Cloudy Water Ideas

[ruslicus]

I was going lights 8pm to 8am only. But I have removed and just left chaeto. I changed water about 10% second time. I will check Alk, CA and PH today and see if it clears out. Should I keep feeding fish or better to have 2 days diet just to reestablish the tank?

[Proteus]

What's your total livestock.
I ask because 2 years ago I watched a urchin spawn making the water cloudy.

[ruslicus]

I have
2 Anthias Bartletts
2 Clowns (coupe of months old)
1 Poweder Blue Tand (still baby)
1 Firefish
1 Yellowtail Damsel
2 Herliquin Shrimps (man they growing so fast eating my CC star fish)
2 Pepermint shrimps
1 Blue leg crab
1 Emerlad Crab
Turbo snails few, I've notice recently lots of small snails in DT and sump
As of coral I have:
4 frags of SPS
Hummer, Frogspawn, Torch
Eegance
Zoas, 2 frags of acans
2 frags of Blasto
Open brain
Riccordea
mushrooms
Gorgonia

Pretty much this list in 70g DT with 20-25g sump

[Proteus]

Running three nutrient export systems could be fighting each other.
Pellets being a carbon source will remove both no3 and po4. Along with gfo you could starve your macro cause it to deteriorate adding back to the system. Though I have no experience with pellets I believe to much to fast strips the water to quick.
I would pick one or the other for nutrient export either macro and gfo or carbon

If you choose to go the Biopellets Route. Consider this

I run prodibio a form of carbon dosing. While I also ran gfo I was never happy with tank. I was cleaning tank more than I would have liked. I stopped running gfo. One week after stopping gfo. I had a algae bloom I cleaned it all up and from there on after the system balanced out and I have no nutrients. I clean my glass weekly. I also filled my reactor with hydroton since I no longer use gfo.
Just so you know I run a sps and clam garden

Good luck

[ruslicus]

Thank you Titus. As far as I know BioPellets is removing NO3 and not PO4. GFO removes PO4. I am running refugium and BioBellets for short time, as I was witing for Pellets to kick off. These 2 are overlaping - agree, but I plan to remove Refugium from my system and have just Pellets and GFO with Carbon, Pellets are skimmed. Kein can chime on this as he is more professional.

[Proteus]

IMO carbon and gfo don't work together. Its a balance for the bacteria to remove both no3 and po4. And with gfo stripping the po4 first the bacteria never really acomplish its job.

Biopellets does remove po4. But you need a balanced ratio. Po4 will take longer but once the ratio is balanced out they will both drop. If you don't have a balance the the bacteria could stall not removing its potential

But ask kien

[ruslicus]

Originally Posted by Titus99

IMO carbon and gfo don't work together. Its a balance for the bacteria to remove both no3 and po4. And with gfo stripping the po4 first the bacteria never really acomplish its job.

Biopellets does remove po4. But you need a balanced ratio. Po4 will take longer but once the ratio is balanced out they will both drop. If you don't have a balance the the bacteria could stall not removing its potential

But ask kien

So your recommendation is to remove GFO and refugium, and leave BioPellets and Carbon with Skimmer? My intention was to shut down the refugium after 2 months once BioPellets will kick off. Should I feed heavily?

[ruslicus]

ok. Lights ar on and I took some pictures. Actually looks a bit better - not so cloudy today:



Upset Green Pocci:


Lost color Acro:


Red Planet RTN:


What would be best approach to save these frags?