Definitely curious what you find. In my experience, "random" cloudy events are 90% of the time bacterial blooms - if nothing else obvious is causing it.
I woke up to a cloudy tank today too. A big turbo snail knocked my cheap power head loose and it was pointed directly down, blowing sand everywhere. Previously, I had what I believe was a copepod bloom. All my corals looked super happy, mouths full too. The particles floating around seemed to look like copepods.
Those fking turbo snails. Mine get up next to the power heads constantly and rattle around making a ton of noise, it's like fun for them it's so annoying.
If your noticing the zoa"s etc looking extra well compared to usual it may be worth checking the basics like nitrates etc to make sure nothing is getting too high before it gets too bad
I have a fluval 13.5. Did a water change and everything was looking normal. I come home later in the night and the tank looked off with the lights out. Turned em on and it was clouded like crazy. My blue damsel was fine and my recently added zoas looked a little odd. I added water clarity and it seemed to help… still observing
Probably something spawning, I don't think you are going to randomly get a bacterial bloom in a system like this. The fact everything is really open means they may have been feasting on it overnight. I want some of the pulsing anthelia!
I have a 7 month old aquarium and have had several white cloudy episodes. They go away after a few days. I don’t know what it is and would love to know. If it’s bacterial bloom, what causes the bloom?
I have never experienced a completely unknown cloudy water event, usually, I can trace it back to something I screwed up. My bet would be on snails spawning, especially if your skimmer is acting up.
Just a few days ago I found my return pump was not pumping at full speed. I cleaned it and next day it's back to clear. I also added 2 doses of Redsea AB in one day?
I know this is an old video but who cares theyre still super interesting and helpful. So I'm currently going through this at the moment and wondered if anyone has the knowledge to say if it is what I thing it is. Here goes. I started carbon dosing NP Bacto Balance last week along with Microbacter7 because I had a crazy nutrient imbalance. Nitrate was around 40 and Phos was 0.03, possibly the reason why cannot for the life of me get rid of green hair algae. So I dosed a quarter of the dose for NP as directed by Lou Ekus of Tropic Marin (SIDETRACK - his video carbon dosing at Macna 2022 was mindblowing hence why I started doing it), and half the dose of MB7 just to be safe I was dropping nutrients too fast. I then tested a week later, Nitrate was 5 and Phos 0.00. Lou Ekus also said if nutrients get too low then add a little PlusNP which is still carbon dosing but lifts the parameters above 0.00. The next day is when I noticed the water was cloudy, it wasn't a sandstorm event and my tank has been running for over a year so nothing to do with a cycle so has to be a bacterial bloom, oh and no dead fish. Could it be that the carbon dosing has worked so well while also dosing beneficial bacteria that they went into overdrive and multiplied like crazy hence why the parameters shot down quite quick. It's the only direct change I've made recently to warrant the bloom and my corals are like a pig in shit at the moment, full happy polyp extensions, BUT! My 4 BTA's have been closed up for the same period of time as the carbon dosing, not dead or dying but just moody and clsoed. Could any these theories be a viable reason?
Hi, maybe disinfectant? I once had the problem that the fine mist has probably settled in the reef 🤷♂️ You will have already checked the usual things😉 Or someone still had residues on the hand. Maybe try to run some fresh carbon ? Greetings from Germany ✌ Pat
Hmmm... This is a tricky one when it happens out of the blue. On the few occasions it has happened in my tank, it was a bunch of stomatella snails releasing gametes into the the water. Pretty interesting to see. Another time, I had a coral spawning event that momentarily turned the water cloudy/milky. So maybe something similar along those lines? Another possibility could be some sort of contaminant got into the tank/system.
something is probably spawning i think . could be snails, anenomes (mini carpets or others, maybe rockflowers other species, or possibly some species of corals too...
Spawning event, either coral or snails. Floss and carbon perfect for this. Nothing dying is the best thing you can see, since they’re probably feeding on that new food source.
Did someone spray even the slightest bit of lysol or equivalent? I sprayed a very small amount and my 150 and 125 both were cloudy the next day! It did not hurt anything. Maybe another type of spray. It take very little.
I've had (after lights off) 6 x BTA shrink at the same time and then spew white clouds??? so thick I couldn't see the back of the tank, haven't got a clue what it was but in the morning it was all gone, it happened several nights in a row. The tank looked good and it had no effect on the fish. Still puzzled to what happened.
This has probably been said already, but it could be a spawning event of some kind (you have a ton of species that look naturally happy this could be possible) or could even be a simple bacterial bloom. Bacteria of what kind? Good or bad? Well it's time to to break out the expensive testing equipment or literally just hire someone who really knows what they they are doing. There are a ton of of us out there. I've been in this hobby damn... Going on 18 years now so I've seen a lot of crazy/unexplainable things happen. Hell we still know more about the moon than we do about our worlds oceans. But hopefully you can figure it out. Good luck.
In my case the hammer wall die…so I have a pick of bacteria bloom .. my cleaner shrimp die cause to …. What I did was remove the hammer, partially water chance , filter clean and let the aquarium do the rest … well see
Happens to me twice one was a mushroom that got trapped under a rock and started dying. Second was when I used Dr Tim’s waste away. Have you used anything like that recently?
p.s. your floss and eggcrate setup is not ghetto. its simple and highly efficient. socks are the bloody worst and also dont be stressed even if youre trying to grow to sell - keep things up at this rate and soon you will probably be making more $ from youtube than sales anyway lol.
