WTF I woke up to this....

[rghering]

Yup, not sure whats going on but I woke up to this..
Nothing seems to be dead or even bothered by it.

Any Ideas???

 

[spstimie]

Are you dosing kalkwasser? Is it a phyto bloom(green) or bacterial(white)? Is a pump stirring something up?

 

[rghering]

I haven't dos'd at all this month waiting on my dosing pumps to show up, its a brownish green cloud, so I was thinking phyto myself. I've shut off my circulation pumps now as well.
Any other ideas on how to get it to clear up?? Other than killing the lights for 3 days..

 

[that0neguy1126]

run carbon. Water change. Have you checked your params yet?

 

[rghering]

I checked params they look ok, nitrates a bit higher than I like but not in jeopardy. Will pickup some carbon today.

 

[Zoalander]

Is that a fresh water yellow tang? Jk yeah I would do a water change, run chemipure

 

[asn-naso]

Just a dumb question, but did you check the temp in your tank?

 

[Royal Gramma keeper]

Do you have any livestock that would or could get angry or bored and muck up with the substrate? probably a dumb question.

 

[rghering]

Temp ranges between 77 and 80 night and day. I do have livestock that mess's with the substrate but never that bad.

BTW tank is getting more and more mucky as the day goes on.. I just did a 40 gallon water change, doesn't look like its done any good. Also just ordered more salt as I found out 40 gallons worth was all I had.. lol..
ordered some chemipure and a bulk of carbon, local stores ( Quality farm and Ranch lol ) only had a small amount of carbon .

 

[kmcmurtry]

That's weird that it happened so suddenly. You had nothing better to do today, right? LOL

 

[Wicked Color]

Lol, spawning event!

 

[DyM]

Do you have a clam? One day mine went nuts and spawned - make the water really murky, ended up changing out a lot of water and running carbon. Took a few days. Also have read about Calerpa micro algae going sexual. Do you have Calerpa?

 

[rghering]

No Clams in the tank. UPDATE: Just had a buddy bring by his test kit, just in case mine was faulty..

Nitrates 0
Nitrites 0
Specific Gravity 1.026
Salinity 36
Temp 79.3
PH 8.4
Ammonia 0
I don't have a phosphate test so can't test that..
Tank looks worst today than yesterday. I was loaned 100 gallons of salt so I'm gona do a massive water change here shortly.

 

[Wicked Color]

Good call on the WC, clams are not the only thing that spawns, many corals are broadcast spawners, and that is what your tank looks like to me (I am no expert), and after such an event you should expect an elevated nutrient load, and maybe some stinky water.

 

[andyrm66]

Are you running an mechanical filteration? Filter sock?

 

[rghering]

No filter socks, no mech filters at all.

BTW after water change looks like I need to do another, its still very cloudy, like it didn't much if any good.

 

[xsocali]

Go get some Kent Marine Pro Clear and use that
and use a filter sock and it will clear up.real fast.
No need for all the water changes.

 

[rghering]

So an update. I 2nd day shipped a bunch of crap to get this done.. *MAN thats costly*

I got some new GFO, Carbon, filtersocks, that Proclear from Kent marine and some mech filter pads. As well as a cheap chineese protein skimmer. And more salt..
Cost with shipping? 200 bucks.

Changed out everything that needed it, put the socks in place, added the filter pads and the skimmer. Mixed some salt in my 55 gallon barrel just in case..

Its now been 3 days and here is my tank now..

WhooHoo.. nearly clear again..but I have some damaged corals, lost 2 turbo snails.. and my RTBA's don't look too well. No fish died.

BTW they are a bitch to get working but the little cheap air driven skimmers on ebay for 37 bucks works ok, but it fills the cup about every 4 hours with water..

Now to go buy a REAL skimmer..

 

[Zooid]

bacterial blooms suck. Good job with the quick save. Are you missing any animals? Cucumber?

 

[rghering]

other than the dead snails, nope everything accounted for. My mushrooms seem to be beat up and like I said the RTBA's don't looks all that great.. Other than that everything is good.