Can you guess what this growth means

[Phycodurus]

The face-hugger xenomorph from Aliens died before it could mature ... saving the entire human race!!


Uh-oh ... the Vogons just showed up! :O

 

[TriggerFinger]

Carbon dosing gone wrong??

 

[SantaMonica]

Interesting carbon dosing. But the problem here was actually involving the scrubber directly, and not another part of the tank.

 

[rkpetersen]

The suspense is killing me!

 

[Auto-pilot]

looks like someone pooped into the tank lol

 

[SantaMonica]

More guesses needed

 

[Charles4400]

Something contaminated the actual air supply going into the air pump?
Perhaps some funky fungal spores which ended up in the scrubber being heated by the led and fed by nutrients from the algae quickly growing and clogging the scrubber holes and making a perfect growing environment for creating a Thing/Alien hybrid?

 

[reeftivo]

nutrients bottomed out causing a die off?

or some spawning event where the scrubber collected the aftermath?

 

[SantaMonica]

Nice idea of contaminants. But I think it's just regular air going in. It has more to do with how it was operated.

Nutrients have not bottomed. And everything in the scrubber is actually growing there; it was not pulled in or swam in.

 

[DangerDave]

Ok, we give up.

 

[starypotter]

I like the mushroom idea.

 

[Charles4400]

Someone put a heater in there?

 

[Stuartmercer]

Did it grow so much that the surface was exposed to air and dried out?

 

[beaslbob]

you kid was helping daddy and filled up the scrubber with stuff.

 

[Purpletang92]

Light cycle was too long , Cyano took hold because of it and the GHA could not compete ?

 

[SantaMonica]

No heater; is at tank temp.

The air idea is good, but needs more details.

No there was no stuff added; it's all growing.

The lighting was 18 hours I think, and was not changed. And I don't think there is much cyano; the top is about 1/2" thick slime, and the bottom is 2" thick gha.

 

[JPergamo]

Were the bubbles too small somehow and caused a skimmer effect? Basically a buildup of skimmate?

 

[SantaMonica]

No nothing there is a "buildup", or was "put" there. Everything is growing.

 

[Cory]

I believe they changed half the leds for another kind

 

[SantaMonica]

Ah never thought of that. But no, they are all the same red.