Hello! Very first emergency thread (also first tank), so I hope I'm doing this right.
Specs:
Tank has been set up since August, 20 gallons initially set with dry rock and bagged "live" sand
Salinity 1.025
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5 ppm
pH 8.1
dKH 10
The tank was a little cloudy before I did the weekly 20% water change but I thought it was because I just changed the powerhead to one that can be controlled with the Current-USA lights. This got worse the next day, so we did another 20% water change and most things I've read points to this being a bacterial bloom, and the most common advice is to let it run its course in about a week, or to add a UV sterilizer to speed it up. Since it was still just a bit cloudy, we decided to wait it out. That was Wednesday, and now it looks like this:
Since there is no sump, how can we utilize a UV sterilizer? Should we do a massive water change to try and clear it, or will that just prolong the bloom's cycling process? Thanks all for your help!
Specs:
Tank has been set up since August, 20 gallons initially set with dry rock and bagged "live" sand
Salinity 1.025
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 5 ppm
pH 8.1
dKH 10
The tank was a little cloudy before I did the weekly 20% water change but I thought it was because I just changed the powerhead to one that can be controlled with the Current-USA lights. This got worse the next day, so we did another 20% water change and most things I've read points to this being a bacterial bloom, and the most common advice is to let it run its course in about a week, or to add a UV sterilizer to speed it up. Since it was still just a bit cloudy, we decided to wait it out. That was Wednesday, and now it looks like this:
Since there is no sump, how can we utilize a UV sterilizer? Should we do a massive water change to try and clear it, or will that just prolong the bloom's cycling process? Thanks all for your help!