Tap Water Tank

[Dr Blue Thumb]

Hi water is foggy looking with a hint of white cloud look? is it bacteria or ammonia?Or?
I also have an algae problem.

So far I did a 50% water change and I am running caron in a reactor.

Just looking for advice on running a tap water tank without rodi thanks

 

[Dr Blue Thumb]

All I have in the 90G now is 2 x demsels and sand, with 10 lbs rock. In the sump is sand and 10lbs rock along with a carbon reactor.

 

[Dr Blue Thumb]

Should I get rid of the demsels? the tank has been running for 6 months now but I fear that the 120 lbs of rock that was in there before was contaminated. so I took it out.

 

[Michael Cronmiller]

I'm no expert, but I wouldn't run tap w/o an rodi system

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Should I get rid of the demsels? the tank has been running for 6 months now but I fear that the 120 lbs of rock that was in there before was contaminated. so I took it out.

Not the rock is fine.
The concern with tap is cloramnes. And a few other things that kill bacteria and or clean your pipes.

You'd have to know more what is in your tap water to really understand how to treat it.
Why you have a bloom is hard to say.

In my neighborhood we can't use tap for freshwater fish no mater the treatment.
It kills them.

 

[Michael Cronmiller]

Tap water may contain low amounts of nitrates, traces of copper ( not good for inverts), heavy metals..(chlorine), and other solids you don't want in your tank

 

[GoVols]

I'm no expert, but I wouldn't run tap w/o an rodi system

+1...

 

[Dr Blue Thumb]

When I added the dry reef rock, the rock had a sludge look to it on where it looked like it had a 1/4 inch thick build up of detritus etc on it. over the last 12 years of running tap water tanks I've never ran into this. I've always used live rock or clean florida base rock.

I will invest in a rodi in a few months, but what do I do in the meantime?

 

[GoVols]

I will invest in a rodi in a few months, but what do I do in the meantime?

Ride it out.

 

[Dr Blue Thumb]

The killing of bacteria I can understand?

So will the product prime work maybe? I will not add any more fish or coral in the meantime untill my rodi arrives.

I am going to get rid of the fish and leave the coral, then do a few 50 % water changes. over the next 2 months.

reason being is I invested $2000 so far and need to take a small break before adding an rodi

 

[Michael Cronmiller]

You could go to your lfs and buy your water temporarily

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Airate the water for as long as you can before using. Use seachem prime and stability and run gfo a polypad in the system wouldn't hurt.

 

[Michael Cronmiller]

Way better than what you're running imo

 

[Forsaken77]

When I had a tap water saltwater tank, like 20 years ago, my water would occasionally cloud up as well. I always used a water clarifier. It takes the suspended particles and lumps them together to flush them down the overflow. This tank didn't have corals though. So take it for what it's worth, but it made my tank crystal clear. Now I use an RO/DI system.