Murky Water ??????

[pnavarro170]

Well for the past couple of weeks my water has been cloudy, today it woke up green/yellow. I just did a 15g water change 2 days ago, so whatver its going thru should be over soon i would assume.

Well today i went and got one of those regular fish filter that hopefully the carbon and filters will clear it up.

Also put a different Heater on it and a thermometer to make sure the temp was correct.

What do yall think ???

[bluesplayer86]

Hmm that's got to be nerve racking. Have you tested the water? Ammonia nitrite and nitrate? Perhaps it's an algae bloom. I'd probably turn the lights off if possible. Post test results maybe give us more of clue

[915MANG]

Damn!

[Ryan_310]

I believe algae. Turn the lights off for a days if you can

[pnavarro170]

Yeah it's even more green now. Lol this is nuts. Lights are off I'll see how it wakes up then yeah gotta test.

[stvguerrero]

i think you girl put green kool aid on it to make you stop spending $$ jk, hope everything turns out good youve always have had a nice tank

[pnavarro170]

hehe, well its still pretty green not even sure how the corals look but the fish are alive. Gonna do another water change today 50% and then see what happens.

[pnavarro170]

not as green, but still cloudy. this is starting to **** me off. lol

[egq]

run it through a filter with carbon... i use the marineland activated carbon at petsbarn in my freshwater tank, and it clears it right up within like an hour... the cheapy carbon sucks

[pnavarro170]

im running 4 filters on some tetra brand 75gallon filter.

[stlcards14]

I had that with one of my tanks and a UV sterilizer fixed it up in 2-3 days. I never had the problem again.

[pnavarro170]

Anyone have a uv they can lend out. I don't want to spend more money at this tank ? Water is green again.

[pnavarro170]

water green still, i give up.


just gonna focus on gettin a full tank up and running soon. start from scratch.

[spieszak]

Man, thats tough. Its a little off the wall, but can you get live rotifiers? That looks like what they WANT to live in. They would likely die off as they cleared the green, which might put you in the same spot if you didn't harvest them, but it seems like it might be worth a shot before throwing in the towel on the tank.

[pnavarro170]

Thanks, yeah well for now i just ordered some cheap uv sterilizer, and today the water is less green but still cloudy and i can see im losing some corals. Gonna see what uv does and get her back in shape to maybe sell the whole thing to start a real tank.

[Ryan_310]

How much you want haha

[pnavarro170]

lol i have no clue. ill send you a pm.

[bluesplayer86]

ill buy it if he dont want it

[egq]

if you need someone to hold the corals so that they dont die... i am pretty sure i can make room in my tank.... just until you get it fixed

[pnavarro170]

thanks man, let me figure this out real quick, and see what the heck. Ordered new RO/DI filters and everything even new membrane, my tds was showing around 4 or 6, but i didnt think that would be a big deal. IDK, wanna see what UV does and probably part with the setup, also i want to probably remove the sand. Ive heard if ph is off it can disintegrate the sand and i have that tiny tiny fine sugar sized stuff.

[pnavarro170]

Okay just installed a Grech gup-01 UV filter. lets see what happens.

[bluesplayer86]

hope all goes well

[pnavarro170]

i can almost see my rockwork today. lol. its clearing up, most corals look alive. some RTN

[bluesplayer86]

awesome man great news im glad to hear it!

[pnavarro170]

thanks, ill keep yall posted. still might want to get the tank i want to do going maybe next month.