yellow water

[tmdavies]

my water has a yellow tinge the longer i leave it the yellower it gets. my water parametres are all perfect, has anyone experienced this before.
the only thing i suspect it may be is rusting plant weights?

 

[tinkster87]

I haven't had weights in mine so I don't know about that, do you have any bog wood in the tank?

 

[tmdavies]

i have driftwood in there i made sure all the tannins were out of it before i put it in, was good for the first 2 months then started going yellow

 

[tinkster87]

i have driftwood in there i made sure all the tannins were out of it before i put it in, was good for the first 2 months then started going yellow

Ah ok, thats my one idea exhausted

hopefully somebody else might have an idea esp regarding weights, as I said before I have not used them before so can't advise.

Hope it gets solved!

 

[tmdavies]

iv just taken them off the plants they were pretty rusty hopefully this will solve it

 

[xxwolfpackof1xx]

if you need weights use something inert like lead you may want to run fresh carbon to take any nasties out the rust may have leached

 

[Retired_AF]

I had an issue with yellowing water. Turned out to be the liquid ferts I was using (well, overusing to be exact).

 

[tmdavies]

maybe it could be my ferts i use seachem npk i follow the guidlines on the bottle but i may be doing it wrong