Help !!!

[reefandfish]

This morning my water is smells pretty bad and the water is cloudy, I haven't add anything to the tank. running carbon since last week. but that's about it. any help ? except to do a water change ?

One more Q. what is the maximum gallon I can do water chab=nge on 55 G tank ?

[Loverotties]

Originally Posted by reefandfish

This morning my water is smells pretty bad and the water is cloudy, I haven't add anything to the tank. running carbon since last week. but that's about it. any help ? except to do a water change ?

One more Q. what is the maximum gallon I can do water chab=nge on 55 G tank ?

Need to knowmore.is this new? whats in the tank?what are your water parimeters?

[Hop]

Technically you can do a 100% waterchange if temp and pH match, but that *could* open up a few issues. I try not to exceed about 30-40% per waterchange.

[reefandfish]

this tank is about a year and half old .... and that jusat happened over night, everything was fine yesterday. night

[Hop]

Could just be a bacterial bloom, something may have spawned or any host of other things could have happened.

[Loverotties]

Why do you have a yr and half just water in the tank?

[reefandfish]

no !! the tank is year and half old with all other stuff in, most of my mushrooms seem to be dead I did about 15G water change and plan to do more tomorrow. water is still cloudy

[Fat Tony]

Are you running carbon? Do you have any clams?

[reefandfish]

I have one clam, and was running carbon for about a week . just took the carbon out this morning when I found out. Could dying xenia done this ?

[reefandfish]

why would it go after mushrooms only ? my blue, green, red mushrooms are all shriveled and looks they're close to death but not any other of my corals ...?? any ideas ?

[Fat Tony]

Don't worry about the mushrooms, nuclear war barely kills them. It sounds like a bacterial bloom, and carbon will only make it worse. Are you running a skimmer? The main issue is carbon source as they drive these types of bacterial blooms being a food source for them. If you have a good skimmer, skim alot wetter and try not to feed the tank. Do some decent water changes to try to dilute the carbon compounds in the tank.

[reefandfish]

I was adding reef Biofuel and everything was fine then I tried to add regular carbon and that may have done it then. I'm going to do about 20% water change tommorow and see. but everything seems to be good so far. ... for now

[Fat Tony]

Ther's your biofuel, biofuel... that is basically a Carbon source and a base component of the Zeo type methodology. Stop dosing it entirely.. that is what the problem is for sure... and stop running carbon as well for the time being. You don't need all these special additives to keep a succesful RA... especially a softie based tank... for an SPS tank, they may be helpful..