Frothy,Cloudy Water. help

My 55 cube has been running with skimmer and 28kg of semi live rock for 4 weeks now, i have a couple of snails and hermits to tackle the algae, and a very small chromis and Clown fish total length 1-1/2", chromis to help cycle the tank, small clown is a friends i'm holding while he repairs tank, its been doing great and all lvls have been 0 for the last week apart from ammonia which is 10,
Problem is i am getting froth accumulate on the sump water surface and in the weir, and it looks mildly cloudy, very slightly,
This all happened in the last 24hours, all i can think of is i feed the 2 little fish every other day a quarter cube, and have added biopellets, i have not done a water change yet.

Is this a bacterial bloom from overfeeding or something to do with my reactor and pellets,

Any info would be great, i plan on tackling this problem before it gets worse

Lights are on 8 hrs daily 150watt halide

 

Just wondering, since it only started when i added bio pellets, maybe i need to remove some, there is 150/200ml in there its 300litres, maybe take out half, and can i still use the ones i take out , just leave them to dry out?

 

Too much bacteria in a newly set up tank. I would increase the O2 and use some prime and a water change to give those poor fish a chance.

 

Ok, will do water change asap, how can I increase oxygen, all I have is a skimmer and powerheads and sorry for being a total noob but whats prime and what does it do, it may be named something else over here in the UK

 

Will removing the filter sock enable more oxygen?

 

If you have a skimmer running that should significantly help. You can adjust the power heads to provide more surface agitation.

Here is a link to Prime.

Seachem. Prime

Since you may not have access to this product or a similar product, I would proceed with a water change.

I would take the biopellets off line until the tank is months older.

Hope that helps.

 

Ok, will do, thanks alot Coral,

Can I dry out the pellets and use another time, they are expensive

 

Sorry I have no clue if that is doable, but I am curious as to the answer.

I googled: "Drying out bio-pellets and reusing them", I got a couple hits, you might have to reword it.

 

I believe you can rinse your pellets in ro/di,let them dry out and save them for later use.I have read in another thread that Jon Warner advised this to someone who was in a similar situation.The pellets themselves are simply a plastic polymer,so rinse off the bacteria and they should remain as new.

 

Is your ammonia really at 10 or is that a typo?Maybe you meant .10