Don't know what changed... Please help!!!

[24gnanonewbie]

I don’t know what’s up with my tank(24g AP)! A few days ago, I put a 70w HQI Metal Halide light fixture and a CPR Skimmer on it… Thought both of those things were great!

Well… Day 2, the water was REALLY cloudy… Day 3 I start getting this white slimmy stuff building up on the glass, and gunking up my power heads… What’s the deal?

My water parameters are good. 8.2 Ph, 0-Nitrate, Ammonia, and Nitrite. Temp is about 80…

So the ONLY things I have changed were, I took off the stock hood… put a metal halide and skimmer on…

HELP!!!

 

[Rosseau]

I wonder if some of the corals weren't ready for such a jump in light intensity. Sometimes they need to be acclimated to the light change, essentially. Maybe something died or became sick in the new light and spread something around the tank? I'm really not sure, that seems to have happened fast...... But if I were you I would research that change.

maybe a dumb question, but the cloudiness isn't just lots of small bubbles from the skimmer is it?

 

[24gnanonewbie]

no... that went away after a day... the cloudyness was just cloudy water...

 

[arthurlo]

Was the skimmer brand new?

Did you reduce the number of hours of lighting or add some eggcrate to minimize the shock due to the new light?

Regardless, try a water change and some carbon. Rosseau is probably correct in his assumption that something may have died due to the new light.