does your water?

[jkrc07]

does your water always turn to a whitish color after you do your water change? mine does then goes to the normal color again. whats up with that?

 

[---XR---]

does your water always turn to a whitish color after you do your water change? mine does then goes to the normal color again. whats up with that?

mine does that if i have the water somewhat warm, if i keep it at the normal tempeture of the water in the tank it stays the same color.

 

[Sunpoe]

Air bubbles?

 

[HiGhTiMeZ]

yup sometimes...
are u using warm water from faucet directly?
those are probably tiny water bubbles and/or bb floating freely.

 

[Burtess]

Are you using a Python?

What I do is shove a piece of sponge from an AC110 into the end of the gravel vac tube when I refill the tank. This gives something for the microbubbles to attach to and they come together to form larger bubbles which easily dissapate.

Burt

 

[mikehawk]

I always just figured it was kicking up sediment when you dump water back in the tank. Except, I just vacuumed the gravel, so there shouldn't be too much sediment. Maybe tap water is just coudy and it doesn't clear up until it passes over the charcoal in the filter.

 

[AtomixIGN]

You could be stirring a lot of crap up. How long does it last? maybe you're haveing a little mini-cycle?

 

[sirasoni]

this happens to me sometimes as well...and it was in my bare bottom tank so it couldnt have been crap/sediment?