Sweet Jesus HELP!!!!!

[kidkaos520]

I just got home from work and my tank is really really really cloudy was not like this when I went to bed last night. Any thought or comments??? Oh and I did a 5 gallon water change

 

[SaltyTX]

uh, whats in your tank? Did something try to breed?

 

[kidkaos520]

for fish I got 2 grade B picasso a small goby fire shrimp and a pistol shrimp

 

[kidkaos520]

ANYONE????

 

[scottallert]

anything that could have spawned? clam, ect.

 

[fasteddie99]

bacterial bloom?

 

[jbird69]

were gonna need some kind of a lead here. What do you think may have caused it, Any idea at all? Theres just way too many possibilities without any info on your tank.

I would change 20% of your water volumn and run carbon asap.

 

[kidkaos520]

The only thing I can thing of that might have spawned was a pom pom crab that I saw was carrying eggs. But Im not sure if it would make my tank a Milky white.

 

[jrod11]

Do you does kalkwasser? maybe it all got emptied into your tank?

 

[kidkaos520]

Doing another water change now......when I went to sleep all the test levels were normal except the nitrate (has been 20 ppm since I had the tank running) but everything was fine water was nice and clear. When the wifey woke up she said it was like this. So this all happened in the span of about 7 hours

 

[kidkaos520]

The only thing I put in my tank is the A and B treatment

 

[SaltyTX]

Its like pulling teeth.. List everything about your tank and all parameters you know and what you do to the tank and the setup. That'll help immensely for all trying to help you.

 

[Tylt33]

Turn off your pumps and see if it clears up? Airbubbles?

 

[kidkaos520]

Sorry....parameter amonia 0 nitrate 20 calcium 440 KH 1210 degrees phospahte 0 every couple of days I dose with the A and B treatment other than that I just feed the fish Ora glo and mysis..... that all I do to the tank

 

[kidkaos520]

would that be ok to turn the pumps off??? I got the skimmer running and normally it takes a long while to accumilate alot of the junk thats in the tank....not its going nuts and its not the normal brownish green gunk but rather milky white with a little bit of the other gunk

 

[Tylt33]

Turn the pumps off for a minute and see if it clears up. It could be air... something could have spawned... something could have gotten added to your tank?

 

[kidkaos520]

pumps are now off but skimmer is still running

 

[Tylt33]

Do you have any caulerpa (macroalgae) in your tank?

 

[kidkaos520]

nope I think there might be some misc. plants in there but they have been in the 3rd chamber for a while....by the way its a 24g jbj nano if that helps any

 

[kidkaos520]

Feeling a lil slow right now.....I dont know if this helps or matters but I was running low on salt yesterday so I had to mix two different kinds of salts(instant ocean and sea chem) the instant ocean we stopped using because it sat under the sink kind of open and when we would do a water change it would make the tank look cloudy after but not as cloudy but you would see clumps of salt still floating (the reason why we stopped using it) maybe this had something to do with it? Although it was fine after the water change yesterday