CL8869
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If you don't want to hear me bash this stuff then back out now.
Anyways, I setup my 180 and got the temp and salinity right. Sump running great etc. System is around 215 gallons total capacity, so it takes 50 dollars worth of salt and quite a while to get the heat up to temp and two days of waiting for RO/DI water to be ready to go.
Got that all good to go, and like the bags says just pour it in and then add the magic eraser bag of liquid to clear up the tank.
First off, adding six bags of this crap turned the tank into a barrel of crud. 20 mins later my brand new filter socks were trashed and overflowing. After I woke up the next morning the tank was clear. However the entire system was covered in a white film. Turns out the water clarifier makes whatever the cloudiness is to become larger partials in the water and get trapped in the filter. That's fun. Sencond set of filter socks trashed. Stirred up the sand and let it clear up again while I was at work. Repeated this process for two days every 8 hours stirring up the sand to get the crud out.
Needless to say today I had to dump half the tank while gravel vacuuming the sand to get the cloudy stuff out from there. Then I had to completely remove my 55g sump and clean EVERYTHING Because it was all covered in white crud which would not come off without a fierce cleaning.
So three hours later my tank is now running again with completely cleaned out sand, most definately dead as the salinity is half of what it should be as I'm done wasting salt until I know it will stay clear. Heaters will be working overtime again tonight.
Ticked off, disappointed, and sick of working on my tank? You know it.
What a waste of money and time. Spent 180 on these bags of garbage, then around 30 bucks worth of salt trashed.
Sorry for the vent, hoping someone new wont buy this crud unless they are intentionally looking to trash their tank.
Anyways, I setup my 180 and got the temp and salinity right. Sump running great etc. System is around 215 gallons total capacity, so it takes 50 dollars worth of salt and quite a while to get the heat up to temp and two days of waiting for RO/DI water to be ready to go.
Got that all good to go, and like the bags says just pour it in and then add the magic eraser bag of liquid to clear up the tank.
First off, adding six bags of this crap turned the tank into a barrel of crud. 20 mins later my brand new filter socks were trashed and overflowing. After I woke up the next morning the tank was clear. However the entire system was covered in a white film. Turns out the water clarifier makes whatever the cloudiness is to become larger partials in the water and get trapped in the filter. That's fun. Sencond set of filter socks trashed. Stirred up the sand and let it clear up again while I was at work. Repeated this process for two days every 8 hours stirring up the sand to get the crud out.
Needless to say today I had to dump half the tank while gravel vacuuming the sand to get the cloudy stuff out from there. Then I had to completely remove my 55g sump and clean EVERYTHING Because it was all covered in white crud which would not come off without a fierce cleaning.
So three hours later my tank is now running again with completely cleaned out sand, most definately dead as the salinity is half of what it should be as I'm done wasting salt until I know it will stay clear. Heaters will be working overtime again tonight.
Ticked off, disappointed, and sick of working on my tank? You know it.
What a waste of money and time. Spent 180 on these bags of garbage, then around 30 bucks worth of salt trashed.
Sorry for the vent, hoping someone new wont buy this crud unless they are intentionally looking to trash their tank.
