Help please!

chris88 · 04/01/2009, 12:21 PM

Help me please! I have had 1000's of small white sponges growing in my sump and probably all through my overflow and return lines. The problem is that over the past few days the sponges have literally been melting and turning into a white slime. The slime is clogging up my skimmer, reducing the flow in my overflow, and sliming up my filters. The corals, fish, and inverts are all fine and the water quality and clarity in my display tank is normal. The only thing that I have changed in the past few weeks was an increase in my calcium dosing because my corals have been using it up so rapidly. I dose with aragamilk and kalk.

What would cause these sponges to all of the sudden go from rapidly increase to all dying off at once. Will it affect my water and what can I do about all of this?

rob.holbrook · 04/01/2009, 12:35 PM

So your tank has sponges in it and your ______ is using calcium

what is a lawn gnome

chris88 · 04/01/2009, 12:40 PM

lol i dont even know how that got in there.

my calcium is about 380. the problem isnt that i have sponges, it is that they are rapidly melting away and screwing everything up. there were 1000's of them and now they are all dying and clogging everything up.

mustang51js · 04/01/2009, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by rob.holbrook
So your tank has sponges in it and your ______ is using calcium

what is a lawn gnome

it the joke the site has been doing for april fools day, i just noticed my personal info says the same lol

chris88 · 04/01/2009, 04:57 PM

anyone else with a suggestion with what may be happening?

rendogg · 04/01/2009, 05:47 PM

Perhaps the Aragamilk is interfering with the sponges ability to filter/suffocating it? Or maybe you are overshooting your ph with kalk. Which additive is the new one?

chris88 · 04/01/2009, 07:45 PM

very good points and i think both may be the cause. the aragmilk does cloud the tank and probably inteferes with the sponges. i dont monitor my pH and there is probably a chance i am causing it to swing. the corals and fish dont seem to be effected by any of this.

The kalk is the newest addition. and to be completly hounest i have dosed half tsp's in a cup of salt water all at once a few times.

rendogg · 04/01/2009, 08:44 PM

He,he, that would do it.

Stabilize the tank, SLOWLY drip kalk mixed in FRESHWATER (the primary culprit IMO), and the sponges should bounce back.

04/01/2009, 12:21 PM	#1
chris88 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Alberta (canada) Posts: 657	Help please! Help me please! I have had 1000's of small white sponges growing in my sump and probably all through my overflow and return lines. The problem is that over the past few days the sponges have literally been melting and turning into a white slime. The slime is clogging up my skimmer, reducing the flow in my overflow, and sliming up my filters. The corals, fish, and inverts are all fine and the water quality and clarity in my display tank is normal. The only thing that I have changed in the past few weeks was an increase in my calcium dosing because my corals have been using it up so rapidly. I dose with aragamilk and kalk. What would cause these sponges to all of the sudden go from rapidly increase to all dying off at once. Will it affect my water and what can I do about all of this?

04/01/2009, 08:44 PM	#8
rendogg Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Abbotsford, B.C. Posts: 578	He,he, that would do it. Stabilize the tank, SLOWLY drip kalk mixed in FRESHWATER (the primary culprit IMO), and the sponges should bounce back. Last edited by rendogg; 04/01/2009 at 08:53 PM.

04/01/2009, 12:35 PM	#2
rob.holbrook Registered Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 604	So your tank has sponges in it and your ______ is using calcium what is a lawn gnome

04/01/2009, 12:40 PM	#3
chris88 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Alberta (canada) Posts: 657	lol i dont even know how that got in there. my calcium is about 380. the problem isnt that i have sponges, it is that they are rapidly melting away and screwing everything up. there were 1000's of them and now they are all dying and clogging everything up.

04/01/2009, 04:57 PM	#5
chris88 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Alberta (canada) Posts: 657	anyone else with a suggestion with what may be happening?

04/01/2009, 05:47 PM	#6
rendogg Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Abbotsford, B.C. Posts: 578	Perhaps the Aragamilk is interfering with the sponges ability to filter/suffocating it? Or maybe you are overshooting your ph with kalk. Which additive is the new one?

04/01/2009, 07:45 PM	#7
chris88 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Alberta (canada) Posts: 657	very good points and i think both may be the cause. the aragmilk does cloud the tank and probably inteferes with the sponges. i dont monitor my pH and there is probably a chance i am causing it to swing. the corals and fish dont seem to be effected by any of this. The kalk is the newest addition. and to be completly hounest i have dosed half tsp's in a cup of salt water all at once a few times.