Relic1882
Aquarium Advice Regular
I have a 29 gallon freshwater. Currently I'm pretty sure I'm going through a mini-cycle or something but I wanted to confirm the cloudyness. As some may know all of my cichlids died from an unknown disease, so I am redoing the tank a little bit. I have a biowheel that should have had my biofiltration on it before. Other than that I changed my 2 cartridge filters and added a bio-bag with waste removers in it and added filter floss to help get the tiny stuff out.
When my incident happened a couple weeks ago. all of my fish died. The water got very cloudy. I changed 50% of the water after removing the dead fish and I added the stuff I mentioned above. The water was absolutely crystal clear. I can't describe how clear. It was like looking out a window cleaned with streak free Windex. I added 1 very small angel fish, a very small pleco and some neons after everything was all good. They looked like they were floating in mid-air. It's been 2 days and this morning my water had a slight haze to it if I looked at it through the side. I got home from work and now it's a little bit worse. You can't tell if the light's off, but it's still noticable more from the side.
My ammonia is between 1 or 2 ppm. My pH keeps dropping to 6 so I'm using Mardel's buffer-up to increase the buffering capacity because I'm sure I need it. I'm using the buffer-up only when I do a water change so I don't affect the fish.
Is there any other particular reason why my water is getting a little worse as it goes? I know I don't overfeed and my ammonia I thought it too low to make that kind of difference. Is it because I might be mini-cycling? I just want to find out before it gets worse if it does. Thanks.
When my incident happened a couple weeks ago. all of my fish died. The water got very cloudy. I changed 50% of the water after removing the dead fish and I added the stuff I mentioned above. The water was absolutely crystal clear. I can't describe how clear. It was like looking out a window cleaned with streak free Windex. I added 1 very small angel fish, a very small pleco and some neons after everything was all good. They looked like they were floating in mid-air. It's been 2 days and this morning my water had a slight haze to it if I looked at it through the side. I got home from work and now it's a little bit worse. You can't tell if the light's off, but it's still noticable more from the side.
My ammonia is between 1 or 2 ppm. My pH keeps dropping to 6 so I'm using Mardel's buffer-up to increase the buffering capacity because I'm sure I need it. I'm using the buffer-up only when I do a water change so I don't affect the fish.
Is there any other particular reason why my water is getting a little worse as it goes? I know I don't overfeed and my ammonia I thought it too low to make that kind of difference. Is it because I might be mini-cycling? I just want to find out before it gets worse if it does. Thanks.