pink coloured waste from the skimmer

[Lutdfie]

as per above topic,

ani bros here xperience the same thing?

after reading some threads in here advocating bout the need of a skimmer.

so bought a cheapo skimmer,donnoe wat brand,since i`m on a tight budget.

30mins after the initial setup everything when on nicely but the waste was a light pinkish in colour.is there something wrong wit my water parameters?

after surverying some lfs i found out dat theirs r usually dark brown on yellowish in colour.

anione can help ease me in this?

[Tanzy]

Pink skimmate? I think I know why.

What are the livestocks in your tank?

Do you use AZNO3?

[Lutdfie]

My 3 feet tank is mostly damsels dominated apart from a fire goby,

a couple of buttons,mushrooms,scallop,carpet anemone and a tube anemone(dats wat the lfs told me).

Wat is AZNO3?Pls pardon my ignorance..

The only thing dat i'm dosing in there are:-

-Nutrafin(Biological supplements)

-Liquify Marine(Liquid food for filter feeders,tube worms and other plankton feeders)

-5-in-1 Coral Food Pro Series Sea Plankton.

Of which only the liquify marine & sea plankton have been used regularly bout once a week.

The Nutrafin were only used during water change;once in two weeks

Hopes this gives u a rough idea....

[trader_best]

could be coralline algae???

[dravan]

coralline algae dun get skimmed out hehe.... do u haf carnation coral?

[bubble_gum]

maebe trace element get skimmed out?? remember when i got my new tank den try2 da skimmer. come out purple skimmate sia

[bum]

some anemones are dyed when they are presented at the LFS.

whats the colour of your anemones?

[bubble_gum]

how do they dye them?

[Lutdfie]

Carpet anemone is green in colour and so was the buttons.

Mushroom is yellow while the tube anemone is pale white.

The only red colour i have in there is the scallop.

Btw is been almost 2 weeks now and still the skimmate is pink.

Fishs and corals are doing find though.....

[Terryz_]

how do they dye them?

Anenome take in water and give out water mah... They add the color in to the water the anenome is in and the anenome take in the colored water and after some time they became dyed... Should be like that...