Cloudy water.. how to keep it clear?
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Also, remove all the fish in it and put them into an established home until it finishes cycling. Otherwise, most, if not all of your fish will die whlile it's cycling.
chesterthehero;2546165; said:
your right his one top filter hob is gonna do a great job on that 65 gtank
H]-[H;2300486; said:
Make sure your turn over rate on your tank is at least 5 cycles a hour, 7-10 if your keeping monsters. 20+ If your overstocking.
10+ cycles a hour you can sturr your sand and gravel and have it be crystal clear in less then 5 or 6 hours.
I have about the same setup of fish you do but im pushing 1550gph in75g just divid thos two numbers and you get 20 cycles per hour.
Hi guys, a related question:
My water is also cloudy but I'm pretty sure I cycled it since Day 1. Water dimensions are 4x1.5x1 with 1x ornate bichir, 1x angelfish, 5x redclaw crays and some feeder shrimp. The water is almost never clear as in there's always some degree of "haze" in it. I can never see from 1 end to the other end clearly. I do 50% weekly water changes and the lights are on at a minimum to prevent algae growth. Feeding is around 7-8 hikari massivore tablets once per nite every nite. There are hardly any leftovers the next morning; those that are left are quickly siphoned out.
Every time I do a water change I always add PSB bacteria in larger quantities than required and I leave the lights on for about 15min to stimulate their growth so I don't understand why my tank isn't cycling well. There is more than enough bacteria added. Some days, I even add abit of bacteria even without water change. New water is always dechlorinated before adding it into the tank; I even let the dechlorinated water stand for afew hours to make sure all the chlorine is taken care of. What could be wrong? Or is the tank still cycling? Please advise me thanks =(
My water is also cloudy but I'm pretty sure I cycled it since Day 1. Water dimensions are 4x1.5x1 with 1x ornate bichir, 1x angelfish, 5x redclaw crays and some feeder shrimp. The water is almost never clear as in there's always some degree of "haze" in it. I can never see from 1 end to the other end clearly. I do 50% weekly water changes and the lights are on at a minimum to prevent algae growth. Feeding is around 7-8 hikari massivore tablets once per nite every nite. There are hardly any leftovers the next morning; those that are left are quickly siphoned out.
Every time I do a water change I always add PSB bacteria in larger quantities than required and I leave the lights on for about 15min to stimulate their growth so I don't understand why my tank isn't cycling well. There is more than enough bacteria added. Some days, I even add abit of bacteria even without water change. New water is always dechlorinated before adding it into the tank; I even let the dechlorinated water stand for afew hours to make sure all the chlorine is taken care of. What could be wrong? Or is the tank still cycling? Please advise me thanks =(
Finalfire9;2551555; said:
all the gph in the world wont do a thing if the tank is not cycled...
this is more of that bad info i was talking about
i think you added to much fish to the tank... usually your suppose to add a couple at a time with new tanks because there isnt enough beneficial bacteria in the tank to eat up the amonia. try adding stress zyme from api to add some more ben. bact. ohh and it would help if you had a canister filter. more filtration=clear water 
chesterthehero;2551719; said:
Your soo funny!!
His water is obvouisly white from overfeeding his 5 fish with a weak filter.
Sorry chester but you must be thinkin about 40 years ago when we had undergravel filters that relyed on cycling a freshwater tank for a bed of benifical bacteria but umm wake up we dont use weak sauce biofilters anymore theres micron systems
Like this from ocean clear 125$
http://www.aquacave.com/ocean-clear-319-canister-filter-1377.html#
Its been 3 days on his tank, and the water hasnt cleared thats a clear sign the filtration system is not up to par.
IF you dont have ability ro diy for ocean clear try a ehiem model.
iloveoscars702;2551773; said:i think you added to much fish to the tank... usually your suppose to add a couple at a time with new tanks because there isnt enough beneficial bacteria in the tank to eat up the amonia. try adding stress zyme from api to add some more ben. bact. ohh and it would help if you had a canister filter. more filtration=clear water
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