earthboy17
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Hey everyone.
So, as the subject line says, my water looks like Mountain Dew.
I was out of town for the long weekend, and came back and probably over-fed a little bit (I say this up front as it is the only idea I have for what could be wrong). My NaCLH20 is from Aquarium Concepts NSW, and my top-off is RO from AAF.
So I overfed a little on Friday and then again on Monday (but not ridiculously over).
But I noticed on Tuesday morning that my water looked cloudy. I had a yellowish buildup on the glass that I guessed to be some kind of algae? It looked like sulfur.
I got back from work on Tuesday night and the water still had that cloudy look. I shined a flashlight down from the top and you could tell there's some kind of particulate in the water--it's not just on the glass.
I scrubbed the glass and did a ~25% water change.
This morning it looks the same and I did another ~25% water change.
The water in the bucket looks like it would look if you had a 5g bucket of flat Mountain Dew. It's really really yellow. Weird!
I did tests and found the following:
PH ~8.0
Ammonia 0? (Less than .25)
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5-10
All in all I think those numbers are okay, maybe not perfect, but not way way off.
Furthermore, the corals & anemone seem to look okay (not stressed anyway), so... what the heck is going on? Anyone seen this "Mountain-Dew-itis" before? Some kind of algae outbreak? A "Yellow-tide"? (which does sound like a new mountain dew flavor...)
Thanks for the help!
Tom
So, as the subject line says, my water looks like Mountain Dew.
I was out of town for the long weekend, and came back and probably over-fed a little bit (I say this up front as it is the only idea I have for what could be wrong). My NaCLH20 is from Aquarium Concepts NSW, and my top-off is RO from AAF.
So I overfed a little on Friday and then again on Monday (but not ridiculously over).
But I noticed on Tuesday morning that my water looked cloudy. I had a yellowish buildup on the glass that I guessed to be some kind of algae? It looked like sulfur.
I got back from work on Tuesday night and the water still had that cloudy look. I shined a flashlight down from the top and you could tell there's some kind of particulate in the water--it's not just on the glass.
I scrubbed the glass and did a ~25% water change.
This morning it looks the same and I did another ~25% water change.
The water in the bucket looks like it would look if you had a 5g bucket of flat Mountain Dew. It's really really yellow. Weird!
I did tests and found the following:
PH ~8.0
Ammonia 0? (Less than .25)
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5-10
All in all I think those numbers are okay, maybe not perfect, but not way way off.
Furthermore, the corals & anemone seem to look okay (not stressed anyway), so... what the heck is going on? Anyone seen this "Mountain-Dew-itis" before? Some kind of algae outbreak? A "Yellow-tide"? (which does sound like a new mountain dew flavor...)
Thanks for the help!
Tom