Came home to a cloudy tank...

[ToXIc]

Ok so I came home today and the tanks all cloudy.. Fish are fine, corals looking good/normal... No nem chunks floating around.

But 3 days ago I added reactor with bio-pellets. I only used half of the recommended amount, enough for 50gal 200ml I think... Tank is a 120g. To slowly break the tank into it..

 

[jaytizzle]

Probably bacterial bloom from the info you posted. I just started my biopellet reactor about a week ago and only used 1/4 of the dose for my tank. No cloudy blooms for me.

 

[ToXIc]

Forgot to mention having a high temp problem also..

 

[Madreef]

You should have started with even less than that IMO. If you want remove some of the BP and keep going using mb7 with it, or remove reactor and wait it out. It should be fine but make sure your monitoring your water if you have sps corals.

 

[ToXIc]

man.. woke up this morning and its way more cloudy.. <--- grammer?! :tongue:

so i put an air pump in the tank and slowed the flow trough the biopellets..

 

[nixer]

its hard to say about how much pellets you need, but 200ml is way too much unless you have a really overstocked system.
its also way too much to start.

 

[ToXIc]

Will the bacteria bloom hurt anything?



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[Madreef]

No, the bacteria bloom should be fine, I would maintain the flow through your BP reactor. Slowing it will just cause build up in the reactor. I'm not sure an air pump is going to help anything. You should be running a large skimmer anyways.

 

[ToXIc]

Yeah I do have an overrated skimmer.


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[ToXIc]

Ok something new.

Came home and the reactor wasnt flowing when I looked it had a bunch of white/cream slime clogging it up. So I had to empty it and clean it out.


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[reefaholic420]

i have a 150 and started with 250ml... my tank was a cloudy for 2 days... yesterday i added 250ml.... and im gonna hold out at 500ml for a good while...my system calls for 1000ml