Well first of all I'd like to thank everyone who jumped in to offer advice and ideas on the white residue I was noticing in my water and collecting on everything in my tank.
I have discovered the reson for the residue. It was caused from the following:
1. My own inability to keep my hands out of the tank. I had been in the tank for about 5 days straight either rearranging things, cleaning algae off the
crushed coral or just general monkeying around.
2. My powerheads picked up debris that was under the UGF and blew it throughout the tank.
3. I must not have cleaned the crushed coral nearly as well as I thought I had.
4. An acute bout of paranoia on my part. :-)
I dedided to just leave the tank be and not fiddle with it for the better part of a week and there is a noticible drop in the amount of cluodiness in my water and the residue is going away.
I also noticed that my 2 flame scallions really helped clear the water as they are filter feeders. They seemed to have collected the "dust", balled it up and expelled it. I concluded this due to the fact that some rather large globs of white gunk (technical term)is coming out of the scallions. Could the scallions be a natural tyoe of protien filter?? Please don't flame me...I'm just musing now.
One thing I need advice on....My
Banded coral shrimp has just molted. Should I remove the old carapace, or just leave it in the tank to decompose?
Thanks again everyone for your advice and help!! You are all a blessing for us "newbie" reffers...
