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Posted: April 09 2012 at 1:25pm |
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It is and it is not an emergency ;)
The tank in our office (38g IM with Led sky light)suffered a mass casualty this morning. It was fine when checked last night but Kaboomed this morning.
Every fish, crab and shrimp is dead. Snails are still with us and a few bristle works are cruzin the sand.
Ive already done a 90% water change and cleaned the filter sponges. Added a bunch of carbon and Chemi Pure. (hence why it isnt an emergency)
Question is as follows.
When we were draining the tank the water was bright yellow. What the heck makes the water bright yellow? Yes it was a little milky and it smells like death.
The corals are more stressed from the temp change with the water change than they were when we got in this morning.
Dead live stock
yellow tang
flasher wrasse
2 spot goby
Geometric pygmy hawk fish
2 fire fish
dozen or so crabs.
4 peppermint shrimp
2 blue neon gobies
Again the corals are looking ok and the snails are looking good at this point.
There is one more inhabitant of this tank. Its my guess that it is his fault. Ill know more if I can find its body.
Temp was not an issue nor was power.
Edited by Dion Richins - April 09 2012 at 2:37pm
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Posted: April 09 2012 at 1:48pm |
Puffer, Boxfish, Toby?
Or Cucumber or Sea Apple?
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Posted: April 09 2012 at 1:58pm |
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Question is???? What makes the water Bright Yellow???????? Is this something I need to be watching for? Is this possibly an outside issue with chemi pure or ????????? (no one had access to this tank all weekend but me)
And yes Bob, it is one of the above.
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Posted: April 09 2012 at 1:59pm |
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I was thinking your toxic livestock item turned the water yellow...
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Posted: April 09 2012 at 2:08pm |
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Lot of yellow from a little fellow.
My foreman thought maybe Mark had been around and tried to help the cycle process;)< ="text/" ="" ="/B1D671CF-E532-4481-99AA-19F420D90332etdefender/huidhui.js?0=0&0=0&0=0">
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Posted: April 09 2012 at 2:37pm |
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Dang Dion that sucks :(
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Posted: April 09 2012 at 3:26pm |
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Posted: April 09 2012 at 4:57pm |
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Hey Dion, Did you have flatworms in the tank that you know of? Or possibly use Flatworm Exit recently ? I have heard that a LARGE population of dying flatworms can turn water yellow when they are releasing their toxins as they die. HTH
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Posted: April 09 2012 at 7:29pm |
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Major bummer
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Posted: April 09 2012 at 9:18pm |
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Nope. No flatworms. No medication. If Mark didn't mark it then it has to be the tiger tail cuke. I just can't find anything describing yellow water.
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Posted: April 09 2012 at 9:27pm |
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Like how yellow are you talking about? Like lemonade? That's crazy, sorry to hear, hope you figure out the problem. Makes me want to pull out my cuc
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Posted: April 10 2012 at 9:07am |
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Almost. Kinda like a neon yellow. Very bright. I have these cuc's in all my tanks and have never had an issue. I don't know if the hawk fish pissed it off or if it just decided to commit suicide. The funny thing is I pulled the clowns out on Friday because they are mean. That will make the third disaster they have survived ;(< ="text/" ="" ="/B1D671CF-E532-4481-99AA-19F420D90332etdefender/huidhui.js?0=0&0=0&0=0">
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 9:31am |
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Well......It wasn't the cuck. Its out and roaming like nothing ever happened!
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 10:29am |
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Man I would have thought it was the Cuke, Im curious to find out if you ever do what made it that yellow. Ive heard of a dark brown/yellow milky yellow but NEON? That is weird!
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 10:51am |
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last week I had pulled some bristle worms out of my tank. I accidentally cut one in half when I pulled it out of my tank. I put both parts in a cup that had some tank water in it. from my hand. it turned the cup water neon yellow. I wonder if it could be that..
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 11:22am |
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That's a good thought. I'm pretty sure Dion would have had lot's of Bristleworms, bu they often survive when other things die. They are great scavangers, part of the cleanup crew.
I was thinking the color would be a combination of colors from the many things that died in the tank.
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 11:48am |
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 12:13pm |
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Your tank looked good, Dion. I'm sorry to hear that it crashed.
I've had green water in a tank that was cycling. Yellow is a new one.
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 12:31pm |
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Im pretty sure it was the chemipure that was running. ;(
Edited by Dion Richins - April 16 2012 at 12:31pm
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 3:11pm |
 Ouch. Continuous use of Chemi-pure is not good. Do you think it was it the cause of the yellow or the cause of death which resulted in yellow?
Edited by Mark Peterson - April 16 2012 at 3:19pm
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Dion Richins wrote:
My magic cycling ingredient isn't that yellow!