 Re: Cloudy water from sand.
personally when i had this happen on my first tank (eclipse 12) I bought a big bag of I think it was cotton padding like you would stuff a pillow with and put that in my eclipse filter location and took out the carbon filter...so that it would catch as much of the junk as possible as the first day totally clogged up my brand new eclipse filter...so with this cotton I was able to change it often till the water was nice and clear..then I put the eclipse filter back in.
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46gal Oceanic BF, 80lbs LR 2Lbs LS, 2 true percula, 1 six lined wrasse, 1 powder blue tang, crocea clam, green star polyps, torch coral, purple mushrooms, RBTA, Purple Condy, Nudibranch (Chromodoris lochi), Arrow Crab, 2 Peppermint Shrimp, Cleaner Shrimp, blood red fire shrimp, 10 nassarius snails, 8 margarita snails, 5 crown top snails, 12 burgundy, scarlet and blue legged hermits. 15H sump/refugium 2lb LR and ball-o-cheatomorpha. | 
