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post #1 of 11
1/27/12 at 10:53pm
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Today I replaced my uv fixture (warranty finally pulled through) and the cursed thing stirred up everything in my sump making my tank to cloud for hours.. after about three hours, it started tk clear up and guess what... its dirty... it looks like 10000 ft under the sea with debrees everywhere, making everything white. its two in the morning and I don't feel like taking out every rock to brush them. Any tips on taking care of this mess?
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post #2 of 11
1/27/12 at 11:59pm
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Originally Posted by Siptang View Post

Today I replaced my uv fixture (warranty finally pulled through) and the cursed thing stirred up everything in my sump making my tank to cloud for hours.. after about three hours, it started tk clear up and guess what... its dirty... it looks like 10000 ft under the sea with debrees everywhere, making everything white. its two in the morning and I don't feel like taking out every rock to brush them. Any tips on taking care of this mess?


Blow it off the rock and do a large water change. That's the easiest way. It might take more than one water change. I'd also run some poly filter pad and new filter socks on the overflow drains. That should help. Just keep an eye on your parameters that it didn't stir up too much and cause a spike in anything. Run some extra carbon just to be safe. If parameters are okay, go to sleep and deal with it tomorrow, LOL

 

Might be time to clean that sump (if the UV pump didn't just do that for you! My UV pump did the same thing and it was fine after a few water changes.

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post #3 of 11
1/28/12 at 3:55pm
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Sigh... no avoiding it i guess... wife called and complained how crappy my tank was looking now. :/

 

Gotta do it even when you are feeling crappy.

Getting ready for some manual labor as soon as I get off work around 8:40pm.

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post #4 of 11
1/28/12 at 4:57pm

Lol. Least you don't do manual labor for 8-12 hours a day and then got to go home for a 50% water change. (assuming you don't have a manual labor job!) 

 

I hope it cleans up for yah and things get bak in check. 

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post #5 of 11
1/28/12 at 5:06pm
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Lol. Least you don't do manual labor for 8-12 hours a day and then got to go home for a 50% water change. (assuming you don't have a manual labor job!) 

 

I hope it cleans up for yah and things get bak in check. 


Keeping SW fish as far as I am concerned is not manual labor its "labor of love" 
 

 

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post #6 of 11
1/28/12 at 9:58pm
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Sigh... no avoiding it i guess... wife called and complained how crappy my tank was looking now. :/

Gotta do it even when you are feeling crappy.
Getting ready for some manual labor as soon as I get off work around 8:40pm.

if she dont like it...she can clean it. my wife doesnt complain about the tanks anymore.....had a similar experience with a seahorse tank once.......she complained. next day...i transferred everything to a hospital tank un awares to her and completely drained the tank...when she saw it next day i told her the tank wont look dirty anymore. she no longer complains. i showed her the hospital tank in the den and put ev erything back. now only get asked if we can add certain things.

darth (gotta train your women) Tang
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post #7 of 11
1/28/12 at 11:04pm
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You speak wisely darth lol.

Its 2 in the morning and I'm now done.. I cleaned everything although it doesnt look 100% of what it used to be. Hopefully the new urchin will do fhe trick.
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post #8 of 11
1/29/12 at 6:38am

I set up an in tank refugium last week in the seahorse tank...it did exactly what you disscribe...everything looked dirty after the sand settled. I didn't do anything, I was going to get to it on the weekend with a turkey baster, but after about 3 days the power heads and critter movement cleared everything up. I only have rock and macro algae in that tank, no coral.

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post #9 of 11
1/29/12 at 7:59am

 Interesting, I've never heard of a UV pump before...

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post #10 of 11
1/30/12 at 8:59am
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Some uv sterilizers need external pump to put the water through the enclosure and in my case the pump was very strong that it blew everything.. .

 

So I cleaned EVERYTHING but the clam is unhappy. Clam that used to open 20 hours a day is shelled up and will only open briefly. I'm fairly upset...

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post #11 of 11
1/30/12 at 11:23am

Yup, mine has a pump that pushes it through. 

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