hello i have 3 lg Asian sun catfish in a 40 g (waiting on bigger tank)but no matter what i do the water is never clear enough to really see them ......parameters are great running AC500 and 150 on this tank 1\4 water change weekly i love these fish and dont want anything to happen to them any ideas would help thanks for your time
drity water please help
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How long has the ank been set up? Is it white cloudy or green cloudy? What are your water parameters?
the tank has been running 6 months but just to in the suns in feb- nether just dirty looking water
with what little info youve given us Id say maybe you dont have the right filter media. If you dont have the right stuff in your filters alot of stuff could just be circulating through it and back into you tank.
please what would you say i need ...i have only the stuff that came with the filters but will do what i have to for themSemperFish;4962389; said:
Cloudy water as in your avatar is a caused by a bacteria bloom. Sometimes the cleaning of all filters at once, or changing/over cleanning of the substraight can trigger a bacteria bloom, due to the removal of bacterial colonies that had settled on the filter media or substrate. If a great deal of the benificial bacteria is destroyed, the bacteria are either re-establishing themselves, or are feeding on the elavated levels of nutrients. In nutrient rich new water they can multiply at such a high rate that the water becomes cloudy in hours. Also you could keep the lights off for a few hours after the water change this sometimes helps. Don't clean both filters at the same time alternate cleannings to keep form destroying too much good bacteria at once.
I just read your post above. You should have filter floss in the filters but really don't need carbon. Weekly water changes of 50% and alternate cleanings of the filter media should sovle your problem.
I just read your post above. You should have filter floss in the filters but really don't need carbon. Weekly water changes of 50% and alternate cleanings of the filter media should sovle your problem.