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Originally Posted by TheNewGuy

Hello All,

I just finished my first water change on my first SW tank. yay! anyways, I was a little confused as to how I had such "cloudy" water from what i mixed up. 3 days ago i got 20g of RODI water (75g tank, no sump), and got a heater into it, a maxijet 1200, and fired it all up in a 30g rubbermaid container. bit of messing with the heater to get it at the right temp, mixed the salt up to 1.026 last night, and it was the same today. pH was nearly identical, dKH was the same at 9, but the water had a white haze do it. im 99% sure it was just excess calcium, as the H2Ocean i use mixed up to have 480ppm calcium when i initially set up the tank.

I added the water, it made the tank a little hazy, which has now cleared up. but it appears that all the tiny algae filaments have had calcium precipitate out and stick to them, and on the LR. Im thinking that i just didnt let it circulate and mix up enough.

My question is this, what is YOUR procedure for mixing WC water. do you mix it a week before? what steps do you take?

Maybe try a better salt like Royal Nature, it mixes super clean and much faster than H2Ocean. I mix mine at the time I want to do the WC and when the salt is disolved the water is clear and I'm good to go.