Cloudy 12 GAL?

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  1. Bruce

    Bruce Giant Squid

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    Hello all, ok so i wake up this morning and my tank lights are still off, i go and have some breakfast when i come back my 12 gal nano with humpback turretfish is verty cloudy, it wasnt last night any thoughts? im gona do a water change...but do you think he put his poison in the water or somthing?
     
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    hmmm i am thinking that my calerpa (sp) or...some kind of macro algae started to disinigrade and thats what got the tank cloudy...ugh...but im still not sure

    Edit: i think its a feathered calerpa...whats the best way for it not to disinigrate? lol...do i need more water movement? or...trim it more?
     
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    ok...well now im pretty sure it the calerpa...the water is green and i can see it disinigrating...wow...why is this happening?
     
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    Caulerpa goes "sexual" meaning, it dies off and spreads itself around! You should see it start to pop up all over the tank soon. I releases all it absorbed nutrients when it does that so get ready to do some water changing! That is one reason I prefer the chaetomorpha. You don't really have that problem so much. On thing to help prevent it from happening is to keep the caulerpa lighted 24 hours a day, but it is not 100% effective. :)
     
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    ugh....damm that horny plant lol...EWWW MY HAND WAS IN THE WATER!...ok but its not toxic to the fish or anything right?
     
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    Umm, yes it is toxic to fish and stuff! It releases all the nutrients it had previously removed from your water, and all at one time! Like I said, do some water changes please ;D
     
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    AHHHH!!!! OK WILL DO...erm am i aiming for like a 100%? i have already done about 30% i took the water out put it in the ground :) and then put water fro my 55 gal reef in...how much am i gona want to put in? is it really toxic to fish??? :(
     
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    Well, lets see....if you absorb ammonia and nitrates to live, and then you die, and all that ammonia and nitrate was fixed in your body, where would it go?

    If you did the 30%, check the water parameters tomorrow and see where they are. And of course, watch the animals...they will tell you ! ;D

    It should be fine ;)
     
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    ok i dont want my buddy to die...he seemed fine today but i will do more water change tomarrow :)
     
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    well...bad news...my fish didnt make it through the night...i guess i shoulda changed more water....ugh...i think im gona get rid of these plant...is it safe to be working with this tank now the that fish died? will it release poison...i know that the box fish can do that...:(
     
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