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No. I was using vinegar to "wash" my hands before putting them in the tank but have since stopped and havent touched the water since the bloom started except to replace filter socks and install the UV and DE filter since they both run in tank and are in the display.Are you dosing any form of carbon source?
What was the timeframe from when you started dosing Kalk to when the water became white and cloudy? Have you considered stopping the Kalk and raising the Mg to the recommended level?Originally my alk was 6.2 and pH 7.9 and after about a week of dosing kalk in the top off alk was 9.1 and pH at 8.3.
I ran this for an week or so and then started testing all params. Over the course of the next couple weeks alk rose a little, pH stayed the same, calcium rose from 300 to 350 and mag went from 1100 to 900.
Vinegar is a carbon-source. Too much of a carbon-source too fast can cause a bacterial bloom and white slime to develop on surfaces. Were your hands wet with vinegar? Can you remember when you started washing your hands with vinegar versus when the white, cloudy water started? If you've stopped with vinegar-hands for more than a week with a running skimmer, then I wouldn't expect your water to stay white and cloudy.No. I was using vinegar to "wash" my hands before putting them in the tank but have since stopped and havent touched the water since the bloom started except to replace filter socks and install the UV and DE filter since they both run in tank and are in the display.
Week and half or so. I did stop the kalk a week ago for a few days but started back up last night.What was the timeframe from when you started dosing Kalk to when the water became white and cloudy? Have you considered stopping the Kalk and raising the Mg to the recommended level?
Once the Mg got below 1250 or so, the additional Kalk may just be precipitating and making your water white and cloudy. I strongly suggest you raise your Mg level asap. Whatever Kalk has already precipitated ( making "new" sand ), I don't think it will re-dissolve into Ca and Alk: that's what a Ca/Rx does using CO2.Week and half or so. I did stop the kalk a week ago for a few days but stayed back yo last night.
This is why I love R2r. So many knowledgeable people!!!!Once the Mg got below 1250 or so, the additional Kalk may just be precipitating and making your water white and cloudy. I strongly suggest you raise your Mg level asap. Whatever Kalk has already precipitated ( making "new" sand ), I don't think it will re-dissolve into Ca and Alk: that's what a Ca/Rx does using CO2.
Getting MG up to 1350-1450ppm I do first, then I test CA and Alk the next day.No doubt its low. Using a Salifert kit. I have some RedSea Foundation C. Should I start dosing it while all this is going on? And if I do, will it help clear the water or will I have perform water changes to get rid of the cloudiness.
Also I started with 8tsp/4g of kalk and when my alk reached 10.3 I backed it off to 6tsp/4g.
My calcium has been rising about 20ppm a week since dosing the kalk, but like I said the mag is bottoming out.
I wish I could understand what you're saying...or even implying.a single test rock forced into compliance is gold for inferring receptivity to options.
effortless, not a whole tank issue, its biomodeling and it works wonders.
for example if we wanted to use methods that arent found in huge work threads, an experimental approach by doing something to a param or the water, we could put the test rock in a paint bucket quick reef with that rock and make that bucket comply as you'd do the whole tank. see how that's better than randomly changing all these params in the tank, avoiding work, having no resource on file to show your ends before you begin? that'd be tragic. that'd be the most common way the masses would select though.
hint: even if you identify that organism down to its unmistakable dna, that still doesnt insert any alternate cure links we can peruse here. the masses get you wrapped up in various stalls, watch out for that. its the cause of 100% of reef tank invasions, keeper hesitation, not biology. that would sound presumptive and rude were it not the direct takeaway from reading any few pages of the rip clean threads.
@Ed olson I have a microscope if you want to bring it by.The original problem very much looks like chrysophytes (golden algae). If you could gain access to a microscope it could be easily confirmed.