ScottT1980
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I maintain a 200 gallon tank with a large BTA in it. A few days ago, just after topping off the tank with water, individuals found the tank EXTREMELY cloudy. I was called in, checked our top off container, found no residue. Calcium/Alk was in good shape (no precipitation sort of event), and felt like a bacterial bloom was highly unlikely in that short of a time frame.
The last thing I could think of was something going sexual in the tank, and I would imagine the large BTA would be the most likely culprit. Is this a pretty infrequent occurance? Does anything trigger it (i.e. stress)? Most everything in the tank seemed ok, with the only exception being the BTA (it was shriveled and recessed in its little cave in the rockwork).
After quickly doing a large water change, running a few pounds of carbon, and dumping the skimmer continuously, the problem was resolved. Now it is as if nothing happened and all inhabitants look ok.
Is a spawning event a pretty good assumption? Anything else that could have caused this? Been doing this for 6 or 7 years, never once saw something like this.
Take er easy
Scott
The last thing I could think of was something going sexual in the tank, and I would imagine the large BTA would be the most likely culprit. Is this a pretty infrequent occurance? Does anything trigger it (i.e. stress)? Most everything in the tank seemed ok, with the only exception being the BTA (it was shriveled and recessed in its little cave in the rockwork).
After quickly doing a large water change, running a few pounds of carbon, and dumping the skimmer continuously, the problem was resolved. Now it is as if nothing happened and all inhabitants look ok.
Is a spawning event a pretty good assumption? Anything else that could have caused this? Been doing this for 6 or 7 years, never once saw something like this.
Take er easy
Scott
