Yellow water

[Saltyone]

Well for some reason my water is a yellow/brownish yellow...what can i do to remove the coloration..I have heard that carbon does not work so well in SW tanks as it does in FW any ideas???

[Dale W.]

You can use carbon to remove the yellow tinge in SW tanks. Have you been keeping up with your water changes? Do you have a skimmer?

[Saltyone]

Yes i change water every 2 weeks and i have a skimmer

[kreblak]

I know this is a somewhat rediculous question, but is it possible someone urinated in your tank? This happened to me several years ago. A friend who had too much to drink crashed on my sofa, and the next morning the tank (a 20 gallon FW) had a funny smell and a yellow coloration. You can imagine what happened to the fish.

[VoodooChild]

I had the same problem too. Like Boogie said, just skim enough and through in a bag of carbon into a HOB filter. The yellow was gone in a couple of weeks.