sand) and everything looks clean again. But I've been here 3 times before and the stuff just keeps coming back. It takes about 4-5 months but it will eventually cover everything. I'm hoping finally identify and eradicate it's return this time. At least that's what I'm hoping for if I don't lose my sanity in the mean time.
So this time I'm starting with the lights out for 3 days in an attempt to kill off what still might be in the tank/system.
I also added bottle a bottle of Bio Spira to help bio seed the new Marco Rock and TMS sand added to the tank. you can see there is still a small amount of the stuff on the back overflow that I couldn't completely scrape off and the tank is still a bit cloudy from adding the Bio Spira.
So, any other suggestions/advice at this point? I sooo want to be able to just enjoy looking at a clean un-crap infested fish only SW tank...