Bacteria Bloom? Update: LPS dying?

Do you have a reef tank? If so, how are your corals affected by it? And you quit water changes and replacing carbon...or I should just keep doing them?

Would a high amount of calcium play any part in this? My calcium is always 500+, it was 540 when I did my tests. I use Oceanic salt, which from what I've read is high in calcium.

 

yes, you could have calcium precipitation. Are you doing two part or any other calcium or alkalinity additives?

 

No, I haven't dosed anything into my tank. The tank is about two and a half months old and I've used Oceanic salt the whole time.

 

Yeah I have a reef tank. Only soft corals and they didn't seem to be affected by it. I cant tell you to stop doing waterchanges and stop dinning carbon, but that's what I did. I gave up and that's when it finally cleared slowly over a month. I know water changes don't do anything to help.

 

Damn, sounds exactly like what's going on in my tank. Thank you so much for all of your input!

Were your softies opening up like usual or did they take some time?

 

I never really noticed the fish or corals behaving differently. Just white cloudy water that wouldn't clear no matter what I did. It literally lasted over 2 months. It sucked.

 

Do you have any creatures that could be dying slowly unseen or un noticed like large brittle stars, anemones.....Did the sand bed get disturbed in anyway, do you have a DSB in the sump?

I would sure like to see the nitrite and nitrate values as well.

The description of the corals sounds like a mess. Quality carbon changes, water changes and increased O2, skim wet and do not feed for a day or so.

Images would sure help I think as well.

Good luck to you

 

Lol, if this is what I had none of that will work. I did all of that and it didn't phase the cloudiness one bit.

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That is what makes since to me as well. ;D

I would say the only big difference between what is going on in this tank and what happened to you is that the corals are acting differently. That kind of tells me that it is something different. ;D

 

Just to throw a new factor in - what type of softies do you have and did you add a new one? I have seen chemical warfare with softies and lps/sps. What size of tank? did u add live rock over the last 2 months? It either sounds like a softie is shedding or starting chemical warfare - or big ammonia spike, the tank is only 2 months old. did u add a tang? or more coral?