woke up to a cloudy tank-spawn?

[tybox]

I woke up today and my tank looked like someone dumped a couple of gallons of milk in it. All of the sps, fish and other coral's are fine except for 2 small frags that bleached. My tank reached very high temps yesterday, temp outside was over 110 so the ac was struggling to keep the house under 90. I cut my halides off about 3 hours early. I did a 25% wc and put fresh carbon and plan to do another tommorow. The tank is still pretty cloudy 2 hours later. My question is is this some sort of spawn, and if it is how worried should i be of the entire system crashing. I am going to cut back lights until the heat goes down and have already added a extra fan. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced anything like this.

 

[tangdiver]

test water parameters...could be to high of alk...or something else.

good luck

Grant

 

[tybox]

don't think it is alk, ca reactor has been pretty steady since I added it in dec. I am going test everything when I get home from work tonight.

 

[poknsnok]

do you have calurepa (sp)in your system??

 

[BONDQ]

I would stick to those water changes and carbon use.

I'm sure your persistance will pay off.

 

[tybox]

poknsok-I do have a small bit of grape calurepa that came in on a frag, and cheato in the sump, I also have a bit of bryopsis that pop's up in the summer(3 years in a row, same rock every year I would take it out but it has a nice acro growing off of it) then dies off in the winter.

bondq- I hope it pays off to.

 

[tybox]

another thing I forgot to mention is that the tank was putting off a very foul dead fish smell when I was doing the water changes.

 

[jdieck]

You must check your Ammonia levels. My best guess is that it is a bacterial bloom from die off due to the high temeprature.
Check parameters any how see how it goes, keep up water changes in case Ammonia is spiking.

 

[Deepsea2005]

I’ve had the same problem twice when the temp of the tank reached 85 degree. When the temp reaches that high, some of the organism, bacteria, in my water have died and cause the stinky and cloudy water.
I did 25% water-change and everything was okay.
Hoppe it helps.

 

[Wayner2]

Any urchins in your tank?, certain ones willl let off a substance that will cloud your water for awhile, I've seen large snails do it too.

 

[tybox]

well I changed out another 10 gal when I got home last tank was a little more clear but still had some cloudyness. Woke up this morning 1/2 of sps rtn'd and the other half are not looking so good but hangin in there. Should I be removing the rtn'd colonies?

 

[jdieck]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7809625#post7809625 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tybox
. Should I be removing the rtn'd colonies?

Yes, If any piece of it is still healthy try fragging it out trying to save that piece.

 

[tybox]

What I Was thinking of doing now is to reaquascape the tank for a rebuild and a mass cleanup, I was thinking of using the rocks with the encrusted rtn'd peices, Kind of using the rtn'd peices as spacers between rocks and bottom tank should I scrap this idea and just get rid of the rtn'd or is it ok?

 

[tybox]

I scraped that idea, and got rid of all rtn'd peices. There are a few peices that are slightly rtn'd. I have a few good size colonies that slightly faded in color and are showing some tissue loss on inner branches fragging these would mean I would have to break these colonies up into a lot of frags. The damage on these colonies has not seemed to spread since the initial event. I would love to keep these as colonies as there is a lot of empty space in the tank now. So I Guess my question is will the rtn progress over time or do the coral pull through sometimes

 

[jdieck]

Sometimes they will pull through. Try to keep the affected areas clean with a baster to reduce the risk of infection.