I am new on this i will like to know if its to much i should add or remove anything?? And how i can make the water more transparent wirhout remove the fishes as per i have baby snails and some shrimps and eel i can catch
Wow have of it i dont know i have the aquarium 2 month i mix natural plants with arrificial to give some hiding placea to the shrimps and eels the cucumber i a giving once a week i keep for the nigh and in the morning i remove and i haveThe cloudiness is called a bacterial bloom. Its a normal stage new aquariums go through. Its bacteria in the water feeding on excess nutrients. As your cycle establishes and the nutrients get more into balance it normally clears up on its own.
How long has your aquarium been set up?
Do you know your water parameters? pH, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate?
How big is the tank and what fish do have? How many of each species?
Without some more information the liklihood is that your tank isnt cycled. What do you understand about the nitrogen cycle? Do you know how to cycle a tank?
One thing i see from the photos is a lot of vegetables pegged down in the substrate. That looks like a lot of food thats going to degrade and make water quality go off. How long are you leaving those veggies in the aquarium before removing them?
Wow have of it i dont know i have the aquarium 2 month i mix natural plants with arrificial to give some hiding placea to the shrimps and eels the cucumber i a giving once a week i keep for the nigh and in the morning i remove and i have
Tiger barbs 3
Albino corydora catfish 1
Angel fish 1
Common moly 4
Borneo loac 1
Pleco 1
Water snail 3 and 3 baby
Shrimp 4 they get babies i dont know how many
Eels 2
I dont know themI'm sure others will want to know more about your tank water ammo ph nitrites nitrates how long has it been running?
FYI, Fritz Aquatic now has a liquid test that rivals API's kit for accuracy. Filtration | Freshwater Home AquariumsDon't mind me listen to Aiken. Him and Andy are my two go to guys if I really want to know what is going on in my tank. However I will say you do need a test kit. This is a good starter kit.
Youtube is not the only answer out there and anyone can make and post a video without having any real information on the subject. It's a fairly new product ( less than a year) but it's been reviewed before and shown to be very accurate.I'll give it a try when my API runs out. Could not find a good youtube on it. One I did see looks like the color charts may be easier to read.
Please feel free to contribute to the forum. Everyones experience is valuable and we learn more from contributing than just sitting on the sidelines listening in.Don't mind me listen to Aiken. Him and Andy are my two go to guys if I really want to know what is going on in my tank. However I will say you do need a test kit. This is a good starter kit.
If that's the case, you might want to look into digital monitors so that you are seeing numbers instead of interpreting colors. A couple of members on some other sites I belong to are color blind and they said they really helped them.Andy I agree about youtube I was just wanting to see how the color charts looked compared to API. I'm blind in one eye and the other one is getting old. If the sun is not out I use a super bright light to use the test kit but still some of those colors are hard to read. I did see a kit where you look down through the test tube and slide it over the chart I'll need to find the name and see what you think of it been a few months back.
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