bacterial bloom

Hello to all and Happy Holidays! Currently having an issue with a clear film over most of the LR (can't tell if it's bacterial or an algae) and a small Cyano bloom. Tested water and got some conflicting results. What should I do? 11 month old 30 Gallon DT Drilled 10 Gallon Baffled Sump W/...

I have an AIO mixed reef with fish by Waterbox. 50.3g. I turned the filter off last night at about 8:00 p.m. to feed and dose phyto. ...woke up this morning to a cloudy tank... Only then to realize that the filter had been left off all night! 12+ hours. Somehow temperature is still reading 78...

Must have had something die under the rockwork but came home to cloudy water. Fish are gasping so I assume I have high ammonia but don't have a test for it anymore and all the stores are closed. I read a few articles that recommended only treating the ammonia spike and making sure the water...

First post here, wasnt hoping to run into issues this early and need feedback.... So I started up a IM 20g 2 months ago. Did a fishless cycle with bottled ammonia. Waited a month, put in a six line wrasse and a few softies and LPS and has now been another month with them all doing pretty well...

All fish QTed in copper prior to adding to tank. All corals stable prior to incident. Water stable with Po4 under .1, No3 around 15, alk between 8.2-8.4, calcium around 440, I recently added a group of fish to my main tank that had been in QT and dosed with copper for 30 days followed by...

I have a 75g aquarium been running for a couple of months now, I cycled the tank with the microbacter starter kit and it went well. The starter kit also came with a bottle of microbacter clean, to use over the next few months to battle through the ugly phase. The ugly phase has begun and hasn't...

ok so i decided to feed a little be more mysis shrimp today like double what i’m used to because my nutrients were low but then my tank is now going through a bacteria bloom could that be the cause because if it is then i’m lost for words and how do i fix this

Hello Everyone, After cleaning Canister filter with Saltwater, I see white dust is coming from canister filter. Every minute and its making my Aquarium look cloudy. I'm just worried about my fish, Did live bacteria died or something bad happened? :(

Currently combining my current tank and another tank into a third, new tank Mixed the water in the tank, woke up this morning to the water being cloudy Is this a bacterial bloom? What should I do about it, and would it be safe to add fish and coral later today? I would be doing a fifty percent...

Hello, I'm New into Saltwater Tanks (well, aquariums in general) So, My First Saltwater Aquarium, I've Used the Aquaforest Sea Salt for my 96 Liters Tank and After applying Bio S (The Bacterias) I would say maybe 15 minutes or so, the tank got all cloudy and full of Microbubbles on the surface...

I've been trying to resolve slightly cloudy water for a few weeks. This is a new build, running for only 9 weeks. 210 total gallons. No corals yet. Started with dry rock (CaribSea) wet sand (CaribSea) and Fritz Turbo Start. Inhabitants: 1 One-Spot Foxface, 3 Fijian Anthias, approximately 24...

This bacteria or algae is taking over my tank and making my leather corals shrink. Please help me fix this? Phosphate are zero, ammonia is zero, nitrite is zero, nitrate is zero, alkalinity, calcium, and magnesium all in range. Don’t know what else to do. I have done water changes, changed...

New to reefing—I bought used reef tank with livestock. I’ve had if for about 3 weeks and have a question on this brown algae. When we moved the tank it had a phos spike to 0.4, and started getting brown algae. I got a phos reactor with GFO running and have since brought the levels down from...

I thought I’d ID’ed this stuff as Licmophora sp. but now that I’ve let it grow out, I’m not so sure. It’s a brown-ish white looking feather protruding from the live rock in mostly high light intensity areas and emerging from what looks like existing algae. Salinity: 1.025 Temp: 78.6 Ammonia: 0...

I have a 65G, in a FISHLESS cycle 3 weeks now. Trying to set up a Clown Harem like Brs, they used Auto feeder to drop some pellet food into tank everyday when cycling. Just follow what BRS did. Yesterday, the auto feeder failed and a fed alot of pellet food. Water is cloudy today, should I do...

I just restarted a tank and the cycle is finished but got a heavy bacterial bloom. I slowly dissipates at night but comes back in the day with the lights on. If I leave the lights off, how many days will I generally need to do it to get rid of it, or is it just something that I have to let run...

Ok.. so I tore down and restarted by sps system. Ick ect . story on another thread... so I am QT everything now.. frags included.. i started a 30 long QT frag tank. things were going ok to begin with.. I have this recent growth of stringy almost detritus looking stuff. it does not look...

Hey guys. So I currently have a white slim bacterial bloom that I got from dosing nopox. Wondering what you guys recommend to treat it. Currently trying to wet skim and stopped all nopox dosing. Any help will be appreciated

Hi all. My IM Nuvo Fusion 20 gallon mixed reef has been up and running since its cycle completed in mid-October (~2 months). I have a pair of ocellaris clownfish and a handful of mostly LPS corals. All seem to be doing well. I also have 5 cerith snails which will come into play later. About...

I am having this stuff all over my tank. I think it is some sort of Cyano, please help me ID it.

as the title says I need some reassurance I’m doing the right thing. 65 gal system about 3 months old. No fish and a hand full of snails. The only 2 corals I have is a frag of gsp which is doing great and a green mushroom. I just switch to Radion XR30 g4 pro and am running the color pop program...

Well I came home to this three days ago! Water is cloudier now. All parameters are ideal. Ammonia 0 Nitrate 0 Nitrite 0 Kinda stumped? Hammer coral won't open. Fish are fine. Bacterial bloom? New tank uglies? Total stock Hammer coral Clownfish Scooter blenny Cuc