What might cause cloudy water? (1 Viewer)

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Woke up today to cloudy water. Not to the point that I can't see through it but definitely not as clear as normal. What may be the cause?

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[RR-MAN]

Are you running biopellets?

 

[Aggiefish12]

How old is tank? R u sure it's not dirty glass


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[jqsquared]

Bacteria bloom would be my first guess

 

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No biolpellets and take is a little over 4 years old. I've been taking my alk dow so doing 30ish gallon water changes every 2-3 days with Tropic Marin Pro Reef.

 

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I move some well established rock from my fuge to my DT about 3 weeks ago. Looks like I'm getting a small diatom bloom.

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[PSXerholic]

Radar,
did you have increased feeding recently?
A small bacteria bloom is my first opinion if nothing disturbed the sand potential.

Keep an eye on it but wait if it's not getting worse.
Preventive you can run lights shorter.

Anything you dosed?
Fertilizer or anything like trace elements?

-Andre

 

[sneezebeetle]

Do you have any wrasses? My tank will get cloudy when my Melanarus Wrasse wants to hunt for ghost shrimp. He kicks up alot of sand when he is hunting. He is quite a determined guy.

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Radar,
did you have increased feeding recently?
A small bacteria bloom is my first opinion if nothing disturbed the sand potential.

Keep an eye on it but wait if it's not getting worse.
Preventive you can run lights shorter.

Anything you dosed?
Fertilizer or anything like trace elements?

-Andre

No dosing at all. I have increased feeding but I have cut out all pellet food and gone to all frozen

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[PSXerholic]

No dosing at all. I have increased feeding but I have cut out all pellet food and gone to all frozen

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You might have added too much and too quick the frozen food.
The biology need to adapt first to it, likely you fed white bacteria strains to overpopulate.

Like I said, try first reduced feeding and keep lights off for a day if you experience that again tomorrow.

Let me know if that helps somewhat.
Can be other things but it looks like the above for now.
Have Air pumps and airstones ready in case of a sudden bacterial explosion and the water becomes real white!

-Andre

 

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Well, that's not good. Everything else looks fine

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The only thing that changed was my ATO dumped my entire reservoir in that I had freshly filled (8-9g). I'm about to do a 50g water change

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I don't keep crabs anymore but I jus found this guy close to that SPS. Could he have done it

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[rparker2112]

Well, that's not good. Everything else looks fine

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Oh no!!!! [emoji22]

I don't keep crabs anymore but I jus found this guy close to that SPS. Could he have done it

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I had a hermit eat/attack on my birdnest once. He was sent to the sump. Did great down there.

 

[RR-MAN]

Well, that's not good. Everything else looks fine

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Sure, blame the little crab.

 

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Just did a 55g water change. The only thing I can think of is the drop in salinity from the reservoir dump.

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[PSXerholic]

Radar,

that is likely an ALK swing issue here.

Normally I would say high ALK in combo with high CA (above 460-480 and more)

But with the salinity swing comes an ALK swing.
So is the cloudy water is still an issue?

Sure you dont have too high ALK???????


-Andre

 

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Water clarity is good. I had the lights off until I saw that and hadn't fed in about a day and a half. I bought Diesel's WD frag but his alk is around 8 and mine was 11.7 so I have been doing water changes every 2-3 days with Tropic Marin and my alk is now 9.4. I need to test calcium.

 

[PSXerholic]

Water clarity is good. I had the lights off until I saw that and hadn't fed in about a day and a half. I bought Diesel's WD frag but his alk is around 8 and mine was 11.7 so I have been doing water changes every 2-3 days with Tropic Marin and my alk is now 9.4. I need to test calcium.

There you go.
Check CA asap, probably 500 and up !?

-Andre