Weird????

[akunochi]

Umm ok.

Soooo my tank has cleaned up a lot. Filter sock Has been cleaned MANY times in the last 24 and the LR is cleaning up very nicely. Now onto another issue...

My water has a very Yellow tint. I use RODI water though. It seems to be worse at night and last night I couldn't see from one side of the tank to the other through the end pane.

Also I had a SNail melt. He was alive when I moved him. Wasn't doing anything for about an hour went to move him again and he was a black slimer sludge. (mexican turbo)

Advice input?

 

[returnofsid]

Test your Ammonia. Do any fish seem to be breathing faster, or hanging out near the surface? Ammonia will produce a cloudy tank. It also burns the gills of fish, making it harder for them to breath.

 

[dragoneggs]

Is this a color that you haven't seen before? What is your lighting (in Kelvin)?

 

[akunochi]

Ammonia is at 0 last I checked.

Lighting is 3 250w MH

each end is 20k and the center is 15K

I notice it a little during the day and really bad at night after the lights kick off. I know there is some particulate floating from getting blown off the rock. I can attest to that since my filter sock has been BLACK with algae/detrius from an outbreak earlier this week. I've just never had a snail MELT for no reason. My fish are happy as can be.

Could I just need to run Carbon? Which would suck since I have no carbon reactor.

 

[Chichas01]

ya know what really weird about melting snails? If you put salt on a slug or a reglar old land snail, they melt. how the heck did snails end up in salt water? Now THAT is weird :lol:

 

[roscoe]

Sounds like you may have copper in your system. Where did you get your rock was it used in a fish only system before? Copper is ussed to treat fish from ich and other decease. If so there is a possibility that the rock has absorbed into it and now is releaseing it into your water. The snail melting away is the reason why I suspect copper.

 

[akunochi]

OH @#&EYT Is there a fix?????

 

[akunochi]

That's not what I want to here....start over is the general concensus. I hope not , because I cannot afford to start over....

 

[akunochi]

It wasn't the rock it was me. I made a crucial mistake in construction. I am fixing it. Now how can I remove the copper/leaked metals?

 

[returnofsid]

How have you determined that it is, in fact, a copper problem? There are chemical absorbing pads that may remove copper. Chemi Pure is one brand. Not sure of what others there may be.

 

[akunochi]

I haven't confirmed it yet. But the brass fitting I forgot about would make sense to release copper. Yes I'm a jack1@#$%. I'm going to get it tested later today. I have found all neccesary components to begin treatment if neccesary though and the old fitting is GONE. Oh well live and learn

 

[ico2004]

Sorry to hear about your tank. Good luck!!!

 

[akunochi]

It's ok. There were only a few pilot frags. All the ones I really care about are in my neo nano. I lost some 2 frag polyps I took off a mini colony I had.

 

[akunochi]

I got tested at 0ppm copper. There may be trace amounts though so I will be running media to remove it. Also some carbon.

 

[dragoneggs]

Agree on the carbon with the yellow tint... especially since your lights are high K. You said ammonia is zero... phosphates?

 

[scottmdebord]

wow that sucks seth you getting everthing uder control now?

 

[akunochi]

Ammonia is Zero I'll check with another kit...phosphates tested zero on my Elos kit.

My tank is MUCH MUCH clearer than before after changing those valves though. Maybe I caught it before it was too late.

 

[scottmdebord]

Good let me know if there is anything I can help you out with

 

[akunochi]

Will do. I'm looking at all the options I've got right now. It's crazy how levels can be where they are supposed to be, but it is still "bad" water.