bacteria bloom

  1. mcdrichj

    Need some help I have a bad bacteria bloom

    So here is the background. I have a 40g that I setup and was cycled in January. Brought 3 fish from my old setup 2 clowns and Banggai cardinal (no LR or media fresh start). One of the clowns died due to stress I think (both clown were 12 years old). I let the tank stabilize about 2 months until...
  2. KA3RE_K9

    Bacteria bloom?

    Hi all, I've recently been dealing with what my local fish store ID'd as a bacterial bloom. It's taking over the highest rock in my 25g waterbox. It's noticeably worse on the one rock that wasn't live when I started the tank. They recommended trying a dose of hydrogen peroxide and then...
  3. B

    Cloudy Water

    Hey everyone, put water in the tank and then added Red Sea blue bucket salt last week. I added the salt to a temp a little higher than what it recommends, and now my tank is cloudy. It hasn’t cleared up in about a week and a half and I was wondering why is that? I have my 2 wavemakers running at...
  4. B

    White hair looking stuff on my rocks and grows on inverts

    I have had this white hair looking stuff for as long as I can remember that wont go away. Ive researched multiple times and ive always though it was a bacterial bloom but im really not sure. My alk/dkh is the only thing that is low but ive raised it up to 2.9/8.1 since i need to go slowly but...
  5. F

    Milky

    Tank has been cloudy like this for almost a week now. Coral and fish seem to be doing fine I have my power head and return aimed at the surface for more disturbance. Just seems to not be clearing up. 20g aio, included filter sock with cut up filter floss in it changed out every couple days. Not...
  6. T

    Can you guys help me identify what this fuzzy stuff is and what steps I should take next if any?

    I started up a 15gallon reef a few months ago and have found every inch of my rock is covered in this fuzzy growth. It’s over a good portion of my back wall and my algae scraper too. I’ve been using saltwater from the fish store and topping off with RODI. Only things in the tank are two...
  7. P

    Bacteria or Copepod Bloom?

    Need some of your guys input whether I’m going through a Copepod, Bacterial Bloom or Both or I’m looking into this to much. A little insight what lead to this…. 12 Gallon Tank running 3 months in a couple of days. Ran fishless cycle from the start with distilled water gradually added RO water...
  8. A

    Werid white algae?

    Hi all, over the last couple days ive had this werid white algae form. its slimy to the touch and easy wipes off. My water peramiters are all within the good zones apart from a nitrite spike. it was zero now its around 2 - 4ppm it fluctuates over the last week. My bimedia just wasnt enough so...
  9. T

    HELP!! Bacteria bloom!

    SO ill start with what equipment i have. Biocube 16 deleted lid Ai Prime 16 HD Jabao OW-10 Random protein skimmer from an old tank. Bought it off of facebook but i have it fit (Tight fit) in the first chamber. 10lb bag of carrib sea live sand. Live rock was from my old tank that I just let dry...
  10. Z

    Hello BACTERIA BLOOM???

    I have been experiencing a wild bacteria bloom in my 3.4 nano. I’ve done 25% water changes and all. Even did a 75% the other day and it just gets worse.. phosphate is 0.1 ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0 nitrate:5 I’ve cut down extremely on food to almost starving my CUC and fish. I’ve kept my pump...
  11. S

    Woke up to extremely cloudy water

    So i have a 32 gallon biocube which has been running smoothly for over a year now. The only filtration i run is a bag of chemipure blue under some intank filter floss, that along with weekly 5 gallon water changes have been enough to keep the tank stable. I woke up today and freaked out at the...
  12. 1Matthew

    Preventing An Outbreak: Concerns

    Hello all! I recently just tore down my 90 gallon tank and placed every surviving peace of coral in my 55 gallon tank in my other room. I posted a thread earlier on it and everything level-wise looked really well. No swings, levels in check and stable, did an icp test which came back with...
  13. hexcolor reef

    Bubbles Suds at top of tank

    Am I dealing with some sort of bacterial issue in my water? I’m getting foam bubbles at top of tank. Water temps has been 80F. I’m running a UV Sterilizer 24/7. my Acans / micromussas seem to bubble up when lights out. The polyps aren’t close to skeleton with feeders out like normal. Instead...
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    • Forum: Reef Aquarium Discussion
  14. F

    New Tank Ugly Phase, Any Action Necessary?

    Hey all, I've got a 25 lagoon thats been running for bout 6 weeks now. 2 small clowns, 1 royal gramma, cleaner shrimp, 6 snails 2 hermits. Can someone diagnose whats all over my glass and substrate? It's not bothering the zoas but my gsp isn't opening at all and my golden glove polyp isnt too...
  15. E

    EMERGENCY All my fish have died!

    So this morning I woke up to all of my fish laying on the substrate unalived. I have recently been having a nitrate and phosphate spike and have been dosing accordingly to get these numbers down, which have been coming down slowly. Obviously, this means that algae in my tank is RIFE and so to...
  16. Salty_Northerner

    Video and pictures WHAT is this?

    So I'm dealing with dinos. What are these and how to I rid them? Also there's got to be a pod of some sort and some thin things. Help to id these please.
  17. J

    Pink snot all over sump

    I have a pink slime on my power heads and everywhere in my sump. My carbon/gfo reactor was completely clogged and my skimmer is making super thick skimmate that is coming out of the holes in the collection cup. It looks like it’s out if Ghostbusters 2. Im guessing its bacterial. It did treat my...
  18. L

    Bacteria Bloom (?)

    Hi, Noob here again My water is slowly starting to get cloudy? I just want to make sure everything is fine from the community When I turn off the flow a lot of the bigger white specs move and twich, but there are a lot a lot of white smaller particles that are starting to turn up. Any idea on...
  19. wncnewbie

    Using Topfin Freshwater for ATO ok?

    So I found this at petsmart and is closer than LFS an hour away to get water. I’ve been using to supply my ATO for about a month and I notice a bacterial bloom and possible infection in fish. Is this ok to be using in place of RODI water.
  20. M

    EMERGENCY what am i doing wrong?

    Hey guys, I have a 10g tank and every time I do a water change my water gets cloudy! I don’t understand. It’s going to be barely a month (next week) that I have this tank up and running with livestock. All of my water parameters are fine. Ammonia-0 Nitrite-0 Nitrate-0 Ph-8.0 My tank has been...
  21. b0bburg3r

    None stop bacterial bloom 5 weeks long

    Hello I hate to ask for help. After some time I finally realized my fish were breathing heavy from a bacterial bloom. To save the fish I would change the water. Then it would come back. Three fish stores testing my water, with me testing daily I can’t figure it out. Here is a picture before and...
  22. SaltyShel

    Bacteria bloom?

    [Little bit of info/background]: I had this 16g tank running, empty, for months. It never had lights on, only sunlight, and I thought it was cycled based on the ammonia/nitrate being none or low. A couple weeks ago my poor clown was dying and I tried to save him, so I put him in this tank (the...
  23. darkwaterperformance

    Coraline algae die off!! Help?

    Hello, I need some answers please. I setup a fluval 13.5 evo with live rock live sand and a bottle of dr Tim’s 5 weeks ago but I think I left the live rock in the open air for too long while setting up aqua scape and had some coraline algae die off chipping off and floating. My question is, does...
  24. N

    We got bacteria bloomin' and RIP Hermit crab

    I just got my first ever reef tank and it's been amazing. I have had the tank about 3 weeks to a month now. It (now) has two hermit crabs, 5 snails,two damsels and one small polyp of a green star polyp. All doing well minus the recent hermit crab dying. I have two questions: 1. Should I do...
  25. G

    Im in a battle right now and I need your help!

    After being successful with a FOWL tank I decided to take it a level higher and make it a reef tank. I started with KENT MARINE NANO CORAL A AND B and VIPRASPECTRA 165W I dosed accordingly and only once since starting this tank, I want to say a month ago. Im currently still using Instant ocean...
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