Cloudy 90g tank

flower

flower

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I have low calcium and have been dosing the tank with liquid calcium 2Xs a week to bring it up. Well this morning I noticed I had some purple up..not enough to dose the tank proper but a little maybe a cap and a half full. I shook the bottle and poured the remainder of the bottle into my sump. My tank is now very cloudy. The purple up was old (over a year) and in the very bottom of the bottle I noticed a hard chunk of whatever was in the bottle not disolved.
The fish and inverts seem fine, I can't take a picture because my camera battery is too low AAGG I hate when that happens. It is already trying to clear up as I type this out. Anyone ever have purple up cloud a tank before?
 
flower

flower

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gemmy http:///forum/thread/385472/cloudy-90g-tank#post_3380631
I only used a teeny bit once. It was not enough to cloud my tank.
This was not a new bottle of it. It was old and only had a bit left in it. I had used it a long time ago and it never clouded the tank, I think its the gunk on the bottom that caused the problem...BIG SIGH, I think I will do a water change a little early. I just did one last week on the 90g. I had hopes of doing the SH tank on one week and the 90g the next to ease the work load.
The 90g has been neglected, it had high nitrates from not doing WCs (I thought I had to break it down) and so didn't take care of it. My friend gave me plenty of salt for water changes so I could keep it, so I was going to do bi-weekly changes to get the NO3 under control and the water quality back up to snuff.
 
nikesb

nikesb

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its probably because of a greater concentration at the bottom of the bottle. it probably just raised your calcium and swung your dkh a bit, but you should be fine. consider seperate two parts in the future for dosing though. its much much cheaper
 
geoj

geoj

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I think you will be fine and by now it has likely cleared up, I would test alk and calcium just to see where you are now...
 
flower

flower

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Quote:
Originally Posted by nikeSB http:///forum/thread/385472/cloudy-90g-tank#post_3380800
its probably because of a greater concentration at the bottom of the bottle. it probably just raised your calcium and swung your dkh a bit, but you should be fine. consider seperate two parts in the future for dosing though. its much much cheaper
I was do so, but then noticed the purple up and decided stupidly to use that up to get it off the shelf.

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Originally Posted by GeoJ http:///forum/thread/385472/cloudy-90g-tank#post_3380912
I think you will be fine and by now it has likely cleared up, I would test alk and calcium just to see where you are now...
It has indeed cleared up...Thanks for the advice, I will go check both right now. I have my RO water ready for some new salt mix to do a change...I will post results.
 
flower

flower

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UPDATE:
All is well..but still fighting nitrates, I have a phosphate reading as well (tank was neglected) Water for another change is almost ready. Last water change was the 24th of April
90g Tank
Equipment and tank stuff:
Acrylic51s design and creation...24g sump with the help of Al&Burke for the 18g refugium (no Macros)
I'm still super happy, just so you know!
Octopus 1000sss Protein skimmer
Live sand in tank and refugium
70 to 85lbs of Live rock (best guess)
2 Large Koralia Power heads
400w Titanium heater (in sump)
2 X175w MH One side has a short in it with 2 X 96w Actinic (Coralife Elite)
CPR overflow w/lifter pump
Ehiem 3000 return pump
Fantastic Corey Gizmo return thingy
2Quills creation...see my BIG smile!
PH- 8.2 was 8.0
Alk/KH- 12 was 8
Cal- 400 was 360
No3- 20 was up to 40
Po4- 0.5 was 0
SG-1.026 ....Steady
TEMP - 78 ..Steady
All fish and corals seem healthy and happy..inverts look okay..NO algae except coraline
STOCK LIST
CORAL:
Only 1 small bubble coral
Large GSP colony
Blue mushrooms
Green stripe mushrooms
(Lights are not working well, all possible corals that could go in SH tank are transferred)
FISH:
1 Blue Hippo Tang
1 Blue Spotted Kole tang
1 Orchid Dottyback
2 Perc Clowns
1 Lemonpeel dwarf Angelfish
INVERTS:
2 serpent stars
65 assorted snails
3 or maybe 6 hermit crabs
1 Cleaner shrimp
1 Fire shrimp
 
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