Came home to a cloudy tank. Help!!

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
first, you need to get a new test kit (not the strips either). id do a 50 percent water change, add the ammo chips back in and test the water, and test your water out of your tap too.. if the tank is only 2 weeks old, you should be at the end of the ammonia spike,and starting to build up nitrItes.. and have 0 nitrates still (because the nitrites havent been consumed and converted to nitrates yet).
its really weird that you have NO nitrites. if you have no nitrites and no ammonia then your tank isnt cycling-or is having a bacterial bloom. how long have your fish been in the tank? since the beginning?
 
BlackwaterFL;1883434; said:
If you had ammonia removing stuff in the filters your tank probably never properly cycled. I would do a 50% water change minimum and put the ammonia chips back in.
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This what happened to me. I came home and my water looked like milk. I took a water sample to my LFS and my nitrates were a little high but my ammonia skyrocketed. I did a 50% upon returning home, cleaned my filter to make sure that the ammonia was out of the sponge and carbon. I then let the filter run for that day and woke up and did it all over again in the morning. I didnt loose one fish, even though it was evident that I was close because my Jack was swimming sideways.
 
How do you own a test kit for five years and only have a tank for two weeks???
 
bad Chompers! lol.. you werent supposed to catch that lol..
 
that's just the beginning of a snow ball.





Something tells me we are having :spam: for lunch.
 
quite alot of that going around here lately..
 
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