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09-17-2005, 09:07 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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|  Cloudy 12 GAL?
Hello all, ok so i wake up this morning and my tank lights are still off, i go and have some breakfast when i come back my 12 gal nano with humpback turretfish is verty cloudy, it wasnt last night any thoughts? im gona do a water change...but do you think he put his poison in the water or somthing? _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
Bulbs:
1 x 54w Fiji Purple T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w Super Actinic Blue T5 HO Flourescent
1 x 54w 14000K AquaBlue 75/25 T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
Hard Stuff:
100+ lb. Fiji Live Rock
65+ lb. Live sand
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09-17-2005, 09:11 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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| Re: Cloudy 12 GAL?
hmmm i am thinking that my calerpa (sp) or...some kind of macro algae started to disinigrade and thats what got the tank cloudy...ugh...but im still not sure
Edit: i think its a feathered calerpa...whats the best way for it not to disinigrate? lol...do i need more water movement? or...trim it more? | |
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09-17-2005, 09:44 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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| Re: Cloudy 12 GAL?
ok...well now im pretty sure it the calerpa...the water is green and i can see it disinigrating...wow...why is this happening? | |
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09-17-2005, 03:11 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: Cloudy 12 GAL?
Caulerpa goes "sexual" meaning, it dies off and spreads itself around! You should see it start to pop up all over the tank soon. I releases all it absorbed nutrients when it does that so get ready to do some water changing! That is one reason I prefer the chaetomorpha. You don't really have that problem so much. On thing to help prevent it from happening is to keep the caulerpa lighted 24 hours a day, but it is not 100% effective.  _________  I Love My Sig By John Hawkins!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date Started 9/04 58 gallon Oceanic Tank, 20 gal DIY sump/fuge w/ Kent Marine Auto top-off, Air Water Ice RO/DI, 10,000 K 175 W MH, 2 VHO 03's 96W each, AquaC EV 120 Skimmer
80 lbs LR, DSB in FUGE, 1 - 2 " LS in tank
Black Brittle Star, Chevron Tang, Crocea Clam, red & green Lobophyllia, Frogspawn, Porites Frag, Caulastrea Frag, Green Ricordia, Asst. Zoas, hermits, astreas, stomatellas, fighting conch  | |
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09-17-2005, 04:43 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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| Re: Cloudy 12 GAL?
ugh....damm that horny plant lol...EWWW MY HAND WAS IN THE WATER!...ok but its not toxic to the fish or anything right? | |
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09-17-2005, 06:41 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: Cloudy 12 GAL?
Umm, yes it is toxic to fish and stuff! It releases all the nutrients it had previously removed from your water, and all at one time! Like I said, do some water changes please | |
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09-17-2005, 07:01 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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| Re: Cloudy 12 GAL?
AHHHH!!!! OK WILL DO...erm am i aiming for like a 100%? i have already done about 30% i took the water out put it in the ground and then put water fro my 55 gal reef in...how much am i gona want to put in? is it really toxic to fish???  | |
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09-17-2005, 07:51 PM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: May 2004 Location: PhillySuburbs, Pennsylvania Age: 42
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| Re: Cloudy 12 GAL?
Well, lets see....if you absorb ammonia and nitrates to live, and then you die, and all that ammonia and nitrate was fixed in your body, where would it go?
If you did the 30%, check the water parameters tomorrow and see where they are. And of course, watch the animals...they will tell you !
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09-17-2005, 08:39 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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| Re: Cloudy 12 GAL?
ok i dont want my buddy to die...he seemed fine today but i will do more water change tomarrow | |
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