Coral stopped opening after adding nitrifying bacteria.

[Certain]

Ok so yestarday i added 15 ml of nitrifying bacteria inside my 20 gallon. The bottle with the bacteria inside smells strangely like alcohol. Is this normal? Also my toadstool didn't let out its tentacles for the whole day. Should i do a water change? The clownfish and shrimp seem to be doing OK and so is my xenia.

 

[sixty_reefer]

Ok so yestarday i added 15 ml of nitrifying bacteria inside my 20 gallon. The bottle with the bacteria inside smells strangely like alcohol. Is this normal? Also my toadstool didn't let out its tentacles for the whole day. Should i do a water change? The clownfish and shrimp seem to be doing OK and so is my xenia.

What brand was it?

 

[mtraylor]

Start by testing your parameters. These being the most critical.

Ammonia
Ph
Alkalinity
Nitrate
Nitrite
Temp
Salinity
Phosephate

Additional Just to know
Calcium
Magnesium

 

[Certain]

What brand was it?

you won't recognize it even if i told you, its made by a Chinese company. But i just want to make sure the acholic smell is normal right?

 

[sixty_reefer]

you won't recognize it even if i told you, its made by a Chinese company. But i just want to make sure the acholic smell is normal right?

Live bacteria can have several smells, if you suspect that there was a carbon content to the vessel you may need to look at two aspects.

1. did you observe a decrease in nutrients
2. Does the bottle has a recommendation of ml per gallon.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

is tank cycled? why would you add nitrifying bacteria? Especially from a bottle made in China that smells funny?

If its suspicious, I would do water changes and run activated carbon.

 

[IslandLifeReef]

you won't recognize it even if i told you, its made by a Chinese company. But i just want to make sure the acholic smell is normal right?

An unrecognizable Chinese off brand of bacteria that didn't smell right, hmm. I think you already have your answer. Why go with an off brand when there are so many other options that aren't that expensive?

 

[Tamberav]

Is the tank not cycled? Why did you add that?

 

[sixty_reefer]

An unrecognizable Chinese off brand of bacteria that didn't smell right, hmm. I think you already have your answer. Why go with an off brand when there are so many other options that aren't that expensive?

R2R is a fairly large platform with members from all over the world including china, most country’s will have there own brands.

is tank cycled? why would you add nitrifying bacteria? Especially from a bottle made in China that smells funny?

If its suspicious, I would do water changes and run activated carbon.

 

[IslandLifeReef]

R2R is a fairly large platform with members from all over the world including china, most country’s will have there own brands.

What makes you think that the OP is from China? Maybe the location of the OP is Los Angles China???