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OK, I have never heard of this. I don't know what I did or what caused it. My fish are ok so far but I'm worried about it.
As some of you know, I did a major overhaul to my tank recently. I wanted to avoid cycling so I took it easy. I just replaced the gravel and did a pwc and left it at that. There was still cyano on the back and sides of the tank. The next water change would be when I moved the tank to the new house.
Well, I moved tanks today. The 10 gallon went great, no issues, the single yellow lab was spooked for a bit but was eating and normal by the time I left. The problem is with the 30 gallon. I saved ~20 gallons of water, moved the tank and filled it up. The time from emptying the tank in the old place to filling it up in the new was about 1 hour. I used some tap water to top off the tank.
Quick info about the tap water in my house. It's a well, there's no chlorine in it. The water tasted a bit hard (I'm a bit of a water connoisseur Wink), but I figured it wouldn't hurt the fish to just use it to top off the tank. It is a brand new house, brand new well, and was just tested by the health department. The water out of the tap was perfectly clear. I went off to move some other stuff, and then checked back to check out how my little guys were doing.
Here's the weird part--the cyano patches were shrinking before my eyes and emitting some weird orange cloudy stuff! Has anyone ever seen or heard of this? What did I do??? I didn't want to do another pwc, in case it was the tap water that caused it. It stopped in a few hours, the last time I checked the fish were acting perfectly normal but there was a definite orange tint to the water. I'm just worried that I'll come home to a dead tank when I go back to the house tomorrow Crying or Very sad.
As some of you know, I did a major overhaul to my tank recently. I wanted to avoid cycling so I took it easy. I just replaced the gravel and did a pwc and left it at that. There was still cyano on the back and sides of the tank. The next water change would be when I moved the tank to the new house.
Well, I moved tanks today. The 10 gallon went great, no issues, the single yellow lab was spooked for a bit but was eating and normal by the time I left. The problem is with the 30 gallon. I saved ~20 gallons of water, moved the tank and filled it up. The time from emptying the tank in the old place to filling it up in the new was about 1 hour. I used some tap water to top off the tank.
Quick info about the tap water in my house. It's a well, there's no chlorine in it. The water tasted a bit hard (I'm a bit of a water connoisseur Wink), but I figured it wouldn't hurt the fish to just use it to top off the tank. It is a brand new house, brand new well, and was just tested by the health department. The water out of the tap was perfectly clear. I went off to move some other stuff, and then checked back to check out how my little guys were doing.
Here's the weird part--the cyano patches were shrinking before my eyes and emitting some weird orange cloudy stuff! Has anyone ever seen or heard of this? What did I do??? I didn't want to do another pwc, in case it was the tap water that caused it. It stopped in a few hours, the last time I checked the fish were acting perfectly normal but there was a definite orange tint to the water. I'm just worried that I'll come home to a dead tank when I go back to the house tomorrow Crying or Very sad.