milky colored water

Yesterday I come home from hangin with my friends and my tanks doing good. Everything is happy and active. so i go watch tv and do some stuff I come back up into my room and my fish tank is so so cloudy from a white substance. I freaked out immediatly. I couldn't see through one end of the tank to the other it was so cloudy. It looked as if somebody poured a bunch of milk into the tank. I don't have a clue to what happened. It wasn't calcium coming out of solution it wasn't anything harmful at all. While all this took place i looked into the tank and everything appeared to be acting normal all the corals were fully polyped. And by this morning my tank had cleared up. I did all my water tests and everything is perfectly normal. Anyone have an idea of what might have happened?

 

my guess , snails secreting their fertility\reproductive stuff. lol, for a better word. when they do it, looks like a chimney in winter. or have you been dosing alot of calcium recently?

 

ok makes sense my friend mentioned that to me but I wasn't to sure if it was true. I've had the tank for about two years and thats never happened before. Thanks

 

Maby your "Friends" were too happy, nudge, nudge!!

 

Are you suggesting something? Lol
I was going to say a bacteria bloom but if it only lasted a few hrs? Minutes? Then I guess snail idea is better.

 

NO, WHAT KIND OF SICK MINDED FOOL DO YOU THINK I AM!!
:-x

 

I have had snails and urchins release spawn into the water in my tank and there wasn't enough to make the tank go cloudy. I have seen my tank go cloudy for 4-5 hours from my caulerpa going sexual. I have had a couple of bacterial blooms that last anything from 2 days to 5 days when I started carbon dosing about 4 years ago using sugar.