Green Water Column

[Delphinus]

Ummm ... one obvious thing that I completely overlooked here.

AJ_77, you stated that you have checked your caulerpa and are certain that there are no clear or white pieces.

But ... halimeda is also not immune to the occasional sporalation. Have you checked all your halimeda as well?

Re-reading this thread from top to bottom, I humbly take back my original assertion, and am joining the sporalation bandwagon. I originally thought you only had a little bit of green hue in the water.

Whatever it is though, the advice you've been given applies either way, it's all good.

PS. Yeah, the thought did occur to me too that you may have an skimmer that's unable to keep up with the DOC in that tank, but, I didn't want to mention it because, well, a) if it is true then I'm sure you already know about it and b) I don't really know what I'm talking about anyways. Is there such a thing as "inadequate skimmer" ? Maybe just "ineffectual in certain situations." Some people go skimmerless altogether, and that's fine and well if you maintain everything else impeccably, and some people use a monstrous beckett skimmer on a 20g with 200x turnover. So who's right? Ah, to heck with it all, this is going nowhere, I will stop typing now.

[ 13 June 2002, 13:46: Message edited by: delphinus ]