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12/10/2010, 09:19 PM
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Greenish blue foam in my skimmer
My skimmer is producing a greenish blue foam. The foam starts out as whitish then with in the chamber it's becomes greenish blue.
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12/10/2010, 09:39 PM
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I do have some hair algae? Not sure if it's dying off though.
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12/11/2010, 02:24 PM
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Or a little bloom of single-celled algae in the water column that the skimmer is pulling out. Regardless it isn't anything to be concerned about.
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12/11/2010, 03:33 PM
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In addition to the above possibilities -- are you dosing anything? I remember way back when, I would dose "trace" elements, which was bluish, and my skimmate would have a blue tint to it.
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12/13/2010, 06:27 AM
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if you used any sort of water treatment solution for water that is not ro like tap water the skimmer will pull it out it's udually blue stuff the same thing happened to me when i used town water instead of ro didnt have an ro unit
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