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Your correct about those. All of those professors were named earlier by the professor I work for and asked for advice.

It does sound weird, I cant think of why this would suddenly happen. The pressure in the filter has been constant for weeks as far as I know, and no rip or puncture was in the bag, I just cleaned it out and looked for one. But even if there was, would that really matter? The water has been...

It must be. It has to be the charcoal. The Lophelia are small, there arent too many of them and this water condition happened in under 12 hrs. The water was crystal and then 10 hrs later it looked like the lights had just gone out. Visibility is like 3-4 inches and its pitch black. Looks like...

What Ive done is remove the filter housing bag, which is intact and all the charcoal from the bag. Ive put in some filter fiber to hopefully absorb some of the cycling dust. It doesnt look like the bag burst open, im flummoxed as to what could of caused this.

I am working at a lab at Penn State where we have a large tank to keep cold water corals. This morning when I came in to feed them the water was black with charcoal dust, almost no visibility at all. Details: About 500 gallon tank/sump A pump (IWAKI Magnet Pump MD-55RLT) pumps water from...