Does soft water contribute to algae in the water? I have a tank at one house where we have well water with a softener and a tank at another house that has hard city water. The tank with the soft water is always cloudy and eventually turns green if you dont do water changes like once a week.
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More info is needed to make a acurate call on this, although it seems like alotve water born alge possibly
The tank was in the basement so it didnt get much sunlight but the tank light was on about 10 hours a day. It is a 55 gal tank w/ a 5" convict a 2 2" cichlids a 3" jack dempsey a 3" peacock and a 3" pleco. I had playsand in the bottom with fake plants and a big piece of driftwood. I fed them flake food twice a day with occasional cichlid pellets. I did water changes at least once a week and by that point it was usually pretty nasty. There were some rocks in there that were light gray like clay and if you rubbed them, a little cloud would come off of them, I think this might have been what was making the water cloudy, but it was getting green, and there was green slime growing on the underside of the hood. I also had some rocks that I got from outside, could there have been something on those that caused the green hue?
tothna said:
Ok its Def algae, every few weeks I have to scrape the underside of my glass canopy. A good size Water change will help some but id sugest getting some algae remedy as well.
Try adding some vallisneria, sagittaria, or elodea to compete with the algae for nutrients and get rid of the clay like rocks. Soft sedimentary rocks are not usually a good chouce for tanks.
do a big water change and turn the light off for a few days 3-5 it should not hurt the fish and will kill the algae but make sure to test the water because when the algae dies off water quality will drop
I actually moved my tank to a different house and everything is gravy now.
Is it possible that the rocks I talked about before, the clayish ones, made the water really cloudy? (besides the green algae) I didn't put those rocks in the tank and the water is crystal clear. Even before I got the algae in the tank it was always cloudy no matter what I did.
Is it possible that the rocks I talked about before, the clayish ones, made the water really cloudy? (besides the green algae) I didn't put those rocks in the tank and the water is crystal clear. Even before I got the algae in the tank it was always cloudy no matter what I did.