video of my 4 month old tank.. how do I get my water to be clearer??

[ckehl]

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu...D83D0236606727
I'm currently running with:
1 Emperor 400 Biowheel Filter
1 Excalibur Protein Skimmer
2 Maxijet 1200 Power Heads
2x250 Watt Metal Halides
70 lbs live rock
40 lbs live sand
1 GSM
2 False percs (raised from uncw)
2 Peppermint Shrimp
1 Coral Banded Shrimp
Numerous crabs and snails
Green Zoos
Brown Zoos
Assorted Zoos
1 Florida Condi
1 BTA
Green Star Polyps
1 Umbrella Mushroom

 

[happyvac]

Take out that Bio-Wheel...I've heard they become nitrate factories. I have no idea about the Excalibur.

 

[watertite]

A good way to get clearer water is with a polishing filter such as a diatom which removes unwanted bacteria and debris. I ordered mine from petsmart dot com and that did it for me. But get rid of the bio wheel in favor of a canister system rated for your size tank mine look much better and in combination with a uv sterizer the unwanted algae went away and my reef sand also cleaned up.

 

[aztec reef]

how's the carbon catrige on the emperor? yes remove bio-wheel but not the filter. i use my emperor for water movement and run carbon catrige occasionaly. did something just died?

 

[paulcoates]

You can try a product called Algone. It clears my water up nicely
The web site is called the same

 

[paulcoates]

or you could try some reef carbon
I use them both in combination