 Re: The new board for newbies!
Hi Everyone I just set up my tank last week I have a 75 Gal I want to set up as a Reef tank, I have 200lbs About 4"s deep of SouthDown sand, I am using Oceanic Natural Sea Salt Mix, For Lighting I have a CustomSeaLife PC-Moon-lite with 2 65 Watt 10,000K bulbs and 2 65Watt Ultra-Actinic's with 4 moon lights, For Filtration I am using a trickle filter with a 500gph pump, a Berlin turbo Skimmer, and a Angstrom 2537 8 watt UV filter. only have 25lbs LR so far my question is my water is fogy I have added charcoal to the top of the trickle filter and I put some in the overflow it has been in there for 3 days and I don't see much of a change. The thing is I have been doing a lot of reading on this form and research on the web and Most people recommend not to rinse the sand before adding it to the tank ( So I didn't) *I used RO+DI *water from my * 6 STAGE RO+DI *100 GPD WATER FILTER and I pored it in on top of a plate so I would not disturb the sand that much. do you think that not rinsing the sand may be what is causing the fogy water? And if so how long do you think it will take to clear up?
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