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Originally Posted by Brevin Well the brown water seems to have subsided. I'm knocking on wood at this point. It seemed, running the CO2 diffuser underneath my Eheim intake caused brown water. The canister filter is 6mo old, so maybe the concentrated acid caused a leak of silicon into the water? Maybe, the current levels of diatom algae are a result of the silicon tubes? Thoughts? |
I have no experience with free floating diatom algae but your situation sounds an awful lot like Green Water to me. In the initial stages, green water isn't really green at all but has more of a murky cloudy look to the water.
I see you have an Eheim is there any chance that it may get vapor locked during the day when injecting CO2. I had this happen to my Eheim Ecco a coupe of times when I "heavily" injected CO2 into it. It was still very quiet but there was not output at the spray bar. After starting it back up it would make the water very cloudy. Makes me think the bacteria died in the filter due to lack of O2 since the filter was not running.
Also, how often do you clean the filter?