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Ok so I put my 210g with a 55g sump. I put it up about two months ago. I put about 130lb of live rock in it as well as turbo start bacteria. I have the water tested once a week it went through a cycle and now I have had fish in it for about 3 or 4 weeks. All is good with them and every water test is spot on. The problem I'm having is the water is very cloudy. It has never really went clear. I even put carbon in it and still cloudy. Any ideas? I have no idea what else to do. I have also done a few water changes in it Any info would've great. Thank you
 
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Bacterial Bloom. You have added carbon and water changes the tank never really clears?
You running a skimmer,,try running alittle more on the wet side with skimmer cup drainging into a bucket to remove more water than more than normal "cloudy water". Replace with new salt water
 
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Got a big enough skimmer? Whats your water movement like? Gonna need a bunch more rock also, believe it or not, it does help.
 
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Well I only added the carbon about two weeks ago and I only changed about 25g of water since its been up. I do not have a protein skimmer yet but all my other tanks I waited to put a skimmer on them and they all cleared up I have a 3500gph pump and two very powerful powerheads. I'm getting more rock
 
Did you add turbo bac to these other tanks? 25gal change is a drop in bucket to a 210 tank.
Skimmer will help you alot whats going on in the sump? Plants? bioballs? Rock rubble?
 
Went through this Memorial Day weekend. Almost lost everything. Had to change my entire water volume TWICE before it cleared. Lost all acro. Still no idea what happened. Good luck!
 
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Yeah I have used the product in all my tanks. The skimmer is coming soon. (Money). In the sump I have a good size fuge with a nice sand bed and mangroves right now
 
Had a fish system 650gal that did that out of the blue...Took forever and ever to clear drained and filled 3 times...Then drianed and left it empty for a week...AnD then was clear again.
Still clueless as to why the other 2 where perfect all three tanks ran identicle filtration and where on same maintanece schedual.
 
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Best thing i can say is change water and a good amount. Again and again till the tank clears and close together if you give it to much time i could cloud your new water.
If you have other tanks pass your fish to those systems. I did not see you had corals, so work on problem with fish out of tank so its less stressful on you worrying about fish.
 
I would have lost everything if not for the water changes. All my fish were gasping for oxygen and everything was vaporizing before my eyes. It was either get out whatever was in the water or watch it all die.
 
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I went through cloudy water over the memorial weekend, ended up being too many auto air fresheners going off every 9 minutes throughout the house, and living in alabama our house is closed 90% of the time. I turned off almost all the airfreshners in the house, and put a box fan in a window for a couple hours at night for a few days. cleared it up in a few days.
 
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I went through cloudy water over the memorial weekend, ended up being too many auto air fresheners going off every 9 minutes throughout the house, and living in alabama our house is closed 90% of the time. I turned off almost all the airfreshners in the house, and put a box fan in a window for a couple hours at night for a few days. cleared it up in a few days.
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The only thing is this tank has never really been clear. It started its cycl then everything was covered with brown now the brown is gone and the water is cloudy.
 
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Really big skimmer should be used in a 210, this will help a bunch
Sounds like a bacteria bloom of some sorts.
Run more purigen, carbon. Purigen or Chemipure would be my advise. It won't clear overnite per say, but you should see improvements in a few days using that stuff. Also in a 210g tank without a skimmer, weekly huge water changes would be advisable.
One other question, do you have a sand sifter in there? Is he kicking up a cloud? What type of substrate are you using.
 
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