Montipora RTN melted overnight, bacterial bloom

[LordClownFish]

Is there anything I can do for the bacterial bloom besides wait it out?

My monti randomly got RTN yesterday and basically disolved overnight. Its very odd because everything else seems normal.

I'm running carbon, ozone and 2 UV sterilizers.

 

[DenverSaltyFarm]

are you running a protein skimmer? also did you recently do a water change causing the bacteria bloom?

 

[LordClownFish]

I haven't done a water change in a few months, I do run a skimmer yes. My nutes are a bit out of whack right now, nitrate is 18ppm and phosphate is 0.02. It was 0.04 last week and nitrate was 10 so things have unbalanced a bit. I am going to add neophos later today. I suspect the out of balance nutes along with coral snow (been trying to kill vermintids) caused the Monti to get RTN.

 

[DenverSaltyFarm]

ya the snow could have been a factor. I personally would wait until the bacteria bloom is gone before adding phosphate. It can make the bacteria bloom worse by feeding them the phosphate. also are you running the ozone and uv only because of the bacteria bloom or are they running all the time? I personally would only run those if you have a problem to fight that problem and take them away when the problem is gone. Also running normal activated carbon will strip trace elements out of the water. I highly reccomend using Catalytic Carbon if you are going to use Carbon in your tank to prevent stripping trace elements.


Lastly your tank is looking great BTW I could never get an all in one tank to look that good

 

[LordClownFish]

ya the snow could have been a factor. I personally would wait until the bacteria bloom is gone before adding phosphate. It can make the bacteria bloom worse by feeding them the phosphate. also are you running the ozone and uv only because of the bacteria bloom or are they running all the time? I personally would only run those if you have a problem to fight that problem and take them away when the problem is gone. Also running normal activated carbon will strip trace elements out of the water. I highly reccomend using Catalytic Carbon if you are going to use Carbon in your tank to prevent stripping trace elements.


Lastly your tank is looking great BTW I could never get an all in one tank to look that good

I use Chemipure elite, I run ozone 24/7 and the 2 UV 24/7 (2 years this way). I have a sand dino outbreak ( the pesky kind i forget the name) that only seems to be somewhat controlled with the heavy UV and Ozone use. The only thing I dose is AFR. I have a very consistent Alk reading, for 4 months its been between 7.6-7.9, but i dose by drop count (literally counting the drops coming from the tube), not by volume.

And thanks, it's been a process but I've learned just keeping things as stable as possible seems to be the trick. I also do like 1 water change maybe 2 a year. Nutes are controlled with a fuge when needed. (I'll literally throw all the chateo away during a significant drop of Nitrate or Phos)