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Hi everyone,
I sent up a new 75 gallon sumpless tank. This was in the first few days of December and used dry sand and dry marco rock in a negative space style aquascape similar to what was seen on BRS and tidal gardens (only not as nice as there's look). I use RODI water and the HW brand salt. I know that the cycle does not need to be at 1.025 however I figured I might as well get everything used to that so I cycled the tank at 1.025 salinity and I seeded with bright well XLM and used the ammonia drops. I have salifert brand ammonia and nitrate test kits and it did take about 3 weeks for ammonia to go into the undetectable range. Nitrates usually peak somewhere around 10 and since I don't have any coral in this tank I'm not too concerned with getting that number down right now.
After a month I put in two clownfish and about a month later I put in five small mollies which I acclimated to saltwater and a few turbo snails as I had some algae growing on the glass just from the room light. Ammonia is still zero and nitrates are around 10. I have orphek LED bars however I have not turned them on yet. I have a tunze 9012 skimmer and a tunze comline filter that I use filter floss with. I changed the floss out about every week or maybe two times a week, again nitrates are around 10.
So, as the title suggests my water has been cloudy since day one. I feed twice a day of frozen mysis shrimp and I put either an algae wafer or maybe a two square inch piece of nori on a rock every two or three days. The snails are usually on the glass so I feel they have enough to eat. Nothing's died in my tank so I really can't figure out why the water has been this cloudy this long. I've had cloudy water before but 11 weeks seems a bit long to me.I can see through the 18-in front to back but if I look through the tank long ways over the 48-in I cannot see the other side.
I'm imagining this is just a bacterial bloom but this is also the reason I haven't turned my lights on yet. I have done 10 gallon water changes (two five gallon buckets) every Saturday, although I believe I did miss one Saturday. Any suggestions or should I just leave it alone to play out? I know a UV would fix the cloudy water but I'm worried about the cause of this
I sent up a new 75 gallon sumpless tank. This was in the first few days of December and used dry sand and dry marco rock in a negative space style aquascape similar to what was seen on BRS and tidal gardens (only not as nice as there's look). I use RODI water and the HW brand salt. I know that the cycle does not need to be at 1.025 however I figured I might as well get everything used to that so I cycled the tank at 1.025 salinity and I seeded with bright well XLM and used the ammonia drops. I have salifert brand ammonia and nitrate test kits and it did take about 3 weeks for ammonia to go into the undetectable range. Nitrates usually peak somewhere around 10 and since I don't have any coral in this tank I'm not too concerned with getting that number down right now.
After a month I put in two clownfish and about a month later I put in five small mollies which I acclimated to saltwater and a few turbo snails as I had some algae growing on the glass just from the room light. Ammonia is still zero and nitrates are around 10. I have orphek LED bars however I have not turned them on yet. I have a tunze 9012 skimmer and a tunze comline filter that I use filter floss with. I changed the floss out about every week or maybe two times a week, again nitrates are around 10.
So, as the title suggests my water has been cloudy since day one. I feed twice a day of frozen mysis shrimp and I put either an algae wafer or maybe a two square inch piece of nori on a rock every two or three days. The snails are usually on the glass so I feel they have enough to eat. Nothing's died in my tank so I really can't figure out why the water has been this cloudy this long. I've had cloudy water before but 11 weeks seems a bit long to me.I can see through the 18-in front to back but if I look through the tank long ways over the 48-in I cannot see the other side.
I'm imagining this is just a bacterial bloom but this is also the reason I haven't turned my lights on yet. I have done 10 gallon water changes (two five gallon buckets) every Saturday, although I believe I did miss one Saturday. Any suggestions or should I just leave it alone to play out? I know a UV would fix the cloudy water but I'm worried about the cause of this