umm im in no place to be certain but if it sat in a drained tank for a week meaning there is probably still water in the sand couldnt that water continue to cycle and the bb thats in the sand eventually just die and create sludge.
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Without the tank being properly cycled, there wouldn't be enough BB to form a "cloud creating sludge" in the new tank. BB will die off quickly without a food source, but take even longer to become established in the substrate of a tank.
Not directly but yes, they could aid in accelerating a unicellular algae. What bacteria there was would die, producing ammonia, which along with any detritus still in the water would be great for growing algae.cipolla6;1923350;1923350 said:
could be algae bloom even with no light.... my tank went cloudy as hell before from not enough light from what i gathered...
But it was like an instant algae bloom then. I mean I filled the tank and right when I added the sand it got cloudy and still to this day remains cloudy...
what do I do? Run a filter on it with cycled media?
what do I do? Run a filter on it with cycled media?
When you dumped the sand in was the water already in the tank? Even well washed sand will create a cloud when added to water. The retained cloud is likely an algae bloom.
Agreed, anything with weight should have settled, algae won't. and no one considered the probability of anaerobic bacteria build up.
Anyway, check the chemistry, see if you can get your hands on a diatom filter (or polishing pads in your filter) and clean it up.
Dr Joe
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Anyway, check the chemistry, see if you can get your hands on a diatom filter (or polishing pads in your filter) and clean it up.
Dr Joe
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Thought crossed my mind, but with the lack of fish and time, there shouldn't have been a large buildup of nutrients for the heterotrophic bacteria to reproduce in that kind of number.Dr Joe;1927554;1927554 said:
Between the last tank it was in and it's current tank did you sit it out to dry or anything or did it add the sand wet from one tank to the other.
