What else can I do?

[burgerchow]

Originally Posted by reefwars

that will work just fine , check in on the fishes at night and they are good without food for a week if need be

jusdge the length of time by how your tank looks if the livestock are doing good then the longer in the dark the better the chances.


like daniella said look into raising your ph and keeping it raised

good luck man i know your pain

Raise your magnesium as well. Bring it as high as you can ( without hurting inhabitants,) pitch black tank for 4-5 days, then do a massive water change once you take off the cover. You'll need to suck up all the dead snots.

[coolhandgoose]

My mag is 1400 right now already. What is a safe level to bring it to?

[coolhandgoose]

I just did the 20% water change and turned down my skimmer so it might actually start skimming something. Haven't added the carbon yet and keeping the gfo reactor off for now as well.

I noticed yesterday the table cover was leaking a tan colour light through so I put a couple blankets on top and its now black.

Three more days and ill take the cover off and see the results. Hopefully it goes away for a while so I can enjoy my tank.

[coolhandgoose]

Day 3 now.

Do you think it'd be okay to turn half my lights on for like 20 minutes to feed the fish? Feeling guilty about having a totally black tank.

[coolhandgoose]

Today is day 5 of black out.

I took the cover off this morning and ran half the bulbs for about 45 minutes. Hopefully that doesn't screw everything up.

I did not notice any brown stringy crap, which is good but ill do the one more day of black out to be sure.

I fed my fish and my maxi mini.

I cleaned a power head.

I removed a netting that I installed at the overflow to prevent my peppermint shrimp at the time from getting sucked down. The netting I think did more harm than good since detritus and other gunk would just collect on the screen.

I noticed my skimmer hasn't produced anything in the last few days. I'm thinking my water is really clean right now from the previous water change and not feeding anything. Lots of bubbles in the skimmer, just no foam at the top being produced.

[burgerchow]

So you see the slime with snotty bubbles anymore? I would probably do another water change after you take the cover off.

[coolhandgoose]

Originally Posted by burgerchow

So you see the slime with snotty bubbles anymore? I would probably do another water change after you take the cover off.

I did not see any brown snotty stuff. Mind you it usually came out after the lights have been on for a bit.

I have water already mixed up for a water change tomorrow.

Tomorrow will be the big reveal! Lights will be on and hopefully no reappearance of the evil brown crap.