Skimmer going crazy - tank is cloudy
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mikedelgado
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This exact thing happened to me about a month ago.that night everything looked super, the next morning BAM!! just like your pics. I think something spawned. I didnt loose anything but I had been away it would have been bad. If I knew what spawned I would remove it.
SnowManSnow
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I'm betting on a snail spawn of some sort
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1DeR9_3Hy
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Tomorrow will be day 5 of the new de-nitrator i hooked up. Although this would be the first occurence i have heard of that causing something like this.
I would say something spawned too...but i dont have anything large enough to release this much "whatever it is"...all i have a frags.
Ill probably never figure this out, but its kind of neat to see so i posted it.
Frogmanx82
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It looks like something died. You didn't have any turbo snails did you?
Luckylouse
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My Turbos bite the dust all of the time I've never had that happen before. I guess it is possible though.
1DeR9_3Hy
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No turbos, only crabs.
Its already cleared up 50% (its hard to quantify turbidity lol), so im not to worried about it. Everything still looks good, PE is good and the one fish is acting normal.
Frogmanx82
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Its pretty easy to tell if something has died. Does the tank have any strong odor?
Runfrumu
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Sea cucumber maybe? Have one? Mine will spawn from time to time at night, and make the skimmer go crazy, but I haven't noticed the water getting cloudy.
Maybe kalk if you use that. I had a reactor get clogged up one time for a few days, then when it unclogged itself, the water level dropped enough to dump around a gallon of kalk in the tank. It was cloudy like that, but luckily I didn't lose anything and have since quit using kalk.
Maybe kalk if you use that. I had a reactor get clogged up one time for a few days, then when it unclogged itself, the water level dropped enough to dump around a gallon of kalk in the tank. It was cloudy like that, but luckily I didn't lose anything and have since quit using kalk.
mikedelgado
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If the junk your skimmer is overflowing smells funky like mine did I would guess that it had to be something organic like a spawn or something pretty big died
1DeR9_3Hy
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Nothing to die, just one fish, some crabs (that are being pulled today...they are getting replaced by snails) and frags.
No sea cuc. No kalk.
Skimmer foam oddly has very little scent, go figure. I checked on it again, and its almost 100% clearer than last night. Ill change out the sock and see if i can see anything in it, but i wont count on it.
Like i said, its a complete oddity to me what would cause this. Alk, pH, Po4 and N03 are all unchanged.
Frogmanx82
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I would think whatever it is would be organic or the skimmers wouldn't be acting up. Hopefully after a few days and some water changes you should be ok. If there is no chance you spilled or added some organics into the tank. I would agree with the spawn theory. Whatever it was must have been big.
