cloudy water, need help!

[cpn_aaron]

Both of my salt water tanks, 30 gal FL grass bed species and recently aquired 75 gal reef tank both have cloudy water. Water parameteres are pristine. My fish are fine, corals are still open but seem to be getting less light due to the increased turbidity, and inverts seem to care less. I changed the carbon on both tanks to see if I just needed new activated carbon but a day later and they're both still cloudy. I've turned up my protein skimmer to let more oxygen in the chamber in the hopes that this will dissociate and catch some of whatever is making my water cloudy. The only thing I can think that I've done to both tanks is left a seaweed sheet clipped to the glass over night to get some shy herbivores to feed. The sheets were gone by morning but the package says to only leave for 2-3 hrs before removal. Could the sheets have dissolved and be setting me up for some major ammonia problems? Tomorrow I plan to do a major water change if the skimmer fails to clear it up, but I was curious if anyone had any ideas or past experience with this.

[cpn_aaron]

The skimmer must have cleared it up. The skimmer was very frothy but only a small layer of stuff was picked up in it. The sand and rock has no sediment, so whatever it was has dissipated. It could have been percipitation of some minerals form my water, I don't know. Either way it's done and nothing has changed in the tank. Just three days of cloudy mystery water.

[Max]

Could it possibly have been reproduction? Sometimes when some inverts reproduce your water will look a little cloudy for a few hours or days. Just a guess but, that's happened in my tank a time or two. Once when I had just bought a scallop it reproduced like 2 days after I got it. I had no idea what was wrong I thought that someone had spilled something into the tank.