Yet another cloudy water thread

[BryanM]

For those that might have followed along, I did a tank swap about a month ago, from RedSea to Waterbox, and increased the size of the tank (WB infinia 230.6, 220 gallons total, 167 DT).

It as cabisea crushed coral for the substrate, and even after all of the dust/silt/etc settled out from the initial fill, the tank has been cloudy the entire time. I've read tons of threads that its likely a bacteria bloom, to leave it alone, increase flow, etc.

Sump-> tank turnover 3x, using the WB 7" filter socks, also running a Santa Monica turf scrubber, but its not close to being 100% operational yet, only 3 weeks old maybe?. DT tank turnover via 2 IceCap 2k gyres is approx 20x.

Latest paramters:

Salinity 35 ppt
PH 8.19
Alk 7.65 (slowly raising to 9)
Tmp 78.3
Nitrate 20 ppm
Phosphate .24

3-4 days ago I set up dosing for MicroBacter7, NeoNitro, and NeoPhos. Prior to that my tank had no nutrients and I had a big dino problem... I still have dinos I think, but they are greatly reduced. Due to an error on my part the Microbacter7 and NeoNitro bottles were both dosed completely in 24hrs.

I also started running activated carbon.

Generally I feed TDO Chroma flakes once a day, and mysis+benepets at night, target fed to corals.

I'm kind of at a loss as to what to try next, the two things I've read that seem to be possibilities are either UV or Coral Snow.

 

[Dan_P]

For those that might have followed along, I did a tank swap about a month ago, from RedSea to Waterbox, and increased the size of the tank (WB infinia 230.6, 220 gallons total, 167 DT).

It as cabisea crushed coral for the substrate, and even after all of the dust/silt/etc settled out from the initial fill, the tank has been cloudy the entire time. I've read tons of threads that its likely a bacteria bloom, to leave it alone, increase flow, etc.

Sump-> tank turnover 3x, using the WB 7" filter socks, also running a Santa Monica turf scrubber, but its not close to being 100% operational yet, only 3 weeks old maybe?. DT tank turnover via 2 IceCap 2k gyres is approx 20x.

Latest paramters:

Salinity 35 ppt
PH 8.19
Alk 7.65 (slowly raising to 9)
Tmp 78.3
Nitrate 20 ppm
Phosphate .24

3-4 days ago I set up dosing for MicroBacter7, NeoNitro, and NeoPhos. Prior to that my tank had no nutrients and I had a big dino problem... I still have dinos I think, but they are greatly reduced. Due to an error on my part the Microbacter7 and NeoNitro bottles were both dosed completely in 24hrs.

I also started running activated carbon.

Generally I feed TDO Chroma flakes once a day, and mysis+benepets at night, target fed to corals.

I'm kind of at a loss as to what to try next, the two things I've read that seem to be possibilities are either UV or Coral Snow.

Better to think of the haziness as a microorganism bloom which could micro algae. It is an extremely bright environment with abundant fertilizer.

The picture of the system suggests to me that the problem is cosmetic and you could work on not obsessing over it. If you can’t sleep at nights because of hazy water, UV and/or coral snow (powdered CaCO3) seem reasonable.

 

[Reef.]

Are you still dosing phos+nitrate?

 

[BryanM]

Are you still dosing phos+nitrate?

Nope, but it was like this prior to dosing too.

 

[Reef.]

Doesn’t look cloudy?

I would only add a UV if you were going to add one anyway.

I would leave the tank alone, if you have a good manual filter, either a roller or very fine filter sock, then its probably is a bacteria bloom which will take care of it self.

Changing the carbon weekly and stopping adding coral food will help with reducing any food for the bacteria.

Some things don't need a lot of intervention, regular water changes and good maintenance will sort it out…it might seem like a big mystery what it is but probably its as simple as either your mechanical filter is not taking out all the silt or its a bloom that time and good maintenance will fix.

 

[Idech]

Dosing a lot of Microbacter has caused cloudiness in my mature tank so I can only imagine in a new tank.

You probably made it worse by overdosing. I would just give it time. It looks really nice and I can’t even see the cloudiness, honestly.

 

[Lavey29]

Plus MB7 reduces nutrients so if you use to much of it you bottom out your nutrients again. Reduce your white light and the bloom will go away.

 

[BryanM]

Doesn’t look cloudy?

I would only add a UV if you were going to add one anyway.

I would leave the tank alone, if you have a good manual filter, either a roller or very fine filter sock, then its probably is a bacteria bloom which will take care of it self.

Changing the carbon weekly and stopping adding coral food will help with reducing any food for the bacteria.

Some things don't need a lot of intervention, regular water changes and good maintenance will sort it out…it might seem like a big mystery what it is but probably its as simple as either your mechanical filter is not taking out all the silt or its a bloom that time and good maintenance will fix.

I'm leaning towards getting a UV for this, as well as future issues that they are good for, but I have no intent of running a UV 24x7x365.

It looks worse in person than in the pic, and I will agree with the first responder, it is cosmetic, but before I did this tank swap I had crystal clear water, and I just want that again.

White lights are only at 5% right now. Blues are at 80%.

The only thing not normal in teh tank right now is the goni. I'm hoping its not extending due to just getting used to the new nutrients in the tank. its just balled up tight.