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10:30pm usually

We turn on the blue light about 8AM then the brighter light when I get home from work about 6PM. Typically we feed once a day in the early evening. Since this cloudiness has grown, that's been cut back to every other day and about half as much. We've tried to be careful but not careful enough...

Ok, water has a definite greenish tint.

API test kit. While I did add some cycle starter at the beginning in Dec and waited for the bacterial bloom that followed to go away before adding any fish, this may well be another bacterial bloom, albeit with a definite greenish tint. Can it be a bacterial bloom if my numbers are all good...

Ok, ammonia was .25, nitrites and nitrates were 0, pH was 7.6. Maybe important to note, I added second filter a month ago, hoping to achieve crystal clear water. Did not have hoped for results.

Boy, am I feeling stupid. I couldn't figure outnhow to post a new thread and inadvertently "stole" someone else's. Thanks to the kind soul who let me know. Anyway, forgot to include the fact that I have a 55 gallon tank in which are 3 black skirt tetras, 3 zebra danios, 4 angel fish, 3 lamp...

Hello. I'm a newbie, started tank Dec 19' 2010 so it's about 3 1/2 mos established. Have 3 black skirt tetras,4 angelfish, 6 neon tetras, 3 lamp eye tetras, 3 zebra danios, 2 platys, 2 snails and 3 golden rams. Haven't lost any fish in a while and fish seem happy and healthy. Just introduced...

So happy to have found this. As a beginner, have a million questions and the aquarium keeps changing giving rise to new ones. I have a 55 gallon tank with 3 black skirt tetras, 4 angels, 3 zebra danios, 2 platys, 1 Chinese algae eater, 3 red eye tetras, and 6 neon tetras and lots and lots of...