I’m thinking this is a bacterial bloom of sorts, but not sure.
I did a 20% water change yesterday, it was well overdue, but surprisingly all parameters were normal aside from nitrate being around 30.
Now today my water is really cloudy, but everyone looks to be fine and all corals are open like normal. I did not agitate the sand bed in any way, so I know it’s not from that. Basically just killed the return pump and did my water change from the sump. Now my sump had a TON of algae that I removed (looks brand new again), and I did swap out the sock and rinsed out the sponge.
Now to my question, assuming this is a bacterial bloom, is that something that microbacter or similar products would take care of? Or would carbon be more beneficial? Or something else?
I did a 20% water change yesterday, it was well overdue, but surprisingly all parameters were normal aside from nitrate being around 30.
Now today my water is really cloudy, but everyone looks to be fine and all corals are open like normal. I did not agitate the sand bed in any way, so I know it’s not from that. Basically just killed the return pump and did my water change from the sump. Now my sump had a TON of algae that I removed (looks brand new again), and I did swap out the sock and rinsed out the sponge.
Now to my question, assuming this is a bacterial bloom, is that something that microbacter or similar products would take care of? Or would carbon be more beneficial? Or something else?