AndySmithers
Aquarium Advice Regular
Hi all,
For the past 6 weeks I've been battling cloudy water.
The history is that 6 weeks ago I went on vacation. Before I went on vacation I had a pretty bad hair algae problem - but clear water.
During my vacation the fish were fed hardly at all and, when I came back, I could hardly see into the tank for algae all over the glass - the water was also a bit 'murky'.
I cleaned the glass as best I could, did water changes etc., but, since then the water has got steadily worse.
Strangeley the hair algae has now almost gone and, even stranger, the fish seem totally oblivious to the terrible water - they feed well, are growing and generally look well.
Water params. are:
PH:8.4. Amm:0, Nitrite:0, Nitrate: 2.5 (that right? - the lowest reading on the scale), Calc:410.
The tank is a 90 AGA with a prizm skimmer, 135lbs LR, 2" sand and 3 perculas, 1 yellow tang, a green brittle star and assorted clean up crew.
The 'engineer' in me says 'get a filter!'. I've seen many a diatom filter advertised to 'quickly clear cloudy water'. I look at my swimming pool water with that's crystal clear with one of these, then I look at my tank and think 'hmmmm.....'.
For the record the 'cloudiness' doesn't seem like 'swirling smoke' but just looks, well, baasically like dirty water. I feed the fish twice a day with a variety of things (frozen, flakes, pellets) but only enough that gets eaten (well, 'annhialated' would be a better word!) in about a minute or so.
What gives? Surely many people have faced this issue???
Help!!!
Andy. :?
For the past 6 weeks I've been battling cloudy water.
The history is that 6 weeks ago I went on vacation. Before I went on vacation I had a pretty bad hair algae problem - but clear water.
During my vacation the fish were fed hardly at all and, when I came back, I could hardly see into the tank for algae all over the glass - the water was also a bit 'murky'.
I cleaned the glass as best I could, did water changes etc., but, since then the water has got steadily worse.
Strangeley the hair algae has now almost gone and, even stranger, the fish seem totally oblivious to the terrible water - they feed well, are growing and generally look well.
Water params. are:
PH:8.4. Amm:0, Nitrite:0, Nitrate: 2.5 (that right? - the lowest reading on the scale), Calc:410.
The tank is a 90 AGA with a prizm skimmer, 135lbs LR, 2" sand and 3 perculas, 1 yellow tang, a green brittle star and assorted clean up crew.
The 'engineer' in me says 'get a filter!'. I've seen many a diatom filter advertised to 'quickly clear cloudy water'. I look at my swimming pool water with that's crystal clear with one of these, then I look at my tank and think 'hmmmm.....'.
For the record the 'cloudiness' doesn't seem like 'swirling smoke' but just looks, well, baasically like dirty water. I feed the fish twice a day with a variety of things (frozen, flakes, pellets) but only enough that gets eaten (well, 'annhialated' would be a better word!) in about a minute or so.
What gives? Surely many people have faced this issue???
Help!!!
Andy. :?