changed equipment water quality issues

Groovyg

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ok guys got a 90gallon been running cansister fliters on new setup for 3 weeks decides to switch to fuge sump. seeming over night tank clouded up did a 10% water change still cloudy what going on here. water was clear and all within parameters before i started got up this morning very cloudy of course had to get to work so have not rechecked parameters but assuming there still go also did not stir up the tank at all with the swap running tidal75 as a backup for the tank tna.
 

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Probably a bacteria bloom. Adding a sump increases volume and adding a fuge promotes more areas for bacteria to repopulate. Just monitor nitrate and ammonia but it shouldn’t hurt anything. It will clear up over time but you can also try adding carbon
 

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