So I have a 200gal that has been setup & running for over a year now. About once a week I keep getting this cloudy white flim all over the glass. It looks like a bunch of tiny white strings up close. My tank starts to smell & when I clean the glass off the smell gets worse for about a day then goes away. I am guessing that this is bacterial but don't know why it keeps coming back. I am currently running a fx5 full full of chemi-pure & bio rings along with a 405 with bio rings & carbon. Is there something wrong with the way my filters are setup that is causing this?
i keep having recurring bacterial blooms
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Water parameters would help.
My initial guess would be fungus actually, but that's just because the only issue I ever had that your description brought to mind was fungal. Mine went away for good after I scraped it off the glass one time, but if others think they have an idea, they may be more helpful than me. I still suggest listing all water parameters, stocking, and decorations (do you have driftwood you found at a lake? any plants, what kind, things like that) to help the real experts help you.
My initial guess would be fungus actually, but that's just because the only issue I ever had that your description brought to mind was fungal. Mine went away for good after I scraped it off the glass one time, but if others think they have an idea, they may be more helpful than me. I still suggest listing all water parameters, stocking, and decorations (do you have driftwood you found at a lake? any plants, what kind, things like that) to help the real experts help you.
Well on my tanks I have to clean white stuff off the glass I assume is calcium from hard water. It doesn't look stringy or cloud the water though.
Ok water parameters are .25ppm ammonia, 0 nitrite, 20ppm nitrate. 6.8 ph. It is hard trying to get a picture that can get details zoomed in. There is no drift wood in the tank just sand, rocks & slate. The tank is stocked with 2 oscars, 2 jack dempsy, 2 green terrors, 1 clown knife fish, and 1 tiger shovel nose cat. Were 3 green terrors until I got home tonight and my shovel nose decided to try an eat my smallest one.
Increase water changes to 25% twice a week. It seems like alot but trust me it will help your problems and make the water cleaner. Your tank has a nasty stock waste wise. You need to increase your water changes to prevent this.
Alright so is the ammonia what is causing the smell & build up on the glass? I have half of my 405 filled with carbon to help the smell. I can fill the 405 completely with bio rings for more biological filtration. I figured with 46oz of chemi-pure which is suposed to remove ammonia among other things & all the bio rings I already have in there was enough. Just getting done fishing out my dead terror that my shovelnose just coughed up, depressing.