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12-07-2005, 11:57 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: austin
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 |  needs some ideas on getting water crystal clear
I have a wet/dry Ehiem Professional canister, great for bio-filtrations not so good for mechanical fil. I have added carbon pads and filter floss, but the water isnt crystal clear like i feel it should be, there is some particulate that still floating around in tank. any ideas or additional filters i can run next to it or something? | 
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12-07-2005, 02:13 PM
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| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: May 2005 Location: Riverside, RI Age: 36
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Ozone is said to be good for water clarity
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12-07-2005, 03:40 PM
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| | Feather Duster
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Ozone is good for disolved organics that make the water yellow. For particulate, mechanical filtration is required. A skimmer would be a good investment. _________ -Mickey 175g Bowfront - 75g Refugium - 100g Sump - 3 Phoenix 14k 250W MH - AquaC EV240 Skimmer - 240lbs Haitian Live Rock - 4" DSB - Red Velvet Fairy Wrasse - Azure Damsel - Banggia Cardinal - Firefish Goby - Blackcap Basslet - Purple Tang - Powder Brown Tang - Regal Tang - Green Manderin - 2 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp - 2 Peppermint Shrimp - 2 Emerald Crabs - Rose BTA - Orange Linkia - Tuxedo Urchin - Spiney Urchin (hitchhiker) | |
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12-07-2005, 03:53 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: May 2005 Age: 38
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you have not told us much about your tank ie.. age, filtration, stocking, husbandry, size, substrate, etc..If it is a new set up you might be having a bacteria bloom | |
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12-07-2005, 07:55 PM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 26
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Have you considered using Pur-flo filter media? They come in regular, 100 micron and I believe 200 micron. That thing spiffy's my water!
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30g reef tank, CPR CY192 filter w/ DIY plumb running Rio 17HF return, Coralife 3x 9w UV Sterilizer, 3 24W T5-Helios 10K Daylights/3 24W T5-Helios Blue lights, 2 Logysis blue meteor light strobes (moonlights/24 Blue LEDs).
Tiger tail cuke, asst. snails/hermits, asst. feathers, rainbow acan,zoos,shrooms,bubble,galaxea, asst. shrimp, 2 ocellaris,mandarin,zebrasoma xanthurum,pink-spot watchman,red-striped pistol. | |
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12-08-2005, 03:32 AM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Kolkata - India
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I believe that your tank is relatively new and there are a lot of these fine particles from the substrate moving around. Feel that is normal.
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If it is old a bacterial bloom might occur. Just consider the snowstorm phenomenon also.
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12-08-2005, 05:24 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator |
Could it be small air bubbles?
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12-08-2005, 08:51 AM
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| | Gigas Clam
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Carpentersville, IL Age: 52
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+1 on the skimmer.
Hot Magnums or = with paper filters are also a quick fix for excessive particulate matter.
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12-08-2005, 10:40 AM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 26
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I agree with Jason, air bubbles will make your tank seem "foggy". When I first set-up my tank, I had crystal clear water in a day with the pure-flo filter. I suggest you get the 200 micron if your filter will permit, cuz it will really filter the hell out of the water. | |
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12-08-2005, 02:28 PM
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| | Plankton
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: austin
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I have a prismim skimmer and 80 lbs of live rock,in a 46 gallon bowfront. i have a leather thats good size, candy cane, polyps, couple heads of frogspawn, coral shirp, and pericala cloun and bubble. and a clam, in the tank, the bubbles are not so much a bother, i have turn the power head off and the and the skimmer off in the to see if either was causing it. the tank has been up about 5 months now.i hope this helps with more about the tank | |
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