Christmasfish
Aquarium Advice Addict
Yesterday I was cleaning and moving things around in the 18 gallon to make it easier for my knife fish to move about and eat. While getting the excess gravel(large gravel) out I hit a deep spot and threw brown algae aaalll over the tank! Auugh! For now I put one of the extra corner type filter on the tank (it is UGF). Is there anything else I can do? The clarity had just started improving with the addition of the big snails and the loaches. The bamboo will finish some of it off (I threw two more in)
i used rinsed silk nylon to get a large potion of it out..but now its cloudy with ick! The water parameters are okay...it just brought the nitrAtes up by .02. They are dropping today so far. I did a quick 50% change and poured the new in carefully in with a seive. Bleh! This is like the stuff I suck up through the uptake tube of the UGF sometimes. Big dust bunnies of fluffy muck!
How long before it settles? And will the sponge filter take most of it away?
i used rinsed silk nylon to get a large potion of it out..but now its cloudy with ick! The water parameters are okay...it just brought the nitrAtes up by .02. They are dropping today so far. I did a quick 50% change and poured the new in carefully in with a seive. Bleh! This is like the stuff I suck up through the uptake tube of the UGF sometimes. Big dust bunnies of fluffy muck!
How long before it settles? And will the sponge filter take most of it away?