Hello everyone!!!
So my 90 Gallon tank is going well. I have filled it up with RO water (monday) and checked all the plumping and all seems to be working as planned with only self induced hickups. (Filled the fish tank with water and thought "wow" that's a really quiet pump only to find out it was not working. Another 10 min of investigation and sucking the tube thinking I need to prime it by siphoning water thur it it still did not work. Then another 5min and I realized I had not supplied power to it (my brother-in-law said "OH you had the O-F-F switch on" lol). Once I turned the power on I noticed the spout that the water pumps back to the tank was pointing across the room so spayed the entire dinner room with water. Great laugh at my expense).
Anyway on to my question;
After I let it run over night to make sure there were no leaks I put in the salt (figured it was better to mix it in an empty tank) and let it run for the night.
I woke up and the water was a bit cloudy but the salinity and test were in range of what was needed and recommend.
I then added a deep sand bed to my refugium/sump and the bottom of the thank which turned the entire tank into a cloudy mess.
I figured all that sand has to settle. So at the recommendation of a friend and after reading a lot of post here on cloudy water I turned everything off.
So everything has been off for two days and the water does seem to be cleaning up as I can see thru the tank and from end to end, however its really cloudy still.
My question is I notice that the sand is very powdery or at the very least the stuff that is still settling is very fine. Do you think this might be undissolved salt mix or just the finer parts of the live sand I put in?
How long do you think it will be before the water is clear and when I turn everything back on will it just stir up everything and make it cloudy again?
Right now there is not in the tank except the sand (no fish or anything).
Thanks in advance for all your help. I guess I am just getting impatient.
So my 90 Gallon tank is going well. I have filled it up with RO water (monday) and checked all the plumping and all seems to be working as planned with only self induced hickups. (Filled the fish tank with water and thought "wow" that's a really quiet pump only to find out it was not working. Another 10 min of investigation and sucking the tube thinking I need to prime it by siphoning water thur it it still did not work. Then another 5min and I realized I had not supplied power to it (my brother-in-law said "OH you had the O-F-F switch on" lol). Once I turned the power on I noticed the spout that the water pumps back to the tank was pointing across the room so spayed the entire dinner room with water. Great laugh at my expense).
Anyway on to my question;
After I let it run over night to make sure there were no leaks I put in the salt (figured it was better to mix it in an empty tank) and let it run for the night.
I woke up and the water was a bit cloudy but the salinity and test were in range of what was needed and recommend.
I then added a deep sand bed to my refugium/sump and the bottom of the thank which turned the entire tank into a cloudy mess.
I figured all that sand has to settle. So at the recommendation of a friend and after reading a lot of post here on cloudy water I turned everything off.
So everything has been off for two days and the water does seem to be cleaning up as I can see thru the tank and from end to end, however its really cloudy still.
My question is I notice that the sand is very powdery or at the very least the stuff that is still settling is very fine. Do you think this might be undissolved salt mix or just the finer parts of the live sand I put in?
How long do you think it will be before the water is clear and when I turn everything back on will it just stir up everything and make it cloudy again?
Right now there is not in the tank except the sand (no fish or anything).
Thanks in advance for all your help. I guess I am just getting impatient.
