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- From: kagar@dtc.kodak.com (Keith Agar)
- Subject: [F] Cloudy water problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.182317.9514@pixel.kodak.com>
- Originator: kagar@kagar
- Sender: news@pixel.kodak.com
- Organization: Digital Technology Center
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 18:23:17 GMT
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- I have a problem with cloudy water in my 29 gal. freshwater tank.
- This tank was started when I upgraded from my 10 gal. (which had been
- running fine for 1 year) 6 weeks ago. I transferred all the gravel
- from the 10g to the 29g. Moved the Aquaclear Mini filter over as well.
- The 29g had a new Aquaclear200 filter and an UG with a Hagen301 powerhead.
- I left the Mini filter running with these new ones for 2 weeks to
- allow them time to get established.
-
- I added about 20lbs of new gravel to the tank as well, and I think my
- problem may be due to poor washing of this gravel. After 2 weeks of
- running the 29g, the water was still cloudy. Only after using 2
- doses of Brite N'Clear solution, and 1 dose of Crystal Clear did the
- water clear up. The Aquaclear200 sponge had to be rinsed thoroughly
- between doses to clean out the whitish gunk that got trapped.
-
- Well, I did my first water change two days ago and the problem is back.
- When siphoning the gravel, tremendous amounts of whitish silt was suctioned
- out of the gravel. A lot got kicked up into water as well, and there
- it remains. The water clearing solutions don't seem to be doing the
- trick this time, and I am nervous about its affect on the fish.
-
- Should I:
-
- 1) Move the current fish to a temporary holding bucket and siphon all the
- remaining tank water out (cleaning gravel as I do it) and repeat until
- the gravel is clean?
-
- 2) Move the fish to a temporary holding bucket, throw out the gravel and
- replace with new, thoroughly washed gravel? Oh yeah, the new gravel
- I added to the 29g is much finer than the 10g gravel I started with,
- the grains are ~1/16" (the 10g stuff more like 1/8" to 1/4").
-
- 3) None of the above because the gravel isn't my problem.
-
- Current tank residents:
-
- (1) Betta
- (2) Black tetras (1")
- (5) Serpae tetras (1/2")
- (5) Bleeding hearts (1")
- (2) Male dwarf gouramis (2")
- (1) Angelfish (1.5")
- (1) Clown Pl*co (1.5")
- (1) Chinese algae (2")
- (1) Male swordtail (2")
- (1) Cardinal tetra
-
- pH = 7.0-7.2
- Ammonia = 0
- Unknown nitrate/nitrite (pet store test says okay)
-
- The day after the water change my first angelfish (1") died. I only had
- it a few days so my pet store replaced it last night after testing my
- water.
-
- Thanks for any help!
-
- kagar@dtc.kodak.com
-