Added Sand - Cloudy; Specific Gravity VERY High

[Glenner’sreef]

Sorry about the duplicate message, I thought the first was deleted. :]

 

[drcrook]

Hey Folks. Woke up this morning and perfect clear wonderful water. Here is what I did:

1. The sand bags came with a pouch of clarifier each. I added 3 of those little packets (about 50% of what it came with).
2. Kept my powerheads, returns, skimmer, everything running.
a. My filter socks caught a lot of stuff. I cleaned them probably 4 times at various intervals as I had breaks during the day (I work from home).
b. My skimmer was tuned to push more than it should; it actually did a good job of removing extremely "milky" water. I drained that into a bucket the whole time.
c. I kept my power heads on because I added a dead shrimp to kickstart my cycle and didn't want it to stink.

Here are some before and after pictures.

Yesterday; probably around mid-day. This picture it has already cleared up significantly from the morning.

This morning:

Also; my PH levels are reading perfect now that the water is cleared. Thanks for everybody's responses. Ya'll are very helpful.