180 Gallon with BUBBLES everywhere?

[billswin99]

Have a 180 gallon tank newly set up. Have a 75 gallon around a year old which I used to seed the 180 it seems it instant cycled.

Showing 0 ammonia , 0 Nitrites and Nitrates.

The tank is going through a diatom bloom brown all over the live sand and rock. I have a diamond goby in the 75g tank I could add? Is that a bad idea?

However I have never seen mini bubbles all over like this. It starts when the lights come on and grows as the lights stay on. It covers all the live sand and rock. I tried blowing them off with power heads and the returns but there is just to many. I reduced the lights from 10 hours to 6 hours.

Any tips or ideas on what to do? I have a blue hippo tang and 2 clowns in the tank and that’s it. I have the rest of the fish waiting in the 75 gallon for this to finish and mature. I don’t want to go all dark because the hippo tang is new to the tank and worried it might freak him out. I also don’t want to add him to the 75g because they might beat him up, is much smaller than them.

I will add some pics later when I get off work.

 

[bigroost]

So you are talking about bubbles "stuck" to your rock? How long have they been in the new tank?

 

[lion king]

Seeding a tank does not mean that the tank is instantly cycled. If you are not showing any nitrates you are not cycled. Even when seeding you need to add an ammonia source and let the tank go through a normal cycle. You still need to track the ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate through a cycle. I deal with diatoms by adding cerith snails. The bubbles showing up as the light cycle proceeds could be photosynthesis of algae or even cyano. I would also test for phosphates; if you have phosphates and 0 nitrates, you may start to see cyano soon.

 

[billswin99]

Seeding a tank does not mean that the tank is instantly cycled. If you are not showing any nitrates you are not cycled. Even when seeding you need to add an ammonia source and let the tank go through a normal cycle. You still need to track the ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate through a cycle. I deal with diatoms by adding cerith snails. The bubbles showing up as the light cycle proceeds could be photosynthesis of algae or even cyano. I would also test for phosphates; if you have phosphates and 0 nitrates, you may start to see cyano soon.

Had ammonia at 1 ppm for the first few days. The tank has 3 fish currently and is checked daily 0 across the board. I added some pics. The bubbles are way better with only 6 hours of daylight.

You can still get the idea from the pics

 

[billswin99]

Just retested again 0 ammonia 0 nitrite and 5.0 nitrate

 

[Mr.Fishtank]

I think you have a case of dino's. You shouldn't be running the lights while cycling the tank. I would suggest cleaning all of that crap out while doing a very large wc. Keep the lights off untill the cycle is done. Then very slowly increase the lights over a few weeks.

 

[billswin99]

I think you have a case of dino's. You shouldn't be running the lights while cycling the tank. I would suggest cleaning all of that crap out while doing a very large wc. Keep the lights off untill the cycle is done. Then very slowly increase the lights over a few weeks.

The tank is fully cycled. I think it might be phosphates from the rock some of it was from a previous system. It was dry rock that was cleaned mixed with live rock.