Hi,
I wanted to share a tiny success that I’ve had with a recurring bacterial bloom.
My tank is about 5 months old, never have had crystal clear water which I’ve been told it’s kind of normal in a new tank. Redsea reefer 170.
Recently after adding more live rock (not sure if it’s related somehow) I started experiencing back to back bacterial blooms. It looked horrible and was pretty frustrating.. I added carbon (it did nothing) but decided I would ride out the bloom. This was going on for a month and a half.
Water changes didn’t help (normal when it comes to BBs).
Anyways the solution that I came across that has helped for anyone going through this was Seachem Clarity. I added 3 bottle caps and about 36 hours later my tank was clearing up and a whole lot of gunk in the filter sock which I’m still changing out every 2 days.
I’ve added a before and after video. The lighting doesn’t give a clear picture of what the tank was going through but I couldn’t even see the power head standing from the front of my tank.
Good luck to anyone going through this same issue and hope this helps someone a bit.
I wanted to share a tiny success that I’ve had with a recurring bacterial bloom.
My tank is about 5 months old, never have had crystal clear water which I’ve been told it’s kind of normal in a new tank. Redsea reefer 170.
Recently after adding more live rock (not sure if it’s related somehow) I started experiencing back to back bacterial blooms. It looked horrible and was pretty frustrating.. I added carbon (it did nothing) but decided I would ride out the bloom. This was going on for a month and a half.
Water changes didn’t help (normal when it comes to BBs).
Anyways the solution that I came across that has helped for anyone going through this was Seachem Clarity. I added 3 bottle caps and about 36 hours later my tank was clearing up and a whole lot of gunk in the filter sock which I’m still changing out every 2 days.
I’ve added a before and after video. The lighting doesn’t give a clear picture of what the tank was going through but I couldn’t even see the power head standing from the front of my tank.
Good luck to anyone going through this same issue and hope this helps someone a bit.