water seems cloudy?

[theyangman]

So over the past few days I have noticed my water clarity somewhat cloudy. Like it isn't bad, but it isn't pristine clear like it usually is. It has a slight haze to it. I thought it would go away after a day or so but it has stuck around. What could it be? I use filter socks on my returns.... I haven't changed a single thing when this came around.... everything seems normal otherwise. No algae or anything building up anywhere.... Mysterious for sure.

Thoughts?

 

[Salty Cracker]

you run filter socks?

 

[TORX]

What doesn't he run on this tank is the shorter answer. Let the tank do what it needs to. Then tackle the next thing and be patient.

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[Poseidon]

any chance your alk accidently overdosed?

 

[theyangman]

any chance your alk accidently overdosed?

Nope. I have not changed a single thing this week.... lol

 

[theyangman]

What doesn't he run on this tank is the shorter answer. Let the tank do what it needs to. Then tackle the next thing and be patient.

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Imagine the fire sale when I get out of this hobby. lol.

 

[reeffreak]

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What doesn't he run on this tank is the shorter answer. Let the tank do what it needs to. Then tackle the next thing and be patient.

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Imagine the fire sale when I get out of this hobby. lol.
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PM me first lol

 

[jroovers]

Likely a bacterial bloom

 

[Pistol]

+1 bacteria, are u carbon dosing?

 

[TORX]

I must say that your outlook on this hobby is bothersome.  Despite advice to go slow by the pros on this site,  you are stil just hammering through,  buying up rare and expensive live stock and not caring about killing it all off. Joking about a fire sale is absurd.  You need to stop buying livestock for your tank and let it settle down. You said that yourself a few days ago in a thread,  but now you are fighting over some frags from bigshow for when you go there this weekend. Sorry for the rant,  but I love this hobby and the life in the tank and watching you piss it away because you have the money to do so bothers me.

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[TORX]

It most likely is a bacteria or algea bloom that all young tanks go through. Just stop and let your tank settle down

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[nexusnight]

+1 on bacterial bloom. Also if ur carbon is exhausted some can dump what's been absorbed back into the water column. Also with all the new sps u've been adding they will all slime and do their thing until they settle in. This can cause problems when u add a lot all at once.


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[Jewel]

Go slow, These systems are a long term process. Make an addition and wait a month. I know its hard but you've got to be patient.

 

[theyangman]

I must say that your outlook on this hobby is bothersome.  Despite advice to go slow by the pros on this site,  you are stil just hammering through,  buying up rare and expensive live stock and not caring about killing it all off. Joking about a fire sale is absurd.  You need to stop buying livestock for your tank and let it settle down. You said that yourself a few days ago in a thread,  but now you are fighting over some frags from bigshow for when you go there this weekend. Sorry for the rant,  but I love this hobby and the life in the tank and watching you piss it away because you have the money to do so bothers me.

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Quite frankly what I buy with my money seems to be my business alone. If I feel that I want to add something so it gives me a week of enjoyment that's my prerogative. You don't need to understand my thought process or even like it for that matter. That is what makes us humans, we are different. If we were all cookie cutters of one another then what the hell would be the point of life. Yes, perhaps I have more disposable income then the average person, I earned it, I made the strides in my life to get to where I am. Bottom line I worked hard for everything I have. Therefore, I deserve to set it on fire if I so choose. Why it bugs you beats the hell out of me really. I don't care what Bill Gates does with his money, or what new car Lil Wayne decides to buy. Their life, their choices. Throw your money at the toilet and watch how little I will care, so why rant on me for what I do with mine? I am extremely impulsive, and I am sure any of the people who I have visited for coral runs can attest to that fact quite clearly. If it looks good and I want it, I buy it. Plain and simple. I don't mean to be braggy, but it's my money and I'll spend it how I choose.

The fire sale comment is also my choice. Why is it absurd? If I want out of this hobby at any time I can pretty much guarantee you I am taking the first halfway decent offer that crosses my inbox. I don't care to haggle for the extra 10 or 20% so I can come lessen my losses and whatnot. My time is worth more to me than that so out it goes when I am done.

 

[theyangman]

My carbon is actually been replenished as well as my GFO earlier this week. I switched to Jerry's High Cap GFO, carbon stayed the same as the previous cycles.

What could have caused an algae bloom?

 

[TORX]

Thank you for proving my point. I appreciate the clarity. You do deserve the right to destroy corals that are so rare, most are now being governed by the EPA. You enjoy that right.

As for your issues. Nothing caused it other then the fact that it is normal. Much like people have been advising you for the last few weeks. Stop doing what you are doing and wait it out. Your tank is still new and all this is normal. 

 

[nexusnight]

It's also not the fact that ur spending ur money the way u want to rather that this hobby does involve live animals and to toss something in ur tank that cannot successfully support it long term is what's disturbing. Many rare species are rare for a reason. Corals are in essence animals as much as the fish are as I'm sure u know. Just be patient slow down and the end results will be gratifying. He'll if u need to rush so bad to enjoy it take up race car driving as ull dump enough money into this hobby.... Then sell me ur rare corals and gear lol.
I'm not trying to be a dick by any means but when ur dealing with all types of livestock that hits a nerve for most if not all of us.


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[AdInfinitum]

...back to the cloudy water...

You have been running pellets for a few weeks and doing some playing to get the reactor working the way that you want, so it's likely that the bacterial colony in the pellets is starting to take off and in the case of a tank with a lot of nutrients in the water column, like yours, for the initial period that colony will follow the nutrients into the general water column.

Like everyone says...a little patience...the bacteria have a very short life cycle and will exhaust the nutrients in a few days and settle back into the reactor only.  The corals pods and other filter feeders will feast on bacteria and so long as the water remains well oxygenated nothing will be harmed and it will pass.  Cutting back on the food going in to the tank for a few days won't hurt and definitely no extra feeding for corals will be required for this period.

BTW Vegas is running an over/under line on a bacteria's life cycle versus your attention span... 

 

[Duke]

There really isn't much to it.. Why not start with the basics.. You have the hardware, and equipment. Stop dosing shit, no bio additives.. Stop changing stuff, your running bio pellets for nitrates, gfo for phosphates and carbon if u choose you want to do that. You don't need and shouldn't be dosing cal alk or mag yet, you have nothing requiring that. So put that doser on standby. Feed your fish food once a day and start enjoying the tank.. Add some big Lps like torch and hammers for now.. If u do that, the tank will take care of the rest. If u keep f'ing with stuff, your going to get frustrated and your tank is going to such until u give up and then everyone will swarm your tank for sale thread and low ball u for your hardware.. As u slowly fade away to the forum archives..

Ps Torx is right, killing off endangered and rare coral left and right is hard to watch, there's already enough strain on the coral reefs from polution, global warming, and this hobby. Do your part and respect your little piece of the reef, cause u sir are truly luck to have it.

 

[unibob]

Tbh most of what he has lost has been aquacultured frags from hobbiests. So to go as far as saying he's killing the ocean is a bit much.

We are truly lucky to have access to such a wide variety of frags from each others tanks.

Patience is key.

3,2,1 FIGHT. I think we need to all play mortal combat!