EMERGENCY - Bacteria bloom in ESTABLISHED tank

[leilanastasia]

I don’t know what happened but I did a water change yesterday on my tank, I removed one of my longtime live rocks for a couple smaller rocks to give my fish more room to swim etc. how in the world do I fix this. My tank is 10 months old. One of my fish died overnight and I had just done one more water change as my other fish is breathing very heavily/gasping. This is so scary :”(

the bacteria bloom is super cloudy. Please hit me with your suggestions/fixes.

 

[Dcal]

id start with testing

 

[GHOSTLY]

Testing and UV Sterilizwr if you can do that

 

[Spare time]

Get a lot of surface agitation, and try to get a hold of a cheap UV sterilizer like a green killing machine (those are actually pretty decent). Did anything noticeable die before hand?

 

[atul176]

I don’t know what happened but I did a water change yesterday on my tank, I removed one of my longtime live rocks for a couple smaller rocks to give my fish more room to swim etc. how in the world do I fix this. My tank is 10 months old. One of my fish died overnight and I had just done one more water change as my other fish is breathing very heavily/gasping. This is so scary :”(

the bacteria bloom is super cloudy. Please hit me with your suggestions/fixes.

1. Air stone
2. Depending on the size of your tank get a UV sterilizer of the green killing machine variety.
3. Try not to disturb anything major for a while.

 

[leilanastasia]

Get a lot of surface agitation, and try to get a hold of a cheap UV sterilizer like a green killing machine (those are actually pretty decent). Did anything noticeable die before hand?

Thank you! I actually surprisingly have one on hand I haven’t set up

 

[leilanastasia]

1. Air stone
2. Depending on the size of your tank get a UV sterilizer of the green killing machine variety.
3. Try not to disturb anything major for a while.

How come an air stone?

 

[atul176]

How come an air stone?

Airborne coupled with surface agitation increases the oxygen in the water, which a bacterial bloom usually depletes.

 

[Spare time]

Thank you! I actually surprisingly have one on hand I haven’t set up

It should clear it up

 

[GHOSTLY]

Agree with comment above

 

[leilanastasia]

Airborne coupled with surface agitation increases the oxygen in the water, which a bacterial bloom usually depletes.

Thank you!!!