Newbie aquarium question

One more thing I forgot to mention: The aquarium has 2 2x65w compact
fluorescent lights that are blue and white. I alternate them during the
day to simulate morning/day/evening and turned lights off in the night.


Also, last night I added some B-IONIC calcium (both No1 and No2) to
improve the calcium level for the live rocks. Would this have anythign
to do with the yellow stuff? Or is it just a coincidence?

wrote:
Yes I have a 24x7 protein skimmer and the first 2 days it collects some
dark green junk water in it that I poured down the toilet.

I paniclly changed water 100% last week but today the yellow tint stuff
came back! The live rocks are now covered with some yellow stuff that I
don't know the name.

Is this all normal? This time I didnt do water change but use some
bathtissue to wipe the yellow tint off the acrylic. It is better than
last week but I am still worried. Is this normal? The substrate are
covered with brown stuff too.

Thanks!


TheRock wrote:
Your tank is cycling...if you're seriously going to get into this hobby
one thing you need to learn up front is patience. Nothing happens
overnight.

You rock takes months to cure. You should not have changed your water at
all yet.
Do you have a protein skimmer ? While you're curing rock you should be
running a
protein skimmer 24/7 7 days a week. Smells good I bet : )


wrote in message
ups.com...
I just bought a 25gallon aquarium about a week ago and put the substate
and live rock in it. I haven't put coral and fish in and today I
suddenly found the water turned yellow!

I have pumps (Rio 800) running and using Biological filter calls.. What
do you guys think the problem come from? I changed water (about 60%
change) today but still feel water is yellow. What do you think? Shall
I do a complete water change?

Thanks!