Bacterial bloom

[Reefermadness73]

Not new to the hobby but this is a new tank for me. Been up 5 months and has 5 fish and 2 tester frags in it at the moment. Tank has been milky white for 2-3 weeks now and doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. This is the first time I've experienced this so not too sure how to approach this, not sure if I should just wait this out and do regular water changes or if a UV sterilizer will work. And now for water parameters.

Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate-0
Alk-9.2 (Hanna)
CA-410 (Salifert)
PO4-0 (Hanna)

 

[surfnsalt]

Same thing happen to one of mine and it lasted for 2weeks. I was told the bb in live rock needs to catch up with bio load and it will go away with time and it did. There is a few other things that can turn water white you can look into that as well.Cloudy Marine Aquarium Water - Marine Aquarium Service

 

[surfnsalt]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...ggnMAA&usg=AFQjCNHfrEiWe0koZFvylwEwsQEOtoojsg

 

[jetmaker]

Not new to the hobby but this is a new tank for me. Been up 5 months and has 5 fish and 2 tester frags in it at the moment. Tank has been milky white for 2-3 weeks now and doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. This is the first time I've experienced this so not too sure how to approach this, not sure if I should just wait this out and do regular water changes or if a UV sterilizer will work. And now for water parameters.

Ammonia-0
Nitrite-0
Nitrate-0
Alk-9.2 (Hanna)
CA-410 (Salifert)
PO4-0 (Hanna)

Uv steralizer will work over night.

 

[Reefermadness73]

Thanks for replying.... Forgot to mention that tank is bare bottom and I used dead/dry rock to start

 

[Reefermadness73]

Pics

 

[jetmaker]

Pics

Definitely uv steralizer

 

[Lenny_S]

+1 on the UV Sterilizer... Worked for me literally over night...
January 9

January 10

Link to my thread
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/help-me-decide-if-i-let-it-be-or-take-action.229037/

 

[ermartin]

using dry or clean rock i have had the issue more than once while setting up a new tank. I hung a UV unit for 2 days and all gone. ran it a couple extra days and put it back in storage waiting for the next new setup

 

[Belovedroses]

How did u fix that cloudy water?

 

[Lenny_S]

All I did was add a UV sterilizer

 

[Reefermadness73]

Added uv last night.... Tank is clearing up already

 

[Reefermadness73]

Tank as of today.... Did water change and still running UV

 

[Lenny_S]

Tank as of today.... Did water change and still running UV

That is pretty cool, so glad that helped. I've been running mine nonstop since 1/9, so almost a month. I have not seen any negative effects so far except there is a small amount of additional heat from the UV unit. I only noticed because I can see the heater cycle with my Apex and there is just more time between coming on than there was before. But not enough to overheat my tank.