Tank Problems

[Mr Pleco]

Ok first off I have two 60 gallon tanks. One is a community tank and one is just misc fish from plecos to silver dollars. I did a water test of Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate. Everything between the two are exactly the same. Onto the problem. One of my 60 gallon tanks is crystal clear. The fish are healthy and it looks like bottled water. The other 60 which is the problem has a grey tint to it and it is driving me nuts . Its been there ever since I first put up the tank. The fish are extremely healthy, but it is unpleasent to the Human Eye. Before the filters I had on it are the Magnum 250 Pro and a Aqua Clear 110, but now I added a new Magnum 350 to help and it still did not fix it. Right now in the 350 in the filter media pocket is Matrix Premium Natural Biofilter Support Media. In the 250 I have Carbon and the Aqua 110 is standard stuff foam, carbon and ammonia chips. What is going on. If you have any advice it would be great to hear.

60 Gallon Tank

5- Silver Dollars 3"-5"
1- Orange BloodParrot 5"
1- Green Severum 4"
1- Watermelon Royal Pleco 3"
1 Sailfin Pleco 6"
1 Common Pleco 9"

 

[Nic]

did you try the diatom media for the magnums that supposed to polish the water crystal clear

 

[gman]

How often do you do water changes and how large? How often do you feed?

 

[Mr Pleco]

I feed them once every two days. I feed them raw shrimp and blood worms every two days and then in the morning some pellets. I have been looking at a of local pet stores. No not petsmart or petco but family own ones and no diatom media

 

[messiner]

try removing the carbon and ammo chips, is you have them in too long they will leech back out into your tank and cause water problems

 

[fish head )'>]

could it be the decor? I once added some driftwood that, because of the type of wood, tea stained the water.

check: rocks, gravel and decorations that may be leeching something into the water.

 

[Mr Pleco]

It is starting to finally clear up. I spent about 40 bucks on nitra zorb for each filter, polywool, diatom media and then two days later a 50% water change, took out the ammo chips and bam it getting clear. Thanks for your input. Speaking of decor once I lost an entire tank because of that. The store I bought decor for fish tanks mis-marked them and it was unprotected decor for reptiles. So mad.

This is what the tank used to look like.

 

[hoss62773]

try removing the carbon and ammo chips, is you have them in too long they will leech back out into your tank and cause water problems

I didn't know that about carbon. guess it's time to remove mine too

 

[Dovii dude]

Looks like a Bacteria bloom,i am going through the same thing right now.

 

[Mr Pleco]

yeah I picked up three bags of nitra-zorb one for each filter, pack my 350 with polywool, and did a massive water change. I was looking foward to losing some fish, but I guess they were healthy enough to take what I did to the tank. I am trying to get a new pic up soon to show a comparsion to before and after, but my sister has the camera.