ElleDee
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So I had a 36 hour power outage that I was caught unprepared for. I will spare the play by play, but the power is back on, filters are running, livestock is alive, and the water temperature is almost back to target after a 15-ish degrees F swing over that period, handled as gradually as possible.
There is some explainable weirdness in the tanks (lots of horny shrimp!) but one big mystery: my TDS shot up from about 200 to over 300 in every tank. What on earth?? There's no detectable ammonia and the TDS of my source water is the same as always. Anyone have any experience with this? I'm going to do more water changes as I get time, but I have no idea what the cause is or if there's something else I should be doing.
There is some explainable weirdness in the tanks (lots of horny shrimp!) but one big mystery: my TDS shot up from about 200 to over 300 in every tank. What on earth?? There's no detectable ammonia and the TDS of my source water is the same as always. Anyone have any experience with this? I'm going to do more water changes as I get time, but I have no idea what the cause is or if there's something else I should be doing.