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[brandoncoelho30]

My reef tank is cloudy during the day and clear at night, ive checked all params and are all good, have 44 gallon tall pentagon tank about 35 lbs of rock and 30 lbs of live sand, a peppermint shrimp, coral banded shrimp, pajama cardinalfish, domino damsel, star polyps zoas flowerpots and idk this soft coral that looks like a tree but i cant figure out why my tank is cloudy during the day and clear as ever at night

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[firefly73]

water parameters? whats good?
lighting and duration?
age of tank?
filtration?
whats cloudy? 100% nnot able to see through or just a little

 

[firefly73]

1st guess algae bloom
2nd guess bacterial bloom
3rd guess precipitaion

 

[brandoncoelho30]

Salt 1.023
Calcium 430ppm
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10ppm
Dont know ph as of now

Tank stays at 76 give or take, led lighting not sure what module or brand, it was an old light i picked up from family member, 8 hours of blues and 6 hours of blues and whites together and at a percentage i would say about 65% tanks is probably about 4 months old now and filtration is a regular old hang on power filter and a reef octopus hang on protein skimmer

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[CStrickland]

Maybe it seems that way because at night you have a different configuration of light, so it's spotlighting stuff in the water? Especially if you're just running blues at night. Does the water stay cloudy if you turn on the lights in the room, or switch you tank lights to how they run in the day time?

If I run just blues in a dark room, I can see more stuff in the water, but it's there all the time.

 

[brandoncoelho30]

I turned the lights on at night the same as day to see if it was gone and it was and the next morning again cloudy when i woke up then clear and the same today

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[brandoncoelho30]

Any ideas on what it could be and how to fix it

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[firefly73]

you dont mention mg or alk. however if the ca stays constant doubtful its a preci avent.

algae would be higher in the arvo after a days exposure to light then reduce over night (doubt green water would be so reactive in 8hrs)

leaves bacterial bloom which maybe linked to higher disolved carbon overnight . try running a airstone over night and see if it still happens.