Recent content by Vickitty123

In my experience, smaller water changes (probably just more frequently) and less scrubbing down of their ornaments is what helps the cloudiness.

I will say, during the water changes I would also ignorantly scrub off all the ornaments and scrub out the filter in the sink. These were dark times lol

Often cloudy water is due to a bacterial bloom, usually related to too frequent or too big water chanhes at a time. When I had 10 gallons with only a betta or 2, I would excessivesly change 50 percent once a week which killed more beneficial bacteria than it promoted causing cloudiness. Whats...

Hi! My name is Vic and I currently have 4 fish tanks set up. -5 gallon with a female betta(Opal), and 2 amano shrimp with an anubias nana that is quite established and doing well. -20 gallon long that i just set up with a filter, heater, 12hr light system, and has just a bamboo stick in it -3.5...

First time poster! I just set up my 20 gallon long today, filtered, heated, has an old sponge filter from my last 10 gallon sandwiched in a new one, and an led light that is 1/3 the length of the tank, as well as a swirly bamboo plant with the leaves above water. I plan on adding plants and...