MonkeyMonk86
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My 29 gallon tank was stripped, cleaned, Cloroxed for 2 hrs 49 days ago, to remove snails. I am not using CO2 at the present time.
A week ago, my tank was fully cycled and when I was changing the water I found a white substance on the airline tubing to a sponge filter. ( Both were placed in new after the cloroxing ) Some of it flaked into the water. The rest i removed with paper towels. I only ran the lights 3 hr/day while cycling. I am using an Aquaclear 50 HOB with a sponge intake sock to prevent fish getting sucked into the filter.
I waited until the next day to add my 4 fish and airstone inside a Buddha head. I've been running the lights 6 hr/day and the tank is lightly planted.
Today, one week later, I found the white flaky gunk covering both air hoses. Some flaked off while doing a 33% PWC.
( Back stepping a few months. When I originally had many plants and natural CO2 setup. I would find white gunk on the Co2 tubing and a thick moving white gunk on the outlet where the Co2 joined the diffuser. I was using a Fluval U4 filter)
Weirdly, my pH always goes from 7.4 to 8 - 8.2 just in this tank.
Does anyone know what this white flakey stuff is?
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A week ago, my tank was fully cycled and when I was changing the water I found a white substance on the airline tubing to a sponge filter. ( Both were placed in new after the cloroxing ) Some of it flaked into the water. The rest i removed with paper towels. I only ran the lights 3 hr/day while cycling. I am using an Aquaclear 50 HOB with a sponge intake sock to prevent fish getting sucked into the filter.
I waited until the next day to add my 4 fish and airstone inside a Buddha head. I've been running the lights 6 hr/day and the tank is lightly planted.
Today, one week later, I found the white flaky gunk covering both air hoses. Some flaked off while doing a 33% PWC.
( Back stepping a few months. When I originally had many plants and natural CO2 setup. I would find white gunk on the Co2 tubing and a thick moving white gunk on the outlet where the Co2 joined the diffuser. I was using a Fluval U4 filter)
Weirdly, my pH always goes from 7.4 to 8 - 8.2 just in this tank.
Does anyone know what this white flakey stuff is?
Friend of Bill W.
One day at a time