Cloudy Water

[Pinkfish]

Hi everyone

Im back from holiday, have a problem with the water being extreamly cloudy, Water Parameters are all fine just cloudy water.

Do I need to get a bag of carbon and place it into my sump ??

Thanks
Mike

[subz88]

Can you tell if it's just finely suspended particles causing the cloudiness or does the water look milky?

Reason I ask is if it's just particulate matter, you could add some filter mat to your weir or at a suitable location in the sump to strain it out.

If it's milky, then the root cause could be a bacterial bloom and you might need to schedule a few water changes into the next couple of weeks. OR something in the tank might have spawned. Do you have any livestock that could account for this?

[Blue]

Nice 1 subz, you've got it covered.
Regards

[Kev]

I have experienced a mild cloudiness a couple of times with my setup, but it was short lived. I opted to take no action as all stock was looking pretty healthy.

It was in the morning on these occasions that I noticed this, and by the time I got home fromwork, the system was crystal clear again.

Kev

[Chris, Reef Ranch]

It would be nice to know why it is cloudy. Do you run a Ca reactor? Do you use kalk? Cloudy water could indicate a lot of not very nice things going on. Check the fish a make sure they are not spotty. PM me if you need urgent help!

Chris

[Pinkfish]

I dont have a CA Reactor or use Kalkwasser , but the problem of cloudy water has seemed to resolve itself somehow ??

My tanks only 3 weeks old

[Pinkfish]

Water was cloudy for 2 days why I dunno.

[Kev]

Hi PinkFish

Probably some kind of algal bloom, being a new system, this is probably not so unusual.

Kev