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ericosuave

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Hello, I am new at owning a aquarium and i have a few questions because i dont think im doing things right..

Ok.. i have a 40 gal oceanic stretch hex (i have pics let me know if u wanna see) and i have been puting it through the cycling process for about 1 week now.
I used some sand and water from my brothers tank and sand from a friends tank which have both been up for about 4 months.
I started to get a little bit of red algae on the sand, so i used some chemi-clean to demolish it.. Ever since ive used the chemi-clean my prizm skimmer has had ALOT of foam in it, and has been shooting these micro-bubbles back into my tank and its ugly and there is alot of crap floating ontop of the water (looks like small bubbles and such, some big ones too).

Can someone please help me out, and let me know what i am doing wrong.? Thank you very much!

Did i mention that my tank looked perfect and clear before i used the stupid chemi-clean.
 
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I started to get a little bit of red algae on the sand, so i used some chemi-clean to demolish it.. Ever since ive used the chemi-clean my prizm skimmer has had ALOT of foam in it, and has been shooting these micro-bubbles back into my tank and its ugly and there is alot of crap floating ontop of the water (looks like small bubbles and such, some big ones too).

I'm not sure exactly what is in chemiclean, but apparently it is something that is reacting poorly with the skimmer. This is often seen with water conditioners that have an agent for promoting slime coat regeneration and in antibiotics (which are commonly used to get rid of slime algae. Turn off the skimmer and clean it, get any coating of the product out of the skimmer, do several water changes, then restart the skimmer. Realize the kimmer will need to "break in" again. Luckily it is only a week, could have been near complete when this occurred ;)

Right now during your cycle you shouldn't worry about adding products to your tank that will "destroy" anything, in all likelyhood they will have an adverse effect on your cycle. More than likely you will have to start back at square one.
 
yikes! thanks for the info reefrunner69.. ill be sure to do a water change asap. This saltwater thing is harder than i thought it was gonna be.. 8O
 
Well, being a member of one of these forums is a good start ;) Someone here has been through what your going through or has researched it and is here to help you out ;)
 
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