help...suggestions

[richie822]

i set up a 29 gallon tank about 2.5 weeks ago with about 46ibs of live rock and a 3 inch sand bed. I am running an aqua c remora hang on skimmer and a whisperer hang on power filter. ammonia -0 nitrite-0 nitate-0 salintiy-1.025. i recently just bought a reef package with snails/ crabs, etc....my problem is that the water cant seem to clear up. It has stayed fairly cloudy. How can i clear this up? Shuold i give a big water change? shuold i change the media in the power filter? is their somehting i can buy? wanted to get a fish this week but i am scared that the cloudy water will have an effect on the fish even thuogh my parameters are good. any suggestions wuold be appreciated...is this normal? shuold i just wait and see if the water clears up?

[dobejazz]

The cloudy water could be a bacterial bloom in the water, something stirring up the sand or even micro bubbles from the skimmer

[tims]

Your take has not cycled fully yet. and adding the clean up crew maybe a bad thing this early.
yes changing your carbon will help but giving the tank some time will also.
how old is the salt mix?

[Geoff]

i would not have anything in the power filter except carbon. do not think that the powerfilter is the problem with cloudy water though, but removing the media from the filter will help you downt he line.

can you tell if the cloudiness is bubbles, suspended material, or just a bit hazy?

G~

[Wiskey]

My tanks are usually cloudy like that in the begining, and I've always called it exactaly what Kelli did, a water borne bacterial bloom, before long my tanks clear up on their own.

Whiskey