thetmaxx
Aquarium Advice Activist
This has been going on for sometime now, and I've posted here once before, about it, and tried to get rid of it with some of your help, but it has remained cloudy.
When I say quite sometime, I think it's on 5-6 Months now. And I think it started after I got my 40watt Light Hood. I don't think this 40 watt hood is an abundance of light, that would cause this.
What it is exactly... A white apearing cloudiness, but during water changes which are perfromed every week, in 25% volumes, water is drained into a white bucket, and instantly you can see the water is really green. After a water change, it looks better, but is fully back in a week's time.
What I have tried... leaving the lights off. a week of no light, (not covering the tank up) makes a huge difference!! however, my amazon sword doesn't do too well, so I only did this twice, and my sword is still recovering.
I've also tried to buy a phosphate test kit, but none of the LFS's carry them, not even Capitol Aquarium, which is like the biggest aquarium store in SAC. So just to try, I put a Phosphate removing pad in the Whisper HOB filter, had no effect.
I change my filters reqularly, and lightly rinse my bio sponge, filter media thingy. One thing I have noticed is dark green spot algae growing on a lot of stuff in the tank. my otto doesn't get it, and my CAE's are too big for algae anymore. I recently added a bristlenosed pleco to the tank on monday, and haven't seen a differnce. The thinking here was that maybe the algae on the walls is releasing algae spores into the water? will one bristle nose pleco clean it?
Current water perameters:
nitrate - 30ppm
nitrite - 0ppm
hardness - 120ppm
alkalinity - 100ppm
pH - 7.2
ammonia - 0ppm
temp- 76F
current inhabitants:
6 - corydoras
2- CAE
1 - SAE
2 - Columbian tetras
2- cherry barbs
1- tiger barb
1-otto
1-bristlenose pleco
I can't figure this being a huge over feeding problem, as the corys go crazy all day cleaning up what food hasn't been eaten by everyone else. and i vacuum the gravel every weekend. below are 2 pics, one is when i got the light, notice the clarity, and the other is how it looks now, although the photo looks better than the tank (my dig. camera has a tendancy to under expose everything!)
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When I say quite sometime, I think it's on 5-6 Months now. And I think it started after I got my 40watt Light Hood. I don't think this 40 watt hood is an abundance of light, that would cause this.
What it is exactly... A white apearing cloudiness, but during water changes which are perfromed every week, in 25% volumes, water is drained into a white bucket, and instantly you can see the water is really green. After a water change, it looks better, but is fully back in a week's time.
What I have tried... leaving the lights off. a week of no light, (not covering the tank up) makes a huge difference!! however, my amazon sword doesn't do too well, so I only did this twice, and my sword is still recovering.
I've also tried to buy a phosphate test kit, but none of the LFS's carry them, not even Capitol Aquarium, which is like the biggest aquarium store in SAC. So just to try, I put a Phosphate removing pad in the Whisper HOB filter, had no effect.
I change my filters reqularly, and lightly rinse my bio sponge, filter media thingy. One thing I have noticed is dark green spot algae growing on a lot of stuff in the tank. my otto doesn't get it, and my CAE's are too big for algae anymore. I recently added a bristlenosed pleco to the tank on monday, and haven't seen a differnce. The thinking here was that maybe the algae on the walls is releasing algae spores into the water? will one bristle nose pleco clean it?
Current water perameters:
nitrate - 30ppm
nitrite - 0ppm
hardness - 120ppm
alkalinity - 100ppm
pH - 7.2
ammonia - 0ppm
temp- 76F
current inhabitants:
6 - corydoras
2- CAE
1 - SAE
2 - Columbian tetras
2- cherry barbs
1- tiger barb
1-otto
1-bristlenose pleco
I can't figure this being a huge over feeding problem, as the corys go crazy all day cleaning up what food hasn't been eaten by everyone else. and i vacuum the gravel every weekend. below are 2 pics, one is when i got the light, notice the clarity, and the other is how it looks now, although the photo looks better than the tank (my dig. camera has a tendancy to under expose everything!)