Cloudy Water Massive Bacterial bloom High 9PPB Phosphates

[kjones12]

I have 2 captive bread common clown fish, 1 tail spot blenny, 1 yellow watchmen goby, 1 pistol shrimp, and a bubble tip along with a electric blue hermit crab that is probably long dead . Also a former overfeed with pellets problem...
Chem: 0 Ammonia, 0 Nitrites, 0 Nitrates, ALK 10.1 Temp ~78, Salinity 1.025sg (35ppm eference calibrated) refractometer, PH ~8.0 ( avg of 3 sources)
Anyway my question is think I could get away with quickly lowering PO4 with aggressive water changes ?

 

[Anirban]

If you dont do anything the bacterial bloom will go away slowly. Once it goes away you can take care about your PO4. 9 PPB is not huge but it can be lowered down a bit if you want. But for now just wait till the bloom goes away. Dont do anything just take care that the water is well aerated.

 

[kjones12]

Thank you ! Today was a better day I can just make out the hang-on skimmer on the 35G Hex all the fish are feeding what little I put in (just frozen PEM) even the pistol shrimp was out digging with the goby keeping an eye on me. I did a small 10% change prior to my first post only because I got worried last time I saw a yellow watchmen goby open swimming near the top I found the poor thing on the floor. Yeah I run lime wood air stone in the hangon refugium via a PH controller. PH is slowly stabilizing back to levels I saw before the bloom.