Aquarium turned grey cloudy color overnight, Help!

[bstone026]

Hello all, Okay here's what adjustments were made the night before I woke up to a grey cloud lol. Okay first off I got a fresh shipment of fish in the mail which were then added to the tank. Okay now I suspect it's one of these two products I added after the fish were settled, API Stress Zyme and Top Fin water conditioner which is a petsmart brand. So far I have done a 20% water change and replaced all chemical media in my canister filter. Fresh Carbon, Fluval Clearmax and Cobalt Total Reef, Same as Purigen.

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[SlugSnorter]

Hello all, Okay here's what adjustments were made the night before I woke up to a grey cloud lol. Okay first off I got a fresh shipment of fish in the mail which were then added to the tank. Okay now I suspect it's one of these two products I added after the fish were settled, API Stress Zyme and Top Fin water conditioner which is a petsmart brand. So far I have done a 20% water change and replaced all chemical media in my canister filter. Fresh Carbon, Fluval Clearmax and Cobalt Total Reef, Same as Purigen.

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looks like a bacterial bloom. How many fish did you add? what are you feeding? tank age? params? did you add any bacterial products to the tank?

 

[Geebs19]

+1 on bacterial bloom. I would be worries about oxygen, are you getting a lot of water movement? If not I would try aiming any powerheads at the surface or add an airstone

 

[Bucs20fan]

bacterial bloom for sure, get an airstone in there asap if possible. It will sap the oxygen out of the water and start to kill the fish.


Edit: This will happen much quicker than you think, so make sure youre doing water changes and get some surface agitation.

 

[bstone026]

Darn and I just added more nitrifying bacteria since I did the water change and added some bactrox to help them get started. Okay I will add an air stone, I already have 2 powerheads a marineland hang on filter plus canister filter. Could you please advice me how to get rid of this bacteria bloom? Thank You

 

[Bucs20fan]

Water changes, keep the oxygen level up. It will have to play itself out. As long as there is O2 in the water it will not harm the fish.

 

[Garia666]

My best guess is your snails spawned, if you have a gazillion trochus snails in the next view weeks well know for sure

 

[bstone026]

Water changes, keep the oxygen level up. It will have to play itself out. As long as there is O2 in the water it will not harm the fish.

Okay thank you, My water parameters are holding perfect other than the ph being low because of the water change.
I wish there was a quicker or easier way to get this bloom under control insead of doing a whole lot of water changes

 

[homer1475]

I see a bottle of marine buffer on that tank. THROW THAT CRAP AWAY!!!!

Probably not what caused your bacterial bloom, but all it will do is give you a temporary boost to PH, while skyrocketing your ALK.

MY guess would be the stress zyme.