richie Posted March 18, 2004 Report Share Posted March 18, 2004 I am running out of ideas and thought i would give you guys a crack at this. Tank Aqua one, setup 7 months clear water, now developed cloudy water. i can see suspended particules. 2 cory, 1 plec, 5 neon, 10 male gup. no direct sunlight. also now a foam is building up on water surface. filter as part of hood design. remidies tried Replaced carbon, replaced filter wool/washed filter wool, replaced ceramic bio balls over period of one week, cut down light/increased light. decreased water changes to 1/4 every two weeks. increased stress zyme in water changes(adding bacteria). tested amonia ok, tested nitrate and nitrite ok. water hardness acceptable. added two tea spoons of (marine) salt to tank after each water change. Oh and i keep using the Clumping agent too, no effect. All these things have been tried and mostly one at a time with about one week between so as to isolate the problem. I have another tank which is clear, i run the same maintance principles on the tanks same tap water, however it has a larger Bio mass of fish. and no issues. the biggest difference would be that it has an external Harger Mini filter with only foam, charcol and amonia chips. I have done all this and the only thing that makes it better is to do a water change evey day or Two to get rid of suspended particles/cloudy water. I have had fish for about 5 years and never had this problem, plese help I am getting fed up with this unsightly water. :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suemack Posted March 19, 2004 Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 hi there richie had this problem with my 29 gall tank too.....added another filter as I was only running one aquaclear 150 and it seems to have sorted the problem. I do twice weekly smaller w/changes in there as there's a lot of bottom feeders who are more comfortable with the substrate being ultraclean sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richie Posted March 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 I was going to try this but it would be messy at currently it is a all in one hood. and because it ran fine for 7months I am trying to make it run as it did previous. But thanks for the sugestion on this option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted March 19, 2004 Report Share Posted March 19, 2004 It may have been fine up until now but surely the fish have grown since then? Sounds to me like the filter is not good enough to handle the larger particles (plecs produce VERY large particles ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JK Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 this soounds very similar to my cloudy water issue that i posted in freshwater section not so long ago. thought i had cured it but looks to have returned :-? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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