what is up with my tank

[Nate Dogg]

I have a 90 gallon tank that stays filthy. I did a 70% water change and with in 1 week the tank has a Amazon water color to it. I can run 3 packets of purigen and it barely makes a difference (the purigen does change color). Also "stuff" piles up in a corner behind a second piece of drift wood. The main piece looks fuzzy and if I push water over my tank gets filled with "debris". My filter is a emperor 400 and the pads get completely covered in under a week. The wood came from a friend and he never had a problem. What is going on my 125 cichlid tank with 20 5ich cichlids and that tank stays cleaner.

The tank has a very large piece of drift wood, the stock is 6 rio something (lost the bag that had the name) slightly under 2 inches a 5inch black ghost knife 8 or so jewel cichlids 2inches and under and a royal pleco 3 inches.

 

[craigthor]

Needs more filter and flow and doing more waterchanges each week

 

[cyberhog05]

Your driftwood is leeching tannins into your water and possibly creating dead spots of circulation. The white fuzzy stuff is normal. Scrub the dw with a brush. I use a dish brush. I clean all my dw once a month or when I rearrange my tank.

 

[poppalina]

The royal pleco is also eating the drift wood putting it into the water column