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11-06-2007, 07:44 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Mexico City Age: 30
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 |  My beautiful Aragonite turned in this
hi, i just came home from a 3 day vacation and found my beautiful white aragonite looking like this. 
please tell me this is normal. if so, when will this go away... does this have anything to do with the tank being cycled' | 
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11-06-2007, 07:48 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: toronto
Posts: 26
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always a nice suprise isn't it! that is a diatom outbreak on your gravel. how old is your tank? mine is 3 months now and my sand is finally starting to return to its normal off white color. diatoms feed on phosphates and silicates mostly, and usually bloom in the initial phases of cycling a tank, or with overfeeding and/or anerobic areas {where there is no current to remove excess nutrient build up}
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29 gallon reef
2x55watt 10,000k PC, 1 actintic, 1 regular
moon lights
20#live rock
20# live sand
prizm skimmer
magnum HOT filter
powersweep powerhead
1 clown
1 scooter blenny
1 bicolor blenny
1 cleaner wrasse
1 benggai cardinal
1 red flasher wrasse
8 blue leg hermits
1 sand sifting star
3 turbo snails
?? cerith snails
1 sally lightfoot crab
1 pineapple coral
1 candy cane coral frag
1 yellow sponge ball
some green star polyps
some zoo polyps
1 gonipora that seems to have lost the will to live | |
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11-06-2007, 07:54 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Mexico City Age: 30
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thanks for your reply.. my tank is just 1 month old.... so, understanding what you are saying, this doesnt mean my tank has already cycled, right'
it is definately no good surprise. it is also growing on all my live roch and my glass... | |
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11-06-2007, 08:13 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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perfectly normal, should go away within one or two more months, give or take. orale vato _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | |
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11-06-2007, 08:22 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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It too will pass...
Get some hemits, they will help clean it up. _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
- MIKE PALLETTA - (2008 Reef log) ("OmarD"/"Scott") | |
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11-06-2007, 08:42 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Took about six weeks for the diatoms to go away, then we got a red algae bloom, a green algae bloom, and now the substrate is beautiful almost 5 months now...The tank is nearly encrusted with coralline algae at this point.
All part of the process...I know we were freaked when it starting happening.  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
29 gallon
2 Clown
1 Coral Beauty
1 Fairy Wrasse
24 FOWLR
Dwarf Lion
125 gallon African Cichlid Tank http://home.comcast.net/~pizzal/index.html 
"The more you learn, the more acutely aware you become of your ignorance" | |
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11-06-2007, 09:17 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: niles, ohio Age: 32
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It will go away and things will start looking better. | |
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11-06-2007, 10:35 PM
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| | Ritteri Anemone
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Buffalo N.Y. Age: 24
Posts: 629
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i got 3 red legged hermits in my 44 gal for the same thing, they started to clean it up as soon as they were put in the tank. 2.5 wks later almost pure white sand. | |
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11-07-2007, 01:32 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Age: 25
Posts: 890
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Welcome to the club chap! I've got the same thing happening in my tank... right now... :mad: | |
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11-07-2007, 01:56 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
Posts: 3,447
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Aren't micro-organisms great?! _________ 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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