Come back from work and tank is cloudy and smelly?

[Lowporkwa]

10g nano stocked with just a little scooter blenny and a few hermits and a few snails. Been cycling it for 2 months now and everything has been perfect, crystal clear water no problems at all. Wake up this morning do the usual feed of a little bit of frozen brine shrimp which my blenny loves, and left for work.

I come home and the tank is a cloudy stinky mess! All the CUC and Snails and Blenny is accounted for. Blenny is just sitting on bottom breathing rather heavily looking a little stressed! I have 2 little whisper filters on it with just the foam pads, which i just cleaned off.

Anyways i do a weekly water change every sunday about 10% why the heck would this all of a sudden crash like this!? There was absolutely nothing wrong this morning and i get home and havoc!!!!!!!

No time to go to fish store to get water tested so i cant post params just curious as to what you guys would do!! Should i change some water? i only have about a gallon and a half of distilled water on hand and i dont want to use tap....let me know im worried about my tank!

[Achapman]

Well I just started my tank, but if that happened, 1st thing I would check is all the parameters.

Temp, PH, salinity, no2, no3, ammonia etc etc.

[kau_cinta_ku]

you really need to have your own test kits. mainly for this purpose. it will help out so much more.

but in the mean time I would do a water change.

[dsn112]

I maybe new and not no much but it sounds like you don't have testing supplies. If that is so, you need to get some. Can't be depending on a Lfs to do your work, testing supplies should be purchased with the tank!

[sunfish11]

First thing I would do is change at least 50% of the water. Don't mess around just do water changes ASAP.


Lisa

[Ritten]

I would do a water change and run some carbon.

[SpinningHat]

You can buy distilled water from any grocery store. You've got to be close to one that's open 24 hours...

[coast2coast7390]

im going to point my finger at the cuc

[Sk8r]

Cuke is a likely culprit. Caulerpa can also do it.
Running carbon and a 20% water change tonight, a 10% in another couple of days, test alk, temp, salinity, ph, ammonia, nitrate, etc. And KEEP A LOG BOOK, because memory isn't sufficient in the long term.

[sunfish11]

Sk8r, you can easily do a much bigger WC in this type of situation. I would definitely do at least 50% in this case...conservatively. If it was happening at my house I may do more than that.

Lisa

[coast2coast7390]

sk8r is right keep a log book...when i set my tank back up thats what im going to do