Disney's 75G Tank Journal

[Sunee]

Originally Posted by DisneyCoralReef

Yea definitely have it running on socks right now. Some people are saying it might just need a lot more time. It's just started to clear enough for me to start seeing some of the sand in the display, so I am hoping it will get better. Going to give it more time, but man does it suck! I had never thought that this would happen. Going to give it another week or two to settle, and if it fails, ill have to empty the tank and put something else other than sand because I dont want to have to go through that every single time I make a change to the tank.

Good job so far. You are having many of the issues I had. Glad to hear you are working them out.

If you do decide to remove your sand you don't have to empty the tank you can just siphon out the sand with wider bore tubing (something like 1/2"). If you keep the tubing in the sand you don't remove too much of the water. I set up a new tank a few months ago (no journal yet) and used this method to remove most of the sugar fine I started with and replace with slightly coarser sand as my MP40 was moving it around too much. It worked great.

Another option to quiet your pump if you don't like the idea of the styrofoam staying in the tank is a mesh like Lifegard aquatics aquamesh filter - I used the blue stuff and it works great. I know I am going to have to clean it really well when I clean the pump but better that than the noise.

[DisneyCoralReef]

Took all the advice that came. I put some foam on the bottom of the pump which did help, and added some dry rock to the sump(biggest result), I also added some PVC to the vomiting end of the skimmer to not have that "splash" when it comes back out-that was another great, HUGE noise control option.

Now it's focusing on clearing the tank.

[DisneyCoralReef]

So we took care of doing the first few steps, measuring salt tonight, cleaning the filter, and installing the lights. The water is at the right temp-what's the next step once the tank clears up?

[Skimmerking]

looking forward to seeing it soon.

[fishytime]

Once your salinity is right.......GET SOME ROCK IN THERE GIRLY!!!

[Madreefer]

I've been really curious as to why you added your salt to a tank full of water. I'm sorry and apologize if you already know this, but you should never mix up your saltwater in your tank. Have you put any live rock in your tank yet? You dont need to take out your powerheads either. Just position them different. Make sure there is a it of a ripple on the surface of the water. As another member posted early, if you put some rock in your tank it will help "break up" the flow on the sandbed.

[DisneyCoralReef]

Been changing my filter socks every morning for 2 days, and look what I have...funny how that works...

[Skimmerking]

[DisneyCoralReef]

It did clear, unfortunately tho, I left the R.O. unit running before leaving for work-on and forgot to turn it off. I was nearly an 8 hour shift at work, when I got a call that there was a "water leak" coming from my unit, and came to over $4,000 worth of damage in 2 different units-mine and the neighbor below.

Spent my entire weekend emptying the condo to rip out the carpet and the underlay. We've had fans in there for 2 days now-buying new underlay today. The tank tho at the time really upset and wanted to let it go-has been moved to storage in our underground storage unit. Gah! we were getting so close! everything has to be on hold while we wait for insurance to call us back.

[Sunee]

I'm so sorry to hear that. Nothing worse than going through all that work and someting like this happening. I hope insurance takes care of it for you.

Do you think you will try again?