Skimmer producing lime green skimmate?

[RedSoxReefer]

I have recently overhauled my 46 bow adding new water and a fair ammount of new sand. I added a Remora Pro and for the first few days it was produucing a brownish yellow skimmate, now it is producing antifreeze green colored skimmate. The only inhabitants in my tank are a zebra snail, 6 shroom frags and a frag of star polyps. Ive seen pics of people that are producing dark coffee colored skimmate and was wondering what is going on with my tank? Could this be because i am not feeding my tank and i have no fish to produce waste? Or is it because my skimmer isnt working properly? I also have a standard hang on flter with carbon media running at the same time....Thanks!

dan

 

[klasiksb]

Are you adding DT's to your tank?

 

[RedSoxReefer]

what are DTs?

 

[King-Kong]

Do you dose Kent products?

 

[RedSoxReefer]

Some, I add kent pro buffer dKH and phytoplex, i had a couple small bottles of calcium iodine annd strontium left over from seachem that im replacing with kent when they run out.

 

[RedSoxReefer]

i also had a small green hair algae blooom mostly small strands on the glass, either it was hair algae or it was some kind of macro bacause it looked more fernlike than strands.

 

[cdangel0]

What color is the Kent Phytoplex?

 

[RedSoxReefer]

green but i dont add that much to the tank probly 5 mls for the entire week.

 

[cdangel0]

How does the water look over-all in the tank?

I'm wondering if you've got free algae floating in the water that the skimmer is pulling out.

Algae and Phyto are about the only things I can think of that turn water green.

 

[RedSoxReefer]

The water is clear, i think you may be right about the algae in the water though. Mabye when i mag'd the glass the skimmer just picked up all the displaced algae. But if that is it then why is my skimmer not pulling anythng else from the water?

 

[cdangel0]

You don't have anything else in the water to pull. You don't have many corals - which contribute extremely little to the amount of stuff your skimmer pulls out. Things have to go in to the water to be removed from the water - i.e. poop, waste, food, etc.

No fish, minimal corals = no poo = no skimmate.

 

[King-Kong]

Dosing certain Kent products create the lime green skimmate (but now I cant remember which products specifically).

I've seen this discussed in skimmer threads before.

 

[Craig Lambert]

St. Patrick's Day Hoax? Maybe someone put a little green food coloring in the collection cup?