Water suddenly cloudy
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2 marineland emperor 400s. as for bio media, i put some small ceramic rings and other crumbled bio rocks inside the cartridges that come with the emperor. only one of my filters contains these rocks
A big mistake i made when i first did a big change after my algae bloom started was filling up my filter with my aqueon siphon hose, which immediately knocked the visible beneficial bacteria that i already had growing on the cartidges into my tank. now ive been trying to regrow this bacteria since that disaster
When transferring a stock of fish to a new tank, it is important to move as much of the stuff(bio media; gravel; décor) from the original tank over to the new tank as well...because all these stuff contains beneficial bacteria. The exception is water. Dump the old water and fill tank with all new water(as long as the parameters/chemistry are not too far off). If you didn't transfer enough bb colonies over, your new tank will have an inadequate bb population which could result in a mini cycle......an indicator would be haziness
that could be exactly what im going through right now, because i only transfered some small decor from my old tank to new tank. i put all new gravel in. whats the best way to speed up the process of this possible mini cycle?
The first thing I recommend Is you get a water test kit.You need to verify if your tank is actually cycled or not.
Cycled tank is indicated by zero ammonia, zero nitrite, and traces of nitrate
Did you just transfer the water??? What did you do with the filters and media from the 30G???
Also, any more upgrades planned in the near future???
