Extremely cloudy water! HELP!!!

[landmeier]

I just put southdown sand in one of my tanks last night. The water is very cloudy and has shown no improvement since yesterday. What do I do to clear it up? Should I leave the skimmer, powerheads, and millenium 3000 filters on or will they just stir things up more? No livestock is currently in the tank. Please help! I did rinse the sand first.

 

[seatank]

are you running carbon in your filter?if not this should help you.

 

[misty]

When I added my sand, I put a sponge filter in with the carbon cartride to act as more of a fine particle collector.
Since SD sand is so fine, it will probably take a couple of days to clear up. I didn't turn my powerheads back on until most of the sand had settled. I didn't have my skimmer on either. Just ran the filter. The biggest problem was that I needed to rearrange my live rock and everytime I picked up a piece when most of the sand had settled, it stirred it back up again. And then the sand would settle back on the live rock pieces...it was a vicious circle!

 

[jimi]

If there is nothing in the tank I would turn the powerheads off but keep running the skimmer. Rinse any prefilter material or sponges you have.

 

[nosmada]

mine took about 3-4 days to clear to where i could put my fish back in. just gotta sit back and wait. i turned off all of my powerheads and ran a whisper 4 filter on the back with some carbon and just kept rinsing out the filters when they got real full.
hth,
chris

 

[nm reef]

Be patient.........shut off the phs......and run the filters but clean the pads regular....it will settle..........