Particles in water

[lweepin]

When my aquarium lights are on, I can see a lot of white small paricles in the water.

What are this particles?

Is this normal?

Is it because my wave maker is not positioned properly and causing the particles to be generated from the sand bed?

Hope that someone can enlighten me on this

[Kenji80]

Maybe its air bubbles.

[Achilles Tang]

Could be detritus? You can filter it with fine wool.

[tomowilson]

i think its detritus........my tank also have this particles.......everytime i adjust my spray bar, the detritus on the sand will be stirred up and will be blown ard by my spray bar.....lolzz.....i also dunno wat to do wif it.

[xersion]

let the dust settle down will do..

[lweepin]

let the dust settle down will do..

So it seem to be detritus based on the feedback here. Mine does no seem to settle down at all.

Does it mean that my powerhead is not placed properly and it keep on blowing detritus from the sand bed?

I only have those coarse sponge in my filter. Does everyone put those fine wool in their filters?

I am deciding whether to take some actions or just live with it?

Any further comments?

[tomowilson]

i face the same problem also, it just doesn't settle, wat i do is i use a fish net to net out as much as possible, but my little goby loves to dig the sand bed n stir more back to the water column........hahaha.....luv n hate it

[Copperband]

tomowilson- netting out the Detritus will not only be time consuming... you might risk constantly stressing your Fish/corals...

Whitefish- A long term solution is needed.... perhaps a picture of what exactly the dust looks like? and how are your LS taking it? are they stressed?

[tomowilson]

hahha....i only net out big ones near to the surface when i am feeding my fishes, to them the net seems to be a signal that its dinner time. I am not acutally bothered by the particles.

[lweepin]

tomowilson- netting out the Detritus will not only be time consuming... you might risk constantly stressing your Fish/corals...

Whitefish- A long term solution is needed.... perhaps a picture of what exactly the dust looks like? and how are your LS taking it? are they stressed?

First of all, I can't tell whether my corals or stress or not (Only 1 month into this hobby) Seem quite normal to me.

I have attached the photos below. It is not easy to try to take photos of these particles

When the lights are on, it seem to be snowing inside my tank. Maybe this is chrismas session

If I'm lucky, it will stop when spring comes during CNY. LOL

[MAG]

hahha....i only net out big ones near to the surface when i am feeding my fishes, to them the net seems to be a signal that its dinner time. I am not acutally bothered by the particles.

i used to have that and after i on my ozoniser h20 became clear. not too sure if the o3 helps. i understand on ozoniser too long is not good for corals so nowaday i only on when going out of hse(bad for health if inhale too much o3)for few hrs.

[Copperband]

i Will hazaed a guess.... I think its a bacteria bloom? Perhaps a 50% waterchance might help. . .

[xersion]

its looks like those filter wools coming loose... or it might be dust also..

[lweepin]

I think I partially know why there are always particles inside my water.

I realized that once in a while, my life rocks "blows" out particles

Maybe there are some small live things in the LR responsible for it.

Any guesses?

[thedidavid]

I think I partially know why there are always particles inside my water.

I realized that once in a while, my life rocks "blows" out particles

Maybe there are some small live things in the LR responsible for it.

Any guesses?

Buy white filter floss cut it into size and put it on the first overflow chamber and change it every 2 days, it may solve your problem.