So my tank is 3mon old. The tank cycled @1mon and everything was looking good. I added 4 small zoa colonies and have a flame hawk, 2 black ice clowns and about 15 small trochus snails (120g) over the past 2 months. I have all base rock and no live rock. I got the diatom bloom early on that still hasn't fully gone away yet. My current readings are:
0 ammonia
0 nitrites
3 nitrates
420 calc
8 alk
1260 mag
0 phos
34.4ppt
8.24 pH
78.5 temp
My water has been crystal clear but since about a week ago the water started to get cloudy and I had an increase in brown stuff on the sand/rocks that looks like silt. Also I started to notice a ton of small white "bugs" everywhere on the glass (pods?). I've turned off my Kessils during the day (just DIY LED's come on now) and started using a 200micron felt sock (vice the mesh) and have been changing every other day but the water still is cloudy and doesn't seem to be getting any better and there's an increase of what looks like silt on everything. I have a Reef Octo XPS1000 that doesn't really pull anything but after talking to CoralVue they say it's because of such low bio-load right now. I also have been using Ecobak Plus bio-pellets from day one. I also have continuous water changes via a Apex DOS. Pics are the silt in my sump and on the rocks. Any idea what is going on or what I'm doing wrong? Just not sure what's going on cause the water was so crystal clear for the past 3mom and then now it's soo cloudy and hasn't cleared up.
0 ammonia
0 nitrites
3 nitrates
420 calc
8 alk
1260 mag
0 phos
34.4ppt
8.24 pH
78.5 temp
My water has been crystal clear but since about a week ago the water started to get cloudy and I had an increase in brown stuff on the sand/rocks that looks like silt. Also I started to notice a ton of small white "bugs" everywhere on the glass (pods?). I've turned off my Kessils during the day (just DIY LED's come on now) and started using a 200micron felt sock (vice the mesh) and have been changing every other day but the water still is cloudy and doesn't seem to be getting any better and there's an increase of what looks like silt on everything. I have a Reef Octo XPS1000 that doesn't really pull anything but after talking to CoralVue they say it's because of such low bio-load right now. I also have been using Ecobak Plus bio-pellets from day one. I also have continuous water changes via a Apex DOS. Pics are the silt in my sump and on the rocks. Any idea what is going on or what I'm doing wrong? Just not sure what's going on cause the water was so crystal clear for the past 3mom and then now it's soo cloudy and hasn't cleared up.