Cloudy Water after water change

[4D3]

You could never have to much filtration. I would stop feeding the beef heart and feeding more pellets...floating and sinking.

I would do at lease 60% water change a week just to get the free floating food, poop and others particulates out of the water.


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ok, i am just getting the water out of my tank to try a 60% change.

do you think there is any way the moving beds are getting affected by the chlorine as suggested earlier?

also when i water change this is my procedure:

1: Remove water
2: add Prime, Neutral Regulator and American Cichlid Salts
3: Bring the water out of the tap to the correct temp
4: Hook up a hose and pump the water into the tank


Am i missing anything?

 

[Bderick67]

Try not using the neutral reg with the prime. If that is seachem brand neurtral reg, it removes chlorine so prime is only needed if you have chloramine.

 

[4D3]

Try not using the neutral reg with the prime. If that is seachem brand neurtral reg, it removes chlorine so prime is only needed if you have chloramine.

Well I need the seachem neutral regulator to buff my ph...I have 6.5 out the tap and I'm in tank water do it changes ph as it rains.

Maybe I should use the neutral regulator instead of prime?

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[4D3]

It hapened to me once, I only can asume the water that I changed had too much chlorine so it affected the denitifiying bacteria colony partially killing it causing an ammonia spike, the cloudy water was the result of that ammonia spike.

Nevertheless bacteria colony didnt get totally killed so within 2 days water recovered its crystal clear appereance.

This my theoy to expain this, Im not 100% sure about it tough.

the winner of the prize is you Armand...

I did a full water test after a 60% WC suggesting here, and my ammonia was at 8ppm...what i didnt realize is that my wife had called the water company a few weeks ago and had the tanks filled up with town water which is heavily chlorinated, so i have been pumping chlorinated water in thinking i was using rain water!!

i am guessing i should only do 10-20% water changes now!!

what a bummer!