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So, a few weeks back I was given a very, very bleached LTA. My LFS had ordered it for a customer, wasn't able to take care of it, and eventually sent it my way for free to see if I could try and save it. It went well.
Until I was gone for a few days on vacation and it decided to die. So, I came home to a milky white tank that I literally couldn't see anything in. No rocks, nothing. I did an 80% WC, refilled with temp/SG matched water, and then did another 50% WC. I followed that by adding carbon, turning up the flow in the tank, lowering my temp a bit, and reducing my light cycle just a bit to help combat the algae that had sprung up.
I managed not to lose anything else. No inverts, no corals, and no fish. Corals were obviously unhappy, but nothing life-threatening.
The next morning, the tank was once again a cloudy white. Bacterial bloom! General advice is to aerate and wait it out, so that's what I've been doing. I added 10% WCs daily to my maintenance schedule as well. That was Tuesday.
Fast forward to today, and the bloom is only a bit better. Still very cloudy. Is there anything else at all I could be doing for the tank? I know patience is key, and that this is most definitely my fault by introducing the anemone in the first place, but I want the best chances of this clearing up quickly.
Parameters are as follows:
Ammo/Nitrite: 0 PPM
Nitrate: 2-3 PPM
Phosphate: 0.16
SG: 1.025
Temp: 76 (I usually run the tank at about 80, but lowered it to increase oxygenation)
Alk: 9.9
Any advice at all is greatly appreciated, as I've posted on every other forum I'm a member of and haven't gotten too much that I didn't already know. Other than from @Stella1979 . She's pretty awesome.
Until I was gone for a few days on vacation and it decided to die. So, I came home to a milky white tank that I literally couldn't see anything in. No rocks, nothing. I did an 80% WC, refilled with temp/SG matched water, and then did another 50% WC. I followed that by adding carbon, turning up the flow in the tank, lowering my temp a bit, and reducing my light cycle just a bit to help combat the algae that had sprung up.
I managed not to lose anything else. No inverts, no corals, and no fish. Corals were obviously unhappy, but nothing life-threatening.
The next morning, the tank was once again a cloudy white. Bacterial bloom! General advice is to aerate and wait it out, so that's what I've been doing. I added 10% WCs daily to my maintenance schedule as well. That was Tuesday.
Fast forward to today, and the bloom is only a bit better. Still very cloudy. Is there anything else at all I could be doing for the tank? I know patience is key, and that this is most definitely my fault by introducing the anemone in the first place, but I want the best chances of this clearing up quickly.
Parameters are as follows:
Ammo/Nitrite: 0 PPM
Nitrate: 2-3 PPM
Phosphate: 0.16
SG: 1.025
Temp: 76 (I usually run the tank at about 80, but lowered it to increase oxygenation)
Alk: 9.9
Any advice at all is greatly appreciated, as I've posted on every other forum I'm a member of and haven't gotten too much that I didn't already know. Other than from @Stella1979 . She's pretty awesome.