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[slandis3]

I came home this moring and found my tank like this

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[REDPYRO]

are you talking about the slime?

[slandis3]

The water is very milky. I have checked all filters, and the fish and corals i can see and everything looks ok. I will have to recheck after i wake up and the lights are on.

[slandis3]

what looks to be slime is brown algae. i need more snails

[bigfalcon36]

Could be phosphates too, I have the same problem right now in my rubbermaid tub.

I have found that water changes have helped out a lot too.

[REDPYRO]

wait till lights have been on for several hours and then repost a picture of whole tank that would be helpful

[slandis3]

here are some pics with the lights on. Im getting ready to do a water change right now. All fish are heathly and eating good so imm not sure what happend

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[micki]

I wonder if something spawned? 

[slandis3]

I was talking to joel this moring and he thinks it might be a bacteria(spelling?) bloom. I have noticed some of the food in my sump has gone uneaten. I have a chroums in there and i havent had time to get him out. I think i will try and get him out this week.

[Slicktrax]

did your temperature drop by chance?  i have had the cloudy water bacteria bloom and it seems to coincide with me leaving a heater off.  temperature drops about 10 degrees and the water clouds up.

[slandis3]

I have two heater and a chiller at night the tank runs about 77.5 and during the day its about 79.2. The first thing i checked was the heaters and filters. I mad a quick adjustment o my skimmer and it starte to make a ton of wet foam. It has backed off a bunch now.The two things im thinking now are, uneaten food in the sump or like micki said something may have spawned. Ill just have  to wait and see. I am doing a 70g water change hopefully that clears it up a good amount.

[REDPYRO]

i agree with bateria bloom.  water changes will remove it.  do a few the next couple of days

[slandis3]

well idid a 70g water change today and that helped. I think Joel and I figured the root cause. I had a skimmer leak so i had to shut it off while i was at work and re glue is. It was only off for 10hours but i think that was enough. I am haveing problems with my skimmer because i dont have a large enough pump and i need to replace my ball valve with a gate valve. I am going to post som pics of my huge skimmer. Its a loan untill i get the money to make myself one. I thought about just buying a skimmer but I plan on haveing 500+ total gallons of water volume by the time i am finished.

[micki]

You glued it?  Hmmmm, I wonder if it was a reaction to the glue? 

[slandis3]

The glue never touched the water. I still had the skimmer off when this happend. The silicone is on the outside.I went about 2 weeks with my skimmer off when my pump went bad so i never thought about that being the problem

[micki]

Hmmmm, well, I don't know then.  LOL 

How does it look today?

[slandis3]

Its clear as can be. So weired. Im just glad its ok.

[micki]

It sounds like something spawned to me, but what do I know