andrecardoso
01/13/2014, 04:00 PM
Hi guys.
I've got really cloudy water, the tank is about 3 months old and was doing great.
Parameters are fine for a little while now (about 1.5 month).
150 L
Temp: 25ºC
Salinity: 1024
Ca: 460
Kh: 9/10
Ph: 8.2
Mg: 1300
No2: 0
No3: 0
Po4: 0
Lighting:
6x24w t5 ATI with electronic balasts
Skimmer:
Mce300
Water flow:
6025 and 6045 (minimum flow)
Reposition with R.O (0 TDS)
Weekly water changes: 12 liters
TM sea salt (the normal one)
Aragonite sugar size sand.
I though the water cloudiness was due to sugar sized sand (I cleaned it well before entering the tank though) however the cloudiness comes and goes. It changed the pump positioning about a month ago and it does not move a grain of sand (so it isn't due to the sand.
I do not add any Kalk (limewater) or any additive (don't have any reactor either). Have a cleaning crew and some acroporas and zoanthus, no fish yet.
My thought goes to the water reposition (freshwater). I do not have an auto top off; I do have a small pump connected to a timer and it delivers water to the main tank 4/5 times a day, 3/4 minutes each time - in the end of the hose it has a small faucet to control the flow. (I register the day's evaporation and adjust it "by trial and error") The pump sits in a bucket with R.O.
I had it turned of last week and when I turned it on 3 days ago, coincidence or not, the water became more and more cloudy.
My question is: Is it possible that the R.O. water (low kh and ph) that enters the main tank somehow reacts with the reef water (high kh and ph) and precipitates the Calcium? And then forms cloudy water?
I'm starting to lose my patience. :crazy1:
Thanks a lot guys.
:dance:
I've got really cloudy water, the tank is about 3 months old and was doing great.
Parameters are fine for a little while now (about 1.5 month).
150 L
Temp: 25ºC
Salinity: 1024
Ca: 460
Kh: 9/10
Ph: 8.2
Mg: 1300
No2: 0
No3: 0
Po4: 0
Lighting:
6x24w t5 ATI with electronic balasts
Skimmer:
Mce300
Water flow:
6025 and 6045 (minimum flow)
Reposition with R.O (0 TDS)
Weekly water changes: 12 liters
TM sea salt (the normal one)
Aragonite sugar size sand.
I though the water cloudiness was due to sugar sized sand (I cleaned it well before entering the tank though) however the cloudiness comes and goes. It changed the pump positioning about a month ago and it does not move a grain of sand (so it isn't due to the sand.
I do not add any Kalk (limewater) or any additive (don't have any reactor either). Have a cleaning crew and some acroporas and zoanthus, no fish yet.
My thought goes to the water reposition (freshwater). I do not have an auto top off; I do have a small pump connected to a timer and it delivers water to the main tank 4/5 times a day, 3/4 minutes each time - in the end of the hose it has a small faucet to control the flow. (I register the day's evaporation and adjust it "by trial and error") The pump sits in a bucket with R.O.
I had it turned of last week and when I turned it on 3 days ago, coincidence or not, the water became more and more cloudy.
My question is: Is it possible that the R.O. water (low kh and ph) that enters the main tank somehow reacts with the reef water (high kh and ph) and precipitates the Calcium? And then forms cloudy water?
I'm starting to lose my patience. :crazy1:
Thanks a lot guys.
:dance: