Why is my water so foggy/cloudy?

could it be micro bubbles from your skimmer? also when was your last water change?

~Will.

 

Ammonia and nitrite spikes can also cause a hazy tank. But since your params are safe, that's obviously not it. I'd wash or change your filter floss.
Also, what are your Mg and KH levels. Ca will come out of solution and cloud a tank if the Ca, Mg and KH levels are not in balance with each other. At 450, you would need an Mg of about 1300-1350 and KH of about 11-12 if I'm not mistaken. I made the mistake once of dumping in Ca solution when I thought it was fresh topoff and my tank turned into a winter snow storm, my Ca levels were up in the 700ppm range. Luckily, I had no livestock in the tank at the time. It took me 2 weeks to get things back in order. I washed my filter floss daily to get the precipitated Ca out of the system.

 

ok i just replaced all the filter media because when i took it out to clean, it was just too disgusting. debris of brown clouds everywhere...ew so hopefully that took care of that. my magnesium level is also low around the 900 range. Ive been dosing for that too. (BTW i just started testing and dosing for calcium and magnesium a week ago. no corals yet but i just started so... thats why im dosing trying to get everything right

 

That's good that you are testing for them now. This hobby is a science, and going into it blindly usualy results in failure and a broken bank account. Glad you are looking at it correctly. I would definitely want about 8 months before getting into corals. You want your biological system to be rock solid stable. It will be hard enough to keep your alk and Ca stable with animals that use those elements. As a side note, you may want to consider removing your bioballs before they become a problem down the road. It's best to remove them before you have bacterial colonies established on them.

 

woah 8 months! does anyone else agree with this!?!? aww man! i was so excited for corals! anyways thanks for the compliments haha