mix of red sea coral pro and blue bucket with ro/di. (for me). Have 2 other tanks in same room use same water made at same time in all tanks and only happened in the new pico setup. but lets focus on posters tank as I got mine resolved.
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Red Sea blue. Not pro.
This means that this path of explanation was closedRed Sea blue. Not pro.
Agreed.This means that this path of explanation was closed
Sincerely Lasse
I have been basting the rock and letting it collect in the filter socks for over 30hrs now and I ran out of socks. Lol. Going to be cleaning 10 felt socks today. It has covered all my probes and causing incorrect readings. I find if I baste them all then I’ll get normal readings for a few hrs. I’m worried this will clog my trident feed line.
Agreed.
My wife just admitted she had a candle burning in the room next to the tank 3 days ago for 2hrs before she remembered I asked her not to.
Well it’s the first thing I have come across. As it reads it is a “highly scented” candle. The main display is looking much better with all the basting. Now it’s mostly in the sump and the side tanks. The refugium red Ogo is coated in it and little bubbles.Normal candle will not cause this - it gives only carbon dioxide into the air. Our living room is normally filled with tealights during winter time - nema problema
However - was it a scented candle - it maybe change things. I have seen articles saying that Scented candle will form formaldehyde (its an organic carbon compound) when they burn. Especially limonene that gives a smell of lemon and orange. It is in itself a organic carbon source C10H16 .
Note - this is a long shoot with a longbow - have never heard of scented candle that cause bacteria bloom in an aquarium - but what I know for source - is it in your air - it will end up in the water too - especially if you use a skimmer
Sincerely Lasse
Yeah I did not want anything burning in the house. Well I will wait for the ICP test and continue to baste and remove as much as I can.Just say to here that there is suspicions that compounds in scented candles probably can be converted to formaldehyde (in the air) in certain circumstances. Formaldehyde is classed as cancerogenic
Sincerely Lasse
Oh wow! Yeah that will definitely create a problem. I will continue to think about what it could have been and watch closely toward everything that goes in the tank. If it does return I will let everyone know on this thread.Interesting if you can - sooner or later - knit this event with something more than the candles. For many years ago - a friend of mine call me up and ask how to get rid of white algae (in a freshwater Tropheus tank) There is no white algae I said - it must be bacteria that grow in your tank (this was long, long before we know anything about dissolved organic carbon and what it does in a tank) No its algae he said. We talk for more than a hour - and I could not convince him. After two weeks we talk again and I ask him how it was with these white algae. His answer was that his girlfriend have been very angry at him because he had put in 1 kg of her fructose in the aquarium instead of the table salt just beside the fructose package....... I was right
Sincerely Lasse