Cloudy water in reef

[Camaro Show Corals]

So all of a sudden my water got cloudy, after the power went out for about a hour and 45 minutes yesterday. So the power went out yesterday shortly after I dosed nopox as I am to keep my po4 down as it was very high 0.16 and it has been keeping it at 0.02. And the water was cloudy after and I just thought it was because of my orange spotted goby stirring up the sand and no water movement but now it has gotten a little better but still a bit cloudy.

Tank sps dom biocube 29
4 years old
Alk 8.8
Calc 450
Po4 0.02
Nitrate 2ppm
2 five gallon water changes a week using Red Sea blue bucket

I know nopox can make a cloudy if your dosing too much but I haven’t dosed today

 

[Camaro Show Corals]

Pic

 

[Camaro Show Corals]

That pic has the tank all rearranged as I was moving corals around to make room for the new ones I got yesterday

 

[Camaro Show Corals]

Bump

 

[timnem70]

Appears a bacterial bloom. After power outages the O2 levels drop and especially after moving corals around they will become distressed and your systems bio filter just gets overwhelmed. I get them from overfeeding now and again on my newer, 8mo. old reef. It'll return to normal.

 

[ZoWhat]

Imo .... I guess it to be a good bacterial bloom from the NOPOX dose.

Nothing to be concerned with....except a bloom sometimes depletes O2 from SW.

Keep an eye on the fish to make sure their breathing isn't rapid. If so, aerate the SW

Don't want flat sand-napping dead fish come 8am :/

 

[SPR1968]

Assuming it’s not just residual dust from the sand throwing goby, it looks like a bacterial bloom probably caused by the NoPox.

I would check your dosage and maybe reduce it until the water clears up as your Nitrate isn’t high anyway and then just try and balance it out.

 

[Camaro Show Corals]

Thank you

 

[DylanE]

If it really bothers you you can set up a UV sterilizer. If it is bacterial it should be cleared up in no time.

 

[Camaro Show Corals]

How long should it last

 

[DylanE]

It really just depends. I've only ever had them in my QT tanks, but they've cleared up in 24 hours before, and I've needed to use a UV after a week before. At least IME.

 

[aquatony]

I’ve had two bacterial blooms after big water changes. And to much feeding. Mine are perfectly clear after 2-3 days of noticing it