Cloudy water???

[Anonymous]

Has my Ca precipitated? It looks like someone added a half gallon of milk to my tank. I do drip kalkwasser and I think I may have made this batch too strong. At first I thought the tank was crashing. So I did a massive water change (I needed one anyway) and the tank was cloudy afterwards anyway. All tests look good and the fish and corals are all out. The skimmer is pulling out white foam like when you add southdown for a DSB. That's what got me thinking my Ca was precipitating.

What should I do?

Wait it out?

 

[SnowManSnow]

I've had that happen before only to find that my snails were spawning. Hey, its a possibility

B

 

[Anonymous]

I do have a good amount of snails. But I have seen them spawn in the past and it was nothing like this.

 

[Anonymous]

I also wanted to add that I also have a small amount of caulerpa that has NOT gone sexual.

 

[polcat]

If you did in fact have a calcium "snowstorm" no amount of water change will stop the precipitation. Once it starts it goes to completion, adding more water only furthers it. So, it's milky or do you actually see particles falling like snow? Did you let the kalk settle out completely before adding it? Is there white precip forming on rocks etc? If your water tested out OK after the event it wasn't the dreaded snowstorm, more than likely some excess kalk falling out of solution...I guess you wait it out, run carbon. Good luck hope it clears up for you.

 

[Anonymous]

If the water is much clearer in the morning, then I would try killingthe lights for a couple of days.

 

[Anonymous]

No snow when I noticed it. However, it is begining to clear up. None on the rocks. But the skimmer is pulling a lot of white crap out. Looks like the excess removed when adding new sand.

Thanks for the replies.