Ok I am at my wits end, I have to be missing something and just can't figure out what is going on.
I have a haze on my 150 gallon tank that just won't go away, it's been there about a month now and it has come and gone in intensity over the weeks. I have been operating on the assumption it's a bacterial bloom as the tank is about 3 months old or so. I got fed up waiting on it (more like I got tired of my wife complaining about it), bought a water clarifier yesterday dosed it, and have been running carbon as well for the last 24 hours and the haze is only marginally better.
So I'm looking for other explanations or ideas. I test ALK daily and running the triton method (I'm not opposed to water changing this away). Looking at my logs the haze showed up around the time my ALK demand essentially stopped, ALK is currently at 9.0 (PH is 8.17 at the moment) and I'm dosing only 1 ML a day of the original triton elements. I had been dosing around 25 ML a day until the ALK was trending higher then I started dialing it back.
I don't want to just start trying different solutions to see what works. Fish are happy, CUC is happy, corals (only a couple SPS frags) are not angry but not happy.... I had attributed that to the lessened light penetration, but maybe I'm wrong.
Any ideas?
I have a haze on my 150 gallon tank that just won't go away, it's been there about a month now and it has come and gone in intensity over the weeks. I have been operating on the assumption it's a bacterial bloom as the tank is about 3 months old or so. I got fed up waiting on it (more like I got tired of my wife complaining about it), bought a water clarifier yesterday dosed it, and have been running carbon as well for the last 24 hours and the haze is only marginally better.
So I'm looking for other explanations or ideas. I test ALK daily and running the triton method (I'm not opposed to water changing this away). Looking at my logs the haze showed up around the time my ALK demand essentially stopped, ALK is currently at 9.0 (PH is 8.17 at the moment) and I'm dosing only 1 ML a day of the original triton elements. I had been dosing around 25 ML a day until the ALK was trending higher then I started dialing it back.
I don't want to just start trying different solutions to see what works. Fish are happy, CUC is happy, corals (only a couple SPS frags) are not angry but not happy.... I had attributed that to the lessened light penetration, but maybe I'm wrong.
Any ideas?