Cichlidlovers
Aquarium Advice Regular
First sorry for this post as I am sure cloudy water has been a topic many times, but this darn search engine is to broad. Anywho I have setup a 90 gal fw Cichlid tank. I have made many mistakes first of all being letting my husband wash the rocks that he bought without supervision (he used soap wich he didn't tell me about for 3 weeks ) second which i didn't let the tank cycle properly, of course it would with the soap in the water! Anwho I went and put my africans in this tank as the ph was fine (at that point was the only test kit i had) and went and bought a hand caught Ngara Flametail male and two females. All was well other than cloudy water the fish seemed fine, until I notice fungus on the male flametail, and my poor cobalts eyes were popping out. I promptly quarantined these two and and medicated all tank with melifix and pimafix. Then I bought a full range test kit and was shocked at my levels, Ph and ammonia were fine but the nitrites 5.0 and nitrates fluctuated from 40 to 160!! Well it's been a long road but thank god no deaths the offending rocks have been removed and many water changes later and a new hob filter as well as the fluval 404. The nitrites have stabilized at 0 but the nitrates after 2 days drops again and the water goes cloudy. I have some incredible fish on order and will be here in a week or so and I have no desire to lose any.
Any ideas as to why the water keeps getting cloudy and does it have anything to do with the nitrates?
Any ideas as to why the water keeps getting cloudy and does it have anything to do with the nitrates?