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09-20-2004, 03:14 AM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Woodbury, MN,Minnesota
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 |  white junk
i hear you guys talking about the white crud that you have to scrub off the glass after water changes. i have become used to that now. but its driving me nuts tring to figure out a way to clear up my live rock. every thing in the tank gets coated. any ideas? i just bought a pretty exspensive hunk of rock really red and has alot of growth already. looks like @#$& now covered white.
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55 gal, standard florescent, 1 power head, 50 lbs live rock, 45 lbs reef sand, 1 yellow striped maroon clownfish, 1 percula clown fish, 7 scarlet hermit crabs, | 
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09-20-2004, 06:22 AM
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| | KingFish
Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Pt. Richmond, Ca. Age: 38
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     | Re: white junk
That is strange.
Are you dosing anything? How are you adding it?
Are you mixing salt in the tank?
Do you have southdown sand? Did you rinse it?  | 
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09-20-2004, 06:36 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Marina del Rey, California
Posts: 3,524
| Re: white junk
Great questions Matt.
dano,
If you put your tank description in your signature, got to your profile and edit, we will be able to better assist you. _________ Just tryin to recreate God's perfection in a glass bowl. 20 Gallon Reef W/Live Rock, mated pair of Maroon Clowns, Softies, 110 watts PC 10,000k lighting, and skimmer.  | |
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09-20-2004, 07:21 AM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Woodbury, MN,Minnesota
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| Re: white junk
i have a 55 gal. i mix in a 6 gallon bucket checking the gravity thourghly making sure the salt is dissovled compleaty. i tested the ph it was 8.0 yesterday so i buffered it back to normal. ammoina was less than one and no nitrates. i used a white reef sand and thought i rinsed it pretty good. when i first added water to dial in my filters it did it the same. the lfs told me to add some damino damsels since they are pretty hardy. they are very active and are very hungy all the time. so the wild life seems to be ok. | |
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09-20-2004, 07:35 AM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Woodbury, MN,Minnesota
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| Re: white junk
its kind of a hard white film that turns rock solid that i have to put some muscel into scrubing off. when i get home from work ill try to get a good pic and have to post it in the morning. if you tink of something let me know or youll hear from me in the morning | |
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09-21-2004, 03:22 AM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Woodbury, MN,Minnesota
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| Re: white junk
i'll see hows this works out its my first time posting. one of the pics you can see off to the left that i scrubbed the glass clean. the rocks used to be bright red | |
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09-21-2004, 03:25 AM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Woodbury, MN,Minnesota
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| Re: white junk
i dont know how to add more than one pic per post sorry i have to post them seperatly, this one you can see the film on the rock its like it froze the growth. when i first bought it it was free flowing | |
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09-21-2004, 03:27 AM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Woodbury, MN,Minnesota
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| Re: white junk
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09-21-2004, 03:28 AM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Woodbury, MN,Minnesota
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| Re: white junk
you can see the carity is ok | |
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