bacteria bloom

I have been experiencing a wild bacteria bloom in my 3.4 nano. I’ve done 25% water changes and all. Even did a 75% the other day and it just gets worse.. phosphate is 0.1 ammonia: 0 nitrite: 0 nitrate:5 I’ve cut down extremely on food to almost starving my CUC and fish. I’ve kept my pump...

So i have a 32 gallon biocube which has been running smoothly for over a year now. The only filtration i run is a bag of chemipure blue under some intank filter floss, that along with weekly 5 gallon water changes have been enough to keep the tank stable. I woke up today and freaked out at the...

Hello all! I recently just tore down my 90 gallon tank and placed every surviving peace of coral in my 55 gallon tank in my other room. I posted a thread earlier on it and everything level-wise looked really well. No swings, levels in check and stable, did an icp test which came back with...

Am I dealing with some sort of bacterial issue in my water? I’m getting foam bubbles at top of tank. Water temps has been 80F. I’m running a UV Sterilizer 24/7. my Acans / micromussas seem to bubble up when lights out. The polyps aren’t close to skeleton with feeders out like normal. Instead...

Hey all, I've got a 25 lagoon thats been running for bout 6 weeks now. 2 small clowns, 1 royal gramma, cleaner shrimp, 6 snails 2 hermits. Can someone diagnose whats all over my glass and substrate? It's not bothering the zoas but my gsp isn't opening at all and my golden glove polyp isnt too...

So this morning I woke up to all of my fish laying on the substrate unalived. I have recently been having a nitrate and phosphate spike and have been dosing accordingly to get these numbers down, which have been coming down slowly. Obviously, this means that algae in my tank is RIFE and so to...

So I'm dealing with dinos. What are these and how to I rid them? Also there's got to be a pod of some sort and some thin things. Help to id these please.

I have a pink slime on my power heads and everywhere in my sump. My carbon/gfo reactor was completely clogged and my skimmer is making super thick skimmate that is coming out of the holes in the collection cup. It looks like it’s out if Ghostbusters 2. Im guessing its bacterial. It did treat my...

Hi, Noob here again My water is slowly starting to get cloudy? I just want to make sure everything is fine from the community When I turn off the flow a lot of the bigger white specs move and twich, but there are a lot a lot of white smaller particles that are starting to turn up. Any idea on...

So I found this at petsmart and is closer than LFS an hour away to get water. I’ve been using to supply my ATO for about a month and I notice a bacterial bloom and possible infection in fish. Is this ok to be using in place of RODI water.

Hey guys, I have a 10g tank and every time I do a water change my water gets cloudy! I don’t understand. It’s going to be barely a month (next week) that I have this tank up and running with livestock. All of my water parameters are fine. Ammonia-0 Nitrite-0 Nitrate-0 Ph-8.0 My tank has been...

Hello I hate to ask for help. After some time I finally realized my fish were breathing heavy from a bacterial bloom. To save the fish I would change the water. Then it would come back. Three fish stores testing my water, with me testing daily I can’t figure it out. Here is a picture before and...

[Little bit of info/background]: I had this 16g tank running, empty, for months. It never had lights on, only sunlight, and I thought it was cycled based on the ammonia/nitrate being none or low. A couple weeks ago my poor clown was dying and I tried to save him, so I put him in this tank (the...

Hello, I need some answers please. I setup a fluval 13.5 evo with live rock live sand and a bottle of dr Tim’s 5 weeks ago but I think I left the live rock in the open air for too long while setting up aqua scape and had some coraline algae die off chipping off and floating. My question is, does...

I just got my first ever reef tank and it's been amazing. I have had the tank about 3 weeks to a month now. It (now) has two hermit crabs, 5 snails,two damsels and one small polyp of a green star polyp. All doing well minus the recent hermit crab dying. I have two questions: 1. Should I do...

After being successful with a FOWL tank I decided to take it a level higher and make it a reef tank. I started with KENT MARINE NANO CORAL A AND B and VIPRASPECTRA 165W I dosed accordingly and only once since starting this tank, I want to say a month ago. Im currently still using Instant ocean...

Hello everyone! I am 3 weeks into my 55 gallon tank cycle and I just moved my over the tank filter to move it the right a little bit and out flew all this white fluffy/stringy stuff and it’s all over my tank! Is this good bacteria or is this bad? I just added two Clownfish in today. Salinity -...

What am I dealing with here guys? It’s starting to take over the tank. Appreciate any help

I’ve been googling away trying to figure out what this could be with no luck.. one thing to note, the tank has been without water changes for a solid 4-5 months. That’s besides the point, I just want to know what I’m battling I do believe a shrimp/goby pair died in the tank shortly after I put...

Hello everybody. I have a pretty unique question. I am not new to reefing I have Been reefing for the last 6-7years. I do mostly nano tanks and have a problem with a new 20 long I have started. It’s about a month and a half old, two clown fish and 20 pounds of live rock and running a canister...

I have a 75g aquarium been running for a couple of months now, I cycled the tank with the microbacter starter kit and it went well. The starter kit also came with a bottle of microbacter clean, to use over the next few months to battle through the ugly phase. The ugly phase has begun and hasn't...

So I had a green hair algae outbreak, then an ammonia spike, I dosed kordon AmQuelPlus ammonia detoxifier, it kills ammonia nitrite and nitrate, and chlorine. Things started to bounce back. I lost 2 cyphastrea, and a birdsnest, during that ammonia spike, it went to 0.50ppm. my xenia has been...

Hi, I have an issue with my tank. Its brand new, I have just used RO water and added the salt pouring it in small bits while the mp10 was turned on to help stirring. I used dry rocks, some glued with cement, and were washed before going in the tank. no bacteria inoculation was added I don’t...

I have a 240DT in a total 300g FOWLR. I started adding 7ml nopox 2 months back to control nitrates (my phosphate is near-0, I use gfo) but nitrate climb to 50 in 1 week after water change (30%) ..so i up the nopox to 6 ml noon and 6 ml night for last 3 weeks. Any suggestions on what this is ans...