spooky cloudy water?

[kylepelk]

ok i put new leds on my 29biocube and everything is looken alot better, well i think. i noticed today that my bta doesnt look like hes doin so well. he hasnt really come out of the rocks in the past week and i havnt been able to feed him sense then either. he has been moving around in there but hasnt come out to great me lol. well i looked at him today and his foot looks half way attached to the rock and seems to be stretched out thin till his head is touching the ground
and well after i noticed that. later today i notice that the water had a hase to it and light cloudy. you can see like the cloudy water rolling in its self like fog would. its hard to tell from the picture
idk if the cloudy water is form the bta or what. any help would be wonderful!!

 

[kylepelk]

heres a little better of a picture

 

[Robink]

what intensity are the lights at? You should acclimate them to the lights, lower the intensity and gradually bring it up. I keep my radions at 50 %. Was it under led's before? Not sure why the water is cloudy. could be anyone stirring up the sand.

 

[kylepelk]

it was stock lights then i put the truelumen led strips in. that could be the problem i do have them maxed but they are not really a intense light upgrade i dont think. and only fish i have that will sure up the gravel is a convict goby. but hes been renovating quit a bit and it hasnt gotten cloudy like this that i have noticed

 

[Robink]

Led's are stronger than they look. I don't know the brands but with the radion I started out at 30% and worked my way up to 50% intensity. which in the program I run is lower than 50%. I think it stays at around 37-38%.

 

[kylepelk]

also my corals havnt really opened up either like the zoas and the green striped mushroom i have. the green stars are doin great at the bottom of the tank. my parameters are all great. no spikes at all

 

[kylepelk]

anyone elts got an opinion?

 

[Breakthecycle2]

The non acclimation to the LED's is the best opinion.

 

[Robink]

How old is your tank? and what are your parameters?

 

[lion king]

If it's rolling through like fog, it's likely a bacterial bloom. Did you increase your feedings lately due to adding fish or just overfeeding. I've had bacterial blooms that had no negative effects, they can last for weeks though. The 1st thing I do is test for ammonia just in case, slow down on feedings, even skip a day, feed every other day. The rolling fog is just bacteria that has bloomed to compensate for an increase in nutrients and hasn't found a home yet. It will clear whn your bioload comes down, a uv sterilizer will clear it over night.

 

[kylepelk]

I only have 3 fish in the tank right now. I think yesterday or the day before I found my royal gramma dead behind the rocks from unknown reasons. I only feed every other day and I got a decent clean up crew. I will check my parimaters and let you know what I find out! Thank all of you for ur in put. And I'll tone down the lights. Should I start at 25% and work my way up from there?

 

[kylepelk]

So let's see. My ammonia is:0
Nitrite is:0
Nitrate is:0
Phosphates is: traces
Calcium:400ppm
Alkalinity is:9
Ph is:8
Salinity is:1.024
Seems all good to me. But I'm still a newbie. Been a year in this hobby

 

[lion king]

I've never had 0 nitrates? In a new setup a dead fish could cause a bacterial bloom, if your ammonia is zero you have nothing to worry about.

 

[kylepelk]

I got the test kit from petsmart so I'm not sure if it's that great of a kit. The tank has been running sense last October I believe give or take a month. Thanks again for the help and the anemone is on the move again after I turn the lights off for the night. The things he does gives me a stroke. I like that little guy to much lol