Help with cloudy tank and corals does not open

[yagoyo]

Help me....... , i have a clouded tank, very-very clouded......

I have started a coral tank about a year ago and had been using tropic marin salt ever since then. I have just added the salt yesterday.

But this morning i found out that my tank is very cloudy and my lifestock is not opening . I have also added the seachem reef calcium which is used to maintain calcium by using dripper yesterday after adding the salt water.

Will it clear up after a few days or do i need to do something else to remove the cloudiness?

Needs some expert advice on how to resolve the problem. Please help. Thank you

[blueheaven]

The only reasons I can think of is that you either have mass dieoff somewhere or you have ionic imbalance which caused precipitation.

Change some water and check your LS and water parameters

[Dazza]

chk yr ammonia & nitrite... eh did u mean that u added salt directly into the tank with livestk?

[yagoyo]

Thank you for the reply

No but i mix the water with the salt first then add the antichlorine.

But yesterday my tank was ok, it was crystal clear and there is no cloudiness, not until i have added the seachem reef calcium used to maintain calcium. No mass dieoff at all that is visible.

With filtration is there any possibility of clearing the water?

[jewelking]

from chemistry point of view, two possibilities :

1. Should have add antichlorine to the water before mixing in the salt.

2. Precipitation resulted from the calcium that you added.

[blueheaven]

If you are looking for a filtration system to clear the water, you are only curing the symptom, not the cause.

You have to look at what went wrong and fix that part

[No_Floaters]

You shouldn't add a calcium supplement to a new salt mix. It already has some in it.

[nakazoru]

Help me....... , i have a clouded tank, very-very clouded......

I have started a coral tank about a year ago and had been using tropic marin salt ever since then. I have just added the salt yesterday.

But this morning i found out that my tank is very cloudy and my lifestock is not opening . I have also added the seachem reef calcium which is used to maintain calcium by using dripper yesterday after adding the salt water.

Will it clear up after a few days or do i need to do something else to remove the cloudiness?

Needs some expert advice on how to resolve the problem. Please help. Thank you

Hmmm,

The last time I have the killer cloud is that I added some <5% of tap water that is with chlorine in the filter. Less than 5% of my 30+G and I see a massacre in the doing of less than 1 hours.

Some stuff I suspect chlorine has trigger a massive killing of the bacteria of the filter with bio-ring... and also trigger a some other chemistry outburst... I was not quick enuf to react, get what ever fish (all dazy) possible and put to my 2ft QT... Still no surviver...

Since then I add anti-chlorine then salt, the sits water for 1 week. Never have this killer cloud again.

[Cardinal Tetra]

I've never used antichlorine for my marine tank. And I top up 4.5l of tapwater daily. No cloudiness, and no casualities.

[nakazoru]

I've never used antichlorine for my marine tank. And I top up 4.5l of tapwater daily. No cloudiness, and no casualities.

I dun know, I used to do it direct tap water and it was okay, until this experience. The cause and effect that I deduce from this killer cloud.

Also mine is a small tank....

[ozy]

Do you add any bio ased additives like Cycle/Biozyme or AZNO3?

They may also cause the cloudiness you mentioned.

[yagoyo]

Thank you all for the reply and advice, my tank now is as crystal clear as normal again.

Btw, anyone know of the proper steps of preparing a saltmix? How to aerate the water? wanna ask for some advise on this.

[Tanga]

Bro for me I add 1 cap of seachem PRIME to the tap water then add salt.