Cloudy Tank

[bigsink]

I was doing work in my basement. I am putting up paneling and using heavy duty construction adhesive. My tanks are all in another room of the basement and are isolated from where the work is being done. Any problems from the fumes that can be causing my tanks to cloud up? What would be my best course of action?

 

[tosiek]

How long has the tank been up?

 

[bigsink]

Reef tank is up 6 months. Cichlid tanks are up years and are run by air pump to sponge filters. I am running heavy amounts of carbon on all tanks and doing water changes.

 

[Tonyscoots84]

are you also running a skimmer with an air intake.... i ask this cause i had a tank disaster as most of you all rememba with hairspray... it was my sister sweet 16 and the beauticians went threw 5 bottles of hairspray my tank was a disaster, water was very cloudy, stringy things all over the place.... what a headache that was..

 

[scumonkey]

Any problems from the fumes that can be causing my tanks to cloud up?

I doubt it!
I'm an artist.....I work in the same room as my tank (oh no)
Because I live in an open loft I can't close off the tank.
It's not the best thing for a tank to be in a room with fumes
(I have walls of windows I can open if it gets bad), But for me
it sometimes can't be avoided.:shhh:
I use adhesives incaustics, spirits,etc.,
with no problems.
If fumes could cloud your water, my tank would be opaque!
You didn't use any kind of aerosol adhesive, causing a mist that could have fallen into the water - did you?

I'd look for another reason- get more responses:grouphug:

What would be my best course of action?

I would at least do a partial water change and, if your not already...run some carbon.

 

[bigsink]

I am running a skimmer with air intake. I have shut that off for now. There is no other reason for all of the tanks to be cloudy. Carbon running in all tanks and water changes are happening. Thank you for the responses and encouraging words. All corals and fish are behaving normally. All coral polyps are extended.

 

[jackson6745]

Snails spawning? Look for the milky stuff coming from the snails.

 

[bigsink]

It is happening in ALL of my tanks. Even the cichlid tanks!

 

[Tonyscoots84]

are you also running a skimmer with an air intake.... i ask this cause i had a tank disaster as most of you all rememba with hairspray... it was my sister sweet 16 and the beauticians went threw 5 bottles of hairspray my tank was a disaster, water was very cloudy, stringy things all over the place.... what a headache that was..

:goldfish:

 

[inline6]

Hey Bigsink,
I experienced this before in the past.
It affected my freshwater and my fowlr.
I believe it was a bacterial bloom, is your water cloudy like skim milk?
Unfortunately nothing I did made it go away, no matter how much water I changed nor how much carbon I ran.

Sorry to say I lost all my livestock, they all slowly started to gasp for air and one by one they died (I actually gave away alot of fish to people to save them)

 

[Tonyscoots84]

what i did was 3 days worth of water changes, big water changes and ran carbon... the last day i picked up a diatom filter which polished the water back to normal... id say i saw the biggest difference when i used the diatom filter...

 

[scumonkey]

Bacterial bloom sounds about right to me.....
I'd turn that skimmer back on!

biggest difference when i used the diatom filter...

A good thing to have when you need to polish your water quick.....has also saved
my butt (and my fish) a few times in the past.

 

[bigsink]

How can I have a simultaneous bacterial bloom in 20 tanks? All cichlid tanks have cleared up with carbon and water changes. Reef tank is still cloudy. I did a 30% water change and will do another in the morning around 15%. I will also run my Diatom filter as well. All water parameters check out OK with the Salifert test kit. Cross my fingers and hope for the best!

 

[Tonyscoots84]

good luck as i said when i had the issue with my 75 gallon reef i went 3 days straight making sure nothing died... it was a really hard 3 days but everything survived... waterchanges carbon and that diatom filter you should be good...

 

[bigsink]

Well, I just woke up and everything looks OK. Still a little cloudy, but all livestock looks to be OK. I am going to do a water change, change the carbon, and add the diatom filter. Then it is off to work.

 

[Bob 1000]

FLOW... LOT of FLOW... Protein skim aggressively..