Crystal clear water.........
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Mr D smack
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Patience and carbon :thumbsup:
Koddie Doo
Czar of All ThingsAwesome
I found I did not have enough flow when I started my tank. I was getting cloudy white water from a bacteria bloom. Increased the flow and added carbon and couple days later clear as could be. I think it was tied to the cycle as well as I had waited a month or so before adding the extra flow.
Schplitter
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Give it a year.
kegogut
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Good advice.
Wyze
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Wyze
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smoothdog
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I'd go batsh!t crazy if it took a year for a cloudy tank to clear up. Are you sure it's particulates and not micro bubbles? Turn off all pumps for 15 min and watch the tank. If everything settles to the bottom and creates a "dust" on the rock then it's particulates and needs to be filtered/skimmed out, if the "particles" rise to the surface it's microbubbles. If neither happens then it's likely a bacterial or algal bloom and will need to be ridden out or dealt with with water quality improvements.
Wyze
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Who are you telling, I was like a year huh, ok.......
Lmao
I'm sure it's not micro bubbles.... When the pumps are off I can see it settles to the bottom..........
Algae bloom is highly possible being I had a small diatoms outbreak and it went away pretty fast and the tank is still new........
Koddie Doo
Czar of All ThingsAwesome
I think what he means by this post is that in your build thread you started this tank in the end of January. I assume it is a little sarcastic. But I'm not sure if there is a font for sarcastic.
dabob79
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I had a lot of crap up in the water column too, but I think mine was too much flow. Between my return, the MP40 running at 65%, and an RW8 in the opposite corner, I think I was probably pushing 4000+ gph around in the tank. I dropped the MP40 to 45% max, and dropped the RW8 down a notch, and the water is much clearer, with still plenty of flow. I think a lot of it might have been sand lol
Schplitter
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Schplitter
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My point was to give it some time. It takes time for things to settle out if it's truly particles of some kind. You rearranged things, moved thing, changed flow patterns and so forth. All of that will cause stuff to come out of the rocks and sand an everything. It takes time.
pastellaraymond
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Poly filter for a day
Scubareefman
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I feel you man, my new system has micro bubble like crazy, but it could be worse. I'll fix it at some point but its not hurting anything atm.
Flippers4pups
Home made abyss
I wouldn't rule out Bactrial causing the cloudiness. GAC in a reactor and filter socks. All else fails, slap a UV sterilizer on it.
I had the ups and downs with water clarity on my tank since last June. Algae blooms and Bactrial blooms would come and go and reoccur like clock work. Tried everything, GAC, GFO, larger water changes.....etc.
Then I went last resort a month a go and placed a UV on my manifold. Within a week I had crystal clear water and it's been that way since.
There's divided groups on the use of UV in the hobby, but most of the arguments are centered on parasites and not on water clarity.
Most that haven't used a UV ( I used one back in the nineties) will tell you that the tank will eventually balance its self out and clear on its own. True, it may.
But a UV will keep the water column clear. Jmtcw
I had the ups and downs with water clarity on my tank since last June. Algae blooms and Bactrial blooms would come and go and reoccur like clock work. Tried everything, GAC, GFO, larger water changes.....etc.
Then I went last resort a month a go and placed a UV on my manifold. Within a week I had crystal clear water and it's been that way since.
There's divided groups on the use of UV in the hobby, but most of the arguments are centered on parasites and not on water clarity.
Most that haven't used a UV ( I used one back in the nineties) will tell you that the tank will eventually balance its self out and clear on its own. True, it may.
But a UV will keep the water column clear. Jmtcw
