[vegasmike]

Bio Clear locks up organics so your mechanical filter can take them out. Most cloudiness is just too many organics, so feed every other day, not every day. In my opinion, an easier freshwater tank to maintain will have both an UG filter and external filter. Change the carbon insert on the external once a month. Make sure it is rated twice your actual water volume.

I recently had to take down my 450 gallon SW reef tank and I am missing the hobby already. I got my 12 yr old a 5 gallon fresh water and he loves the thing, just too boring for me. I like the SW fish, live corals and clams.

Good luck with it and beware. I started with a 2 goldfish in a 1 gallon bowm that my mother bought me oldest son when he was three. The progressed to a ten gallon fresh, 90 gallon salt, 180 gallon salt, 180 and 150 gallon salt and finally to the 450.

Have fun.