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Unread 10/08/2014, 01:49 PM   #1
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Here is a great puzzle for yall!!

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Unread 10/08/2014, 02:39 PM   #2
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are you dosing alk or kalk?


do you have a picture of the tank and how it looks ? didnt see one in the thread


have you started running carbon just in case?


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Unread 10/08/2014, 02:44 PM   #3
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ok just seen your pics, it could be a bacterial bloom but it should have passed within a few days unless the carbon source was being continued.

other than that it could be precipitate from a alk overdose , test results will be off if this is the case but check your doser/amounts or double check the source


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That's the thing ita a fairly new tank and I do not dose anything at the moment and have not dosed anything in the past. Do you think carbon would help clear it up ?


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If what you're seeing is a bacterial bloom, a UV unit might help. So might a fine mechanical filter, like a diatom filter. I would skim a bit wetter and stop feeding for a while, as well.


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Unread 10/08/2014, 05:46 PM   #6
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That's the thing ita a fairly new tank and I do not dose anything at the moment and have not dosed anything in the past. Do you think carbon would help clear it up ?
hard to say whether or not carbon would clear it up, depends if its just a bacterial bloom or a couple different causes making it like that but it wont hurt to run , as well make sure the tank is getting plenty of oxygen in case its a bacterial bloom.


adding the nopox would have caused the serious bloom you see now depending on how much you used , not sure what the murkiness was prior though , the mysis could do it if it was just a little murky,so cant really say what it was or what caused it, perhaps something foreign found its way into the tank as well......alot can cause a small bit of cloudiness but most isnt serious and passes quickly.


a uv would help but if theres no livestock in the tank a bit of time will allow it to pass , just go back to the basics and add only what the tank needs on a day to day basis.

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