I've never had a cloudy tank before, but sometime starting last night my 65g reef has picked up a slight cloudy tint to it. I had to skip the lighting on the tank for a 1 day cycle while the power was out. It appears the cloudiness has gotten slightly worse throughout the day. Anyone have any suggestions?
"When they was no meat we ate fowl, when there was no fowl we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate what?"--H.I.
"We ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate sand?"--H.I.
"That's right."--Cellmate
I'm not sure about the macro algae going asexual, but the hair algae are mostly gone now. I wonder if this is just the natural die-off of the vegetation because of the lack of lighting? It's not any worse this morning. My corals all look really good. Their polyps are all open and the fish are "perky". I'll change the carbon today just in case.
Too much calcium can also give a hazy cloud in a tank.
"When they was no meat we ate fowl, when there was no fowl we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate what?"--H.I.
"We ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate sand?"--H.I.
"That's right."--Cellmate
Hey Snoop, that was a pretty good point, but I ran out of my two part additives about 3 weeks ago. I just haven't gotten around to making more yet. I'm scared to even check how low the Ca is right now.
I'll post an update this afternoon. I'll have to wait till the lights come on.
After about a week of having a cloudy tank I did a 5% water change and really "stirred" things up when I siphoned out some algae. Within about 1 hour the tank is really clear. I can't imagine the water change did it, but for sure it went back to normal (i.e. clear) right after I did it.
Sometimes I wonder how much of this hobby we really understand.
