Sudden "Cloudiness" to my Water

[kapoofta]

Hi all, I have a problem with my water. Thursday night my water looked great, then all of a sudden when I got home from work Friday my water suddenly became extremely cloudy. I checked all my water parameters and everything seems normal from when I tested last weekend. The only thing that changed slightly was my PH from 8.2 last week to 8.0 yesterday. All of my fish and coral are doing well and nothing has died that I can find. When I get up close and really look at the water I can kind of see floating white powder almost like salt that hasn't been mixed very well.

I have done two large water changes yesterday and today and it doesn't seem to be helping. I was wondering if anyone can tell me what my problem is and how to fix it.

Thanks everyone for the help, Kevin

This weeks water parameters:
Salinity: 1.025
PH: 8.0
Ammonia: 0ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 5ppm
Phosphate 0ppm
Calcium: 450ppm
Alk: 9dkh

 

[vhuang168]

What is your mg level?


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[kapoofta]

what is your mg level?


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1350

 

[vhuang168]

You may need to raise it if you are seeing precipitation.


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[kapoofta]

ok, I can give that a try. Thanks.

Is there any particular level I should be raising it to? or just slowly until it starts clearing

 

[Reef Dude]

If your measurements are correct, your levels look really good. I'm not sure what else to say.... Sorry. I wouldn't' raise mg since it's already at a good level. Sounds like precipitation (rather than bacteria or otherwise) based on your description, but I'm not sure why this would be happening since your levels are in check. I'll wait for others to chime in.

 

[AlSimmons]

Aside from the cloudy water how does everything look? If all is well I would just wait it out. Your Magnesium is supposed to be about three times your calcium in which you have, so I'm not sure why your seeing precipitate.

 

[kapoofta]

Aside from the cloudy water how does everything look? If all is well I would just wait it out. Your Magnesium is supposed to be about three times your calcium in which you have, so I'm not sure why your seeing precipitate.

everything appears ok. All of my fish are acting normal, eating, etc. My Kenyan Tree coral has been a bit droopy the last few days but I have seen him do that before and he always comes back.

I have changed out some filter media last weekend but other then that I have just added a little RODI fresh water to keep my salinity in check and the normal food that I have always used.