What is the key to maintaining a barebottom tank>?

[syndicate]

Why would you piss off your fish with a bare bottom tank.
How would it piss them off ??

that would scare the hell out of a fish the bottom is basicly a mirror

neg only looks like a mirror from out side the tank try looking down from the top alls u will see is syro or your stand

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[Austin]

Why would you piss off your fish with a bare bottom tank.


that would scare the hell out of a fish the bottom is basicly a mirror

what does this mean, quite a few people run bare bottom's chief. bottom only looks like a mirror from the side, try looking straight down into it...


back on subject. sounds like you need more bio. all my tanks are bare bottom and are perfectly clear but i overdo the in-filter bio media.

 

[Bderick67]

Yes bio media is really necessary. A barebottom tank is no place for this bio revolution that seems to have been argued by a few members here.

LOL at their bare bottom set up Oh wait...I am being an A-hole?

 

[aznfab213]

Why would you piss off your fish with a bare bottom tank.


that would scare the hell out of a fish the bottom is basicly a mirror

Dude take a . The tank just does not have gravel but does have some protective colored paper underneath

how often do you change your water? and how much bio media do you have?

I change my water every week to every 2 weeks. I have a 5 ply jebo filter that has 2 trays of ceramic rings, 2 with activated carbon, and one with a sponge. Each tray has mesh on top of it.

Key for me is adequate turnover. My 90 gallon is barebottom and never has a spec of debris on it. The bichirs help stir up whatever may end up on the bottom but nothing ever does.

Its a 48X18 footprint but its got a fluval 405 an AC110 and an eheim 2215 as well as the 18 watt turbo twist attached to an aquaclear 50 powerhead which also stirs up the bottom. I dont ever vacuum anything off the bottom let alone find anything to vaccum im happy

As far as your water being cloudy... What are the parameters how old is it ? What are you feeding ?

Well pretty much I ma just feeding the tank as much as it can finish in 2 minutes such as hikari sinking bio gold, carnivore pellets, and freeze dried shrimp

what color cloudy white like fog or brown tea or green pea soup?

The water does not really have a color to it. It is just like a fog in the water.

I have done several water changes to correct this, but it would eventually come back..

 

[Citrinellus]

Do more water changes once every two weeks is not sufficient and you didn't say the % of water you change.

 

[tcarswell]

Sounds to me like a bacterial bloom. Should sort itself out.

 

[aznfab213]

Do more water changes once every two weeks is not sufficient and you didn't say the % of water you change.

oh sorry bout that i usually do a 30-40% change

Sounds to me like a bacterial bloom. Should sort itself out.

oh ok.