Need advice on water Cleaning/Polishing.

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Originally Posted by Glennrf38

Hello all I have a 27X24X24 cubish tank and everything seems to be doing well but if I look closly, I can see fine particulates in the water so I know my water clarity is not what I would like it to be. I have a felt bag over the outlet to my sump which seems to trap a lot of the detrius. I can't afford a RO/DI unit yet. How does everyone get such beautifully clear water?


TIA

Glenn

Super clear water is a lot of hard work sometimes. My diatom filter( when i don't let it get plugged up and overflow like this morning) works wonders, i went from milky white (new sand, went SSB) to mostly clear in about 6 hours. My problem is a bad design on the refugium on my part and the sand gets out into the water column. I will drain it and shop vac the sand out later. Do you see any crud floating in the sump? if so it gets shot out of the return. I know a few people that put filter socks on their return outlets for a bit. Purigen if you foolow the instructions and are not using anything that causes it to go toxic works very well.