Help, My Tank's Been Cloudy Forever

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  1. Jake

    Jake Sea Dragon

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    Maybe a long shot, but how about doing a water change through dilute, wet skimmate? When I first started my tank and had a lot of fine particulates in the water column (I have a mud substrate) skimming very wet helped clean up the water column.
     
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  3. cj22009

    cj22009 Astrea Snail

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    Get an el cheapo UV David is right I run an cheap UV just for bacteria
     
  4. DavidinGA

    DavidinGA Fire Worm

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    Yeah I also skimmed wet; don't know if it helped but people told me to try it
     
  5. exactlyobp

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    Hey Servillius, what are you dosing right now? how often? It really looks bacterial bloom, any casualty due to this..?

    I converted from biopellets to zeo 45 days ago. I cut the BP in half on day one, took completely offline on the 22nd day.

    I was very nervous about the switch, so far so good.
     
  6. DavidinGA

    DavidinGA Fire Worm

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    Did you buy a uv sterilizer yet?
     
  7. Servillius

    Servillius Montipora Digitata

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    Not yet. Thanks to work it will have to be next week.
     
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  9. Servillius

    Servillius Montipora Digitata

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    I'd certainly be careful, but I wouldn't be worried. Even as I deal with this, the fact is my frags look amazing. I'm already quite attached to the system.

    Right now I have 1 bag Zeovit in a reactor with about 100gph flow. I'm dosing 2 drops Zeovit and 1 drop Zeofood every 3 days and about .2ml of Zeostart.

    On the Zeovit forum, they're recommending .8ml of ZeoStart and dosing some Coral Snow but otherwise keeping that the same. No one there has any idea why I'm cloudy either.
     
  10. Todd_Sails

    Todd_Sails Giant Squid

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    The Zeovit? Just saying
     
  11. exactlyobp

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    Oh Im being very cautious, observing, but not worried anymore. Sounds like you have about NET 100 gallon~ water volume in the system, which is about the same as mine. I have 900ml ish Zeolite in the reactor.

    Here's my dosing schedule:
    ZEOstart3 0.4ml x2 /day
    SpongePower 4 drops /day
    ZEObak 4 drops /two days
    Pohl's Xtra Special 4ml/two days

    I still think (well, i know) that its bacterial bloom caused by imbalance due to the zeovit introduction, changing stuff around. You're gonna have to wait till it evens out, since its been only a week since you took biopellets offline and the tanks is very young. 

    PS: Im on the ZEO forum too, Ill go take a look there too :)
     
  12. Servillius

    Servillius Montipora Digitata

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    I'm exploring a new theory. When the bloom gets really heavy, it's slightly green. Could it be algae?

    That would fit with its getting denser during the light period. I also think algae might be harder to skim.

    If this is not bacteria, it might make more sense. Any thoughts?