Please only serious answers, hazy saltwater tank?

Question

I have a hazy water looking saltwater tank issue, but all water tests are great and it has cycled for 2 months. here is my setup ( all creatures very small, 2" and smaller):
thank you
10 Gal tank (ya I know,small)
crushed coral on top of sand
5 lbs Fiji live rock
2 power filters
bubbler
heater 78-83F
four 10K / 18" lights
4 damsels
1 banded shrimp
4 turbo snails
2 emerald crabs
white star fish (small)

I thought 2 power filters was good, it bad?

Answer 1

I hope you're going to upgrade the tank eventually - if not, you'll be down to a single damsel unless you have chromis. For their size, damsels are a very aggressive fish and a 10 gallon isn't enough territory for more than one.

It's difficult to say what the cause of the haze might be. Crushed coral is difficult to clean and and in the bag as the pieces rubbed against each other, they crate a powder that stays in the water column, so that's a possibility.

So is the tank still cycling - even though your water tests fine, if your fish are only 2" or less, they're still growing and as they grow, they will be prodicing more ammonia. As long as there's more ammonia or nitrite than the existing bacteria can convert completely, they'll continue to reproduce completely, making it appear as though the water is cloudy.

The number of filters and bubbler (airstone?) all act to keep lighter materials (wastes and powder from the substrate) stirred up. If the particles are too small to be captured by your filters, they'll continue to make the water look cloudy.

If your white star is a sand-sifter, it may also be contributing by stirring up material which had settled out of the water.

You don't mention what type of media your filters use, but you might see if your pet store has media with smaller openings - one of the micro-filtration pads - this would trap more material (causing the filter to clog more quickly) but should clear up the water a little more.

Answer 2

Did you put all these "creatures" in at once? Or have you slowly added some fish here and there? Could be a bacteria bloom, if all the fish, crabs and things were all added at once. Don't do anything, don't add anything just leave it alone.
It'll clear itself up pretty fast. Definitely think you have enough things in your ten gallon, don't want to over overload your tank.
Good luck, a ten gallon isn't the easiest size tank to take care of!

Answer 3

try this product:
http://www.lotsofpets.com/kntmar-polyox.html

BTW when is the last time you did a water change?
also look into buying a Nano cube
its much better than a 10 gal set up and has a better lighting why do you have two filters on a 10 gal?

Answer 4

i had hazy water in my 30 gallon for a while and i put some more charchol in my filter (i hope you know it isnt the grill kind of charchol) they even make some that help the ammonia levels go down.

Answer 5

try putting some marine charcoal, and make sure that nothing is stirring up the sand