Help!!!!

[pewter_jean]

Ok Capo, I read the article, thanks for the info. I am thinking I should be alright. Tomorrow will tell.
Nanook: I am using a good RO/DI unit, and I usally let my water run 24hours. But this weekend if it could go wrong it did, in spades. I had to go to work tonight, and I was running out of time. I had to get this done today. My normal routine is to start the RO unit Friday morning, the Brut can is usally full Friday night, add the salt, let run from Friday night and all day Sat. and Sunday morning change water. With me working 12 and 16 hours a day Sunday night thru Friday morning, I wont run my RO unattended. Don't have time to be mopping up floors. I thought I had more salt than I did. I must have used it, even though I don't know when, I just got that bucket a couple weeks ago, around Thanksgiving. But I didn't have it last night.
Will I upset the tank too much, If I change my salt to IO? I am nervous to finish this bucket.

 

[DrBDC]

I think you just have the new saltwater too high of salinity thus concentrating and giving too high of numbers. If the tank is 440 and 8.6 it's just fine and you need to wait. Coralife always ran about 480sih and about 11ish for me so the new salt is almost a direct ratio higher relating to higher salinity. After that precipitate clears tomorrow you should test them again and bump them if needed. Make sure you test the magnesium levels too as some of the precipitate will be magnesium. Right now while it's still cloudy it is skewing your test numbers higher than they really are.

On salt switch I went from coralife to IO and had no problems. For a reef tank you will want to bump the ca by about 70 ppm and the magnesium by about 100-150 but this is easily done for about a quarter per 32 gallon brute container. If you buy the IO LMK and I'll give you the links for info.

 

[Im Lon 2]

I too think it has to do with the ALK end of it. a few months ago I added some stuff to raise my Alk and added to much by mistake the whole tank turn milky white for about 24 hours, the good thing is everything was okay.

How is everything in the tank now?

GL

 

[pewter_jean]

It has cleared up a bit, not so milky white. But the tank looks like it is covered with gray stringy stuff now. Would think a bomb went off in there and now everything is covered with ash.

 

[DrBDC]

Lots of turkey baster using for the next few days.

 

[Im Lon 2]

Yeah that is what happen with me too. So I'm guess it was the Alk for sure. It left a white film accross everything in the tank, and sump.

 

[pewter_jean]

Tank cleared up nicely today. Some areas look like they suffered some nuclear fallout. But all fish and corals look fine. The anemones and fish ate tonight like nothing happened. I will test in a little while. Just wanted to give the tank a day or so to stabblize so the test would be accurate. This morning dumped out the left over water from the waterchange, there was about a 1/4 of white/gray mud all over the sides and bottom of the brut. Nasty. So I guess I could say I duct another one.
OH, funny thing happened this morning when I got up, The salt that I thought I ran out of, was sitting right there in the livingroom right next to the empty salt buckets I use for changing the water. So I didn't run out after all. I knew I should of had some salt left. Definately one of those weekends. Don't want another.

 

[sirreal63]

I would mix up a gallon of the new salt and test it, if the levels are way off take it back.