Few too many things at once can be a disaster

[Nordy]

Hi,
I kinda broke that rule that says do only one thing at a time. So there’s a ton going on with my 158.5 gallon reef setup. I recently got a cyano outbreak and I’ve had some GHA. Overfeeding fish, nightly coral feeds, and I have used multiple things simultaneously to keep things from getting too unbalanced. Parameters are descent, but I used 3 different amounts of different bottled bacteria’s in an 48 hour period and turned off all Filtration. When I started up my media canisters that had been sitting for that time, things went awry quickly. Too much bacteria, perhaps too heavy on carbon dosing and I could tell oxygen wasn’t available for my 16 fish. Lips were moving a lot on the fish, thank goodness I was there, so here is what I did to get things back on track:
-Opened my window
-Got skimmer running
-All equipment up and going, notably UV Sterlizer
-Brought some gyres close to the surface and at 100%
-Return pump to 100%
-Got RODI water running
-Grabbed an extra pump, and bobbed it at the surface with the outlet facing down
_Did 2 four gallon water changes, about 80 minutes apart, around 5% tank volume total between the two
-Added Prime water conditioner (thinking behind that was media canisters with stagnant water probably had lots of bacteria and extra stuff that wasn’t good from there hiatus while using bottled bacteria)
-Ended up adding OceanMagik around 2:00AM (no hard reasoning behind that, but it is a good potion in a bottle, & hopefully it wasn’t the opposite of my intention, definitely needed some good juju to keep things from getting worse.
-7:00 AM did a 15% WC with Neo Marine (supposed to wait 24 hours after hitting salinity while mixing, but time wasn’t an allie, and previous nights WC’s was Red Sea Black bucket which I use for emergencies or small needs because of its superior mixing time and readiness.

First pic is of my new Tribal Blenny. All you guys on this forum love Blennies, so I had to get a first hand look at one myself, plus I’m hoping he likes the algae in my tank! Sadly he was in rough shape, but I adore my Acanthophyllia serving as his resting point!
Rest of pictures are today’s, fish are hungry and fully active, things seem golden and where they should be. Tomorrow will be water testing for sure.
Hope there is some solid things I did well in this major oops of mine, but if you guys know the scientific data and got pointers I missed, please share, I was pretty scared I really screwed up, and wanted to share I’m a Bozo, but maybe did some good to save 16 fish from kickin an old salt bucket.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I love the tribal blenny! Good on you for trying to strike the cyano and GHA before it gets out of hand!

 

[Nordy]

Really liking the Blenny, my final addition, neat to watch and seems to be doing great with a few conspecifics in the tank. Hope he has an appetite for munching the algae on rocks and what not, and doesn’t get spoiled holding out for breakfast, lunch and dinner chow

 

[Nordy]

Found his chill out spot

 

[Nordy]

Blennies are a fun fish I’m learning, this one is quite tame around me, comes up to the Turkey baster when I’m coral feeding, and actively swims with the other fish in the water column. And it’ll often chill on the Acanthophyllia, kinda of a Blenny futon.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Blennies are a fun fish I’m learning, this one is quite tame around me, comes up to the Turkey baster when I’m coral feeding, and actively swims with the other fish in the water column. And it’ll often chill on the Acanthophyllia, kinda of a Blenny futon.

Typical blenny behavior, haha. Glad he is doing good in your tank!