Declare this phenomenon for Fonkie

[Fonkie]

Yesterday i bought a red light for my Jebo 60 liter because the lps told me it will enhance some of my fishes colours - and so it did. This morning when i woke up my tank had a pinkish colour and no lights were on - i put on the white light and my tank was still Pinkish.

Can this be some type of organism in my tank that has a after glow effect of the red light.

I did a water change last night ( water was strongly smelling like chlorine) can it be chlorine that shows the pinkish colour.

Unfortonately i wanted to take pictures but the camera make the water clear.

What can this be

Fonkie

[Vis]

First time I heard this.
Tell a little about the tank,plants etc

[Fonkie]

Well it has silica sand in for substrate and a few anubias. there is 4 mixed malawis 6 corys and 2 yoyo loach - the tank is up and running for 11 months now. There is about zero algea

[azurekoi]

Nope,no idea here either....

You maybe been feeding a new food or something like cheap red flakes/bits....that is the only stuff I know that gives your water that colour...

[shihr]

i dono if i can post this or if u can login anyways, but tyrone on apsa also had a similar problem:

http://www.apsa.co.za/board/index.php?topic=4207.0

[Go-Big]

Well there is something like red algae. Never had it myself.

[tracyp]

I too have experienced pink water. I never did discover why, but it cleared up after a few worried water changes. My water was odourless though.

[riyadh]

Yeah now that you mention it, I think that it is red algae

[TankMaster]

This could be bad.

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TM

[Fonkie]

Thanks for all your contributions so far - keep you up to date

F

[TankMaster]

The "red tide" is a phrase that has been applied to a phenomenon when a planktonic organism (often a dinoflagellate) blooms (http://www.lifeinfreshwater.org.uk/Web%20pages/ponds/Bloom.htm) in huge densities such that the water goes red. In most cases the organism is highly poisonous and soon can obliterate the life in the lake. The poison is a liver toxin but it is unclear why teh dinoflagellate produces this.

LINK (http://www.lifeinfreshwater.org.uk/Web%20pages/ponds/Pollution.htm)

[Fonkie]

Gee Tankmaster i realy hope that is not the case so far all the fishies looks fine - i'll keep an eye on them

[Fonkie]

Last night i cleaned the filter and was suprised to see that when i rinsed the sponges a redish colour was coming out of it. The water is clear now and nothing has died - i think it must be something that absorbed the red light and gave the redish colour.

Afterall this was very weird but it passes and it was harmless.

Case closed