My Tank is Always Cloudy !!!!

ivasawajin

ivasawajin

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I have a 220G tank.its 3 months old but it was an upgrade from a 5 month old 90G tank .(70% water and 60KG of LR was recovered from it ). in this 220 tank i have 51 fishesh, +30 inverts and around 25 corals ... fishesh are in all sizes , from a fully grown 15cm Blue tang to a 4cm small Damsel . i can list them if anyone want. they all look happy and eat and my death rate is 0.00% since the tank started ( i had 12 fishes which i transfered them from the old tank since day 1) . everything seems ok except that the water is couldy . in the morning when i trun the lights on its not THAT couldy but after a couple of hours when all the fishesh start to move and eat and poop . it gets really couldy . my Sump based filteration is really strong ( like i said all the corals and fishes look healthy) . is it because of the High Bioload ??? or i can be a bacteria outbreak ??? i can be my sand cuz its so light my powerheads blows them away a little .plz help
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Did I read that right,.....51 fish???????????
is your sump your only filtration? If so what do you run in it and how big is it?
I'm gonna go with bio-load here w/o even hearing any more
 
darthtang 2

darthtang 2

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Can. You get a picture?
By the way....wrong forum....lol. I would give my thoughts but a picture would help so I don't give the wrong info.
Darth(feeling helpful) Tang
 
flower

flower

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LOL.In my 90g tank I have 8 fish total from a Hippo tang to a small orchid dottyback. I agree with you Meowzer.
 
darthtang 2

darthtang 2

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Check your PH. Bad level of ph is cloudy water
And your bioload of to many fish will make the ph mess up...need to remov e some fish...actually a lot of fish.
 
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smartorl

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I think he is from the Phillipines, if I remember correctly.
I would also go with the bioload. While a busy, busy reef is appealing, in reality, being able to provide a system capable of dealing with all that waste produced is practically non-existent. You would have to be doing massive daily water changes and that in and of itself would open you up to not being able to keep stable parameters.
 
ivasawajin

ivasawajin

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Quote:
Originally Posted by meowzer http:///forum/thread/384012/my-tank-is-always-cloudy#post_3362524
Did I read that right,.....51 fish???????????
is your sump your only filtration? If so what do you run in it and how big is it?
I'm gonna go with bio-load here w/o even hearing any more
I got 100Kg of LR and a 5inch sand bed for biological filteration . and as for my sump , its 1 meter long , i got 2 skimmers( one very big and good and one so so) , some bio balls that i clean every 2 weeks , some seachem matrix filter media( and some other filter media that helps to create bacteria) ,a 50cm3 refrigium ( with a lot of reefpods ), a UV ,carbon filteration . 2 phosphate reactors , 2 nitrate reactors and 1 calcium reactor .
and if you poeple dont believe me i can add a picture . from both my sump and display tank and YES I DO LIVE IN IRAN . as you all know Persian ( Iranian) Gulf has coral reef ...
what section do you mean ??? isnt this " An Aquarium" Problem per se?
 
darthtang 2

darthtang 2

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I would question your ph controller. You ph will not stay that stable 99 percent of the time due to the lighting alone...it will fluctiate as the lights are on.post a picture in the morning then late in the day just before the lights go off....also where do you get your water...how often do you do water changes.....I am known to push the envelope for number of fish in a tank and push the bioload...but 51 fish in a 250 gallon tank is insane.
This is the off topic section...there are different sections of the forum for different problems and questions...no big deal. 100 kg live rock seems light to me...I have 150 lbs for my 90 between the tank and sump......
 
darthtang 2

darthtang 2

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I would question your ph controller. You ph will not stay that stable 99 percent of the time due to the lighting alone...it will fluctiate as the lights are on.post a picture in the morning then late in the day just before the lights go off....also where do you get your water...how often do you do water changes.....I am known to push the envelope for number of fish in a tank and push the bioload...but 51 fish in a 250 gallon tank is insane.
This is the off topic section...there are different sections of the forum for different problems and questions...no big deal. 100 kg live rock seems light to me...I have 150 lbs for my 90 between the tank and sump......
 
ivasawajin

ivasawajin

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i have an RO unit for water. salt is very expensive here ( 7$ per KG for red sea pro salt) so i do 15% a month ... maybe every 6 weeks . ill post some pics later ... its 2:49am here . better get some sleep.
 
meowzer

meowzer

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Never said I didn't believe you ...Just making sure I read it right....I have moved this thread into the reef tank section, since that is what it is
I still think 51 fish are too many
 
ibew41

ibew41

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https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/forum/thread/381531/my-fishtank-is-dead this is one of his first posts
 
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