TheMosster Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 I was rescaping a tank yesterday and the water went cloudy as i am using fine sand. (the scape is mostly epiphytes, so the sand is not a plant issue) What is the best way to clear up the water? Just let it settle? Mechanical filtration? something else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dork Fish Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 @TheMosster Did the cloudy water appear out of nowhere, or was it a result of agitating the fine sand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMosster Posted June 21 Author Share Posted June 21 Just now, Dork Fish said: @TheMosster Did the cloudy water appear out of nowhere, or was it a result of agitating the fine sand? it was because i stirred up the sand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndEEss Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 Stir up water, perform water change. Stir up water, perform water change. Stir up water, perform water change. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dork Fish Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 @TheMosster You can do what @AndEEss said, or you could let it settle and get it with a siphon. Additionally you could add a fine particle media to your filtration and just keep agitating the water until the filter takes care of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMosster Posted June 21 Author Share Posted June 21 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Dork Fish said: @TheMosster You can do what @AndEEss said, or you could let it settle and get it with a siphon. Additionally you could add a fine particle media to your filtration and just keep agitating the water until the filter takes care of it. thats what i did. I added a small internal filter with filter floss that has taken care of most of it, and i could plug that back in to keep filtering. The primary filtration of the tank is a sponge filter, which does not pull out sand too well. Admitably this is not the best solution as the only reason i own this internal filter is that it was free, so its not the best design, so its stirring up substrate in the process of clearing it from the water. Maybe ill try this, just with a fine polishing pad on my sponge filter. Edited June 21 by TheMosster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dork Fish Posted June 21 Share Posted June 21 @TheMosster If you try the polishing pad on the sponge filter, you will have to let us know how that works. Could be good knowledge for the future. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMosster Posted June 21 Author Share Posted June 21 Just now, Dork Fish said: @TheMosster If you try the polishing pad on the sponge filter, you will have to let us know how that works. Could be good knowledge for the future. 🙂 i sure will let you know, ill make a post in the "experiments" thread so you guys can follow it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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