thanks byron,, it was nice of you to notice, i had just done a 80% water change the water was black.. when i went to add carbon to my filter i noticed the pump had stopped working and a really large snail was behind it that a chiclid was trying to eat .. The smell is still in the tank and in my house a bit of a disaster really i have decided that only baby snails are allowed in this tank now..
the info is important to me i still dont get why it,s white ..it said dead bacteria ..and just last week thousands of our fish have died. A real traggedy i live near a man made dam that has bluegreen algae problems this dam feeds our cotton irrigation then into the darling river where the water is white . the fish that died included the adults that were all much larger then a meter long.
i read there is sulfate , silicate , phoshate , nitrate , and carbonate but it,s not the same. Cycles ...
i could go on for hours , i am mostly interested in phosphates and zero nitrate cycles because of high ph and ammonia and this seems to be how the volcanic rift lakes function...