Bacterial Bloom?

[ddaddy2420]

Woke up and checked my tank and everything looked normal, parameters were as follows:

Checked the 33 salinity and it’s slightly off, actual was a 36. Reefbot tests:

Nitrates: 10-20ppm
Phosphates: .02ppm
Calcium: 400
Alkalinity: 9.5

It’s a 50 gallon AIO Red Sea max e-170. Tank is only 6 months old. Currently running carbon and GFO. Dosing phyto and NoPox (although I can probably stop this now that my phosphates and nitrates are at a decent level). Alkatronic and Dosetronic maintain my 9.3-9.4 dkh using All for Reef. All my parameters are Pretty much where I’ve been running.

Few hours after checking on my tank, started noticing a cloudy look to the water, a hazy look. Almost looks like there is smoke swirling around when I look up from the bottom of the tank. Is this just part of a new tank? Ive heard UV helps but do I really need to do that? Or should I just let nature run it’s course.

I’ve tried a manual water change with my apex - did a 5 gallon over the last 24 hours). But nothing has improved.

Just recently received some torch corals but they look great. I feed HPD once a day to a few fish. I’ve attached a pic of the cloudy water with the maintenance mode on my lights.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated!!

Dale

 

[dmy535]

Sounds like a bacterial bloom to me yes. Mine did that too. Just kept up on maintenance as normal and it went away on it’s own. UV would help clear it up since it’s free floating, but I did not.

 

[Dark_Knightt]

UV sterilizer will clear that up in a day or two. Plus UVs are good with killing floating algae particles.

 

[ddaddy2420]

Ok I have a small aqua top uv that I never used. Can slip it in the tank, maybe it will help.

 

[Dkmoo]

I would actually not use the UV and let the bloom run its course. When it eventually goes away, that means your tanks various bioprocesses are getting more mature and the various biological checks and balances are becoming more robust. Nuking it with UV will get rid of the bloom but won't make your tank more stable or mature.

The more "sterilizing" and "chemical" methods you use to "keep the tank clean" the more you will need to depend on it as you add more stuff to it. Probably better to just let time and nature do its thing and use the maturing biodiversity to keep things in check and will increase your tanks stability in the long run.

 

[ddaddy2420]

I would actually not use the UV and let the bloom run its course. When it eventually goes away, that means your tanks various bioprocesses are getting more mature and the various biological checks and balances are becoming more robust. Nuking it with UV will get rid of the bloom but won't make your tank more stable or mature.

The more "sterilizing" and "chemical" methods you use to "keep the tank clean" the more you will need to depend on it as you add more stuff to it. Probably better to just let time and nature do its thing and use the maturing biodiversity to keep things in check and will increase your tanks stability in the long run.

Ok thanks for the advice

 

[Spare time]

I would check to make sure your skimmer is skimming properly and that nopox was not overdosed. These sorts of things are common with nopox and other carbon dosing methods if dosed too much or if the skimmer stops working properly.