Good morning,
My husband and I just bought a 120 gallon aquarium and filled it and started it up 4 days ago. We added what we needed to in order to make our tap water safe, etc.
We have 2 Penguin dual Bio Wheel filters running and we figured it must not be enough because our water started to get a bit cloudy yesterday morning. I took a trip down to a specialty fish store yesterday and ended up coming home with a Marineland Maxum 350 Cannister polisher/filter.
My question is, we followed the instructions to polish the water (added 3/4 cup of diatom powder) filled the cannister to the level the instructions said and turned it on. It did everything the guy at the store told me it would (blow a puff of white powder into the tank, which would last about 20 minutes). However, it's been about 15 hours now since we started it up and the water doesn't look any better than it did before we hooked it up.
I also noticed when I turned it off to make sure everything was running the way it should, that the special filter thing that is supposed to be used for the polishing function had accumulated a lot of diatom powder that fell off and to the bottom of the cannister once the machine was shut off and the water stopped moving.
Is something not working right here or do I need to give it much more time? At what point do we put the regular filter (filled with charcoal) back in?
I apologize for my lack of proper terminology, as I said, I'm new to this. Any and all information (in simpleman terms if possible please!) is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
My husband and I just bought a 120 gallon aquarium and filled it and started it up 4 days ago. We added what we needed to in order to make our tap water safe, etc.
We have 2 Penguin dual Bio Wheel filters running and we figured it must not be enough because our water started to get a bit cloudy yesterday morning. I took a trip down to a specialty fish store yesterday and ended up coming home with a Marineland Maxum 350 Cannister polisher/filter.
My question is, we followed the instructions to polish the water (added 3/4 cup of diatom powder) filled the cannister to the level the instructions said and turned it on. It did everything the guy at the store told me it would (blow a puff of white powder into the tank, which would last about 20 minutes). However, it's been about 15 hours now since we started it up and the water doesn't look any better than it did before we hooked it up.
I also noticed when I turned it off to make sure everything was running the way it should, that the special filter thing that is supposed to be used for the polishing function had accumulated a lot of diatom powder that fell off and to the bottom of the cannister once the machine was shut off and the water stopped moving.
Is something not working right here or do I need to give it much more time? At what point do we put the regular filter (filled with charcoal) back in?
I apologize for my lack of proper terminology, as I said, I'm new to this. Any and all information (in simpleman terms if possible please!) is greatly appreciated.
Thanks!