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Ok, to try to answer your questions in order: To be honest, it was maybe crystal clear for the first two weeks after we set it up :-) But seriously, it was only in the past two months or so that the water quality started to seriously deteriorate - right about now it still looks a lot like pea...

Thanks a lot for your reply. The tank has been setup for roughly eight months. We never emptied it to change all the water, instead we just empty it 3/4 and pour clean distilled water in. We have a number of rocks, which have a fair coating of algae by now, but we also have a plecoe who does...

I am using an API Filstar XP1 filter, with a 30 gallon aquarium. My problem is that the actual filtering is dismal (my aquarium has murky green water). I have done everything by the book (yes, I have the inflow and outflow in their correct places). For media, I use two sponges at the bottom...