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11-25-2007, 06:45 AM
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| | Bristle Worm
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Texas Age: 40
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 |  white gunk when pump is turned off and on
I have been running my tank for 6 months now and the power went out this weekend for a second. When the power came back on, there was a bunch of white things floating out of the pipe. They looked like tiny feathers that were swimming around in the water. I turned the pump off and back on and then my tank was filled with these white things.
What are they and are they a problem? Has anybody else seen this hapen before? Do I need to take my pipes out and clean them? | 
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11-25-2007, 06:48 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Orlando,Fl.
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sounds like coepods too me.without a pic cant tell you.but are they are good if it is them. | |
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11-25-2007, 06:49 AM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Lancaster Ohio Age: 35
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Sounds like some sort of pods or something more then likely a good thing then bad. Pictures would help. | |
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11-25-2007, 07:12 AM
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| | Bristle Worm
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I didn't take pictures because they didn't seem like they were moving. It was more like feathers floating around in the tanks | |
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11-25-2007, 07:16 AM
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| | Caribbean Reef Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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My return pump from my sump does the same time everytime it shuts off.. I just thought it was some type of pod like everyone else was saying.... | |
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11-25-2007, 07:52 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami Age: 39
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When was the last time you cleaned out that pump? I have never seen that in my systems. _________ 9YR OLD 90G 30G w/d Mag18 150G skimmer 692w MH,yel&kole tang,foxface,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Goniopora(2), Acropora(2),Brain, Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, R&G open brain, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, enias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew  | |
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11-25-2007, 09:22 AM
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| | Bristle Worm
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I cleaned out the pump, it didn't have anything in it. It's gotta be in the pipes. | |
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11-25-2007, 09:37 AM
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| | Whip-Lash Squid
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Elizabethtown, IN Age: 40
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Did you have any snails get through the intake to the pump?? _________ Scott 265g (Peninsula)
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11-25-2007, 09:47 AM
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| | Clown Trigger
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tatamy, PA Age: 15
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Otty, i had a snail get into the intake of my Oceanrunner 3500 thats on a closed loop.....man the hermits were feasting, and i had a 50% water change scheduled that evening........ | |
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11-25-2007, 10:19 AM
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| | Bristle Worm
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There aren't any snails in the sump.
If this was a snail, it was one hell of snail because there was a lot of this stuff come out. It didn't cloud the water, it just floated around..... It looked like the fish had had a pillow contest that went bad.
When my wife gets home with the camera, I'll turn the pump off and take a picture when it comes back on. | |
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