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Oxydator for the win!!I run an oxydator on each of my tanks and the water is always crystal clear.
Yes1. Would you consider your aquarium water to be "Crystal Clear?"
Carbon/Oxydator/Water changes2. What are the best ways to keep your water consistently clear?
1. Maintain proper water parameters and biweekly WC and daily topoffs.Ever see those reef aquariums where it looks like there isn't any water in the tank? How in the world do people get their aquariums so CRYSTAL CLEAR? Like there's no water at all in there! Let's talk about that today.
1. Would you consider your aquarium water to be "Crystal Clear?"
2. What are the best ways to keep your water consistently clear?
image via @Marco A. Martins
Yes it is crystal clear except for some copepods stuck to the glass1. Maintain proper water parameters and biweekly WC and daily topoffs.
2. Good quality filter floss and 100 micron filter media to polish the water. And lots of copepods and feed them. Lastly strong flow from return pump that circulate it about 18x an hour.
I avoid chemicals unless absolutely necessary.
The tank is in my bedroom and I have no fish room. Don't really think about air exchange or aeration as I have a skimmer with a co2 scrubber, the wave makers agitating and breaking the surface really well all combine to keep the tank aerated plenty. Its all a very simple setup as you can see in this pic. Just want to add that I haven't done a water change in 4.5 years.Incredible reef. Curious if you have dedicated fish room and what you do for air exchange if anything? Humidity and C02 levels if known?
Very nice sir!
Once that goby sifts through all the sand and those particles skim out it will be back to clear. Just a bit of waiting.I did until I added a diamond goby.
My front glass is 3/4" low iron.
100 micron filter socks.
UV Filter
Carbon
i think filter socks is the biggest thing that does it. Carbon for any yellowing. UV to kill floating things and prevent blooms.
Sometimes when the fish are up close to the front and I'm looking at the right angle, it's almost like there is no glass or anything and like they are actually out of the tank.
But since I added a diamond goby....well there are always particles of sand floating around.