Have a problem with my Edge 6.6 tank.
A few days ago I cleaned out my crystal clear, well established, perfect water param tank because I am getting Orange Eye Blue Tiger (OEBT) shrimp in the mail this week. Took out over 100 Cherry shrimp and put them into my 16G Shrimp tank.
There was lots of gunk in the bottom of the tank under the sand, with 7 rocks and tons of plants, decided to take out everything and rinse the sand and re-scape.
So I did, I rinsed the sand with treated water. put it back into the tank, added an extra five pounds of petco sand, rinsed, re-scaped and added back what I wanted, all the rocks, a new piece of Driftwood which had been soaking for over a week in the other tank, and half of the plants. I left the three Brigittae Rasboras and added three little young guppies to keep up the BB until the OEBT came. Was going to remove the guppies back to their tank.
This is before:
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The water is foaming. Although I washed my hands and my arms before
doing the scape change and sand rinsing, there must have been some lotion residue. Now the filter flow with the water is creating foam. This could explain why the water isn't crystal clear. I use Prime. Also added some stress Coat-Coat for good measure.
At first I thought it was from the Stress-Coat. But this isn't like that, that is more bubbly but goes away after a day or two.
The foam is sort of dense like on a non fat latte, and sort of holds its shape.
I already scooped most of it off about an hour ago, and reduced the flow half it was really foaming up on full blast!
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Already did a 50% pwc the day after.
I will be doing a 75% pwc now to see if that helps and then probably another tomorrow after work, and maybe another after that if it doesn't stop.
This is the tank the Orange Eye Blue Tigers are supposed to go into. The fish are all active and not breathing heavy and eating fine. The lotion was a natural lotion, at this point not immediately toxic, since they are still alive. So hopefully not toxic.
I am just petrified it could have/or be killing the BB, anybody have any ideas, other than pwc's? What about the BB?
How can I tell if it is still alive?
Added the foamy water pic and cloudy water pic. It is slightly cloudy and has a brown tinge from the DW tannins I believe. Camera isn't very good sorry.
A few days ago I cleaned out my crystal clear, well established, perfect water param tank because I am getting Orange Eye Blue Tiger (OEBT) shrimp in the mail this week. Took out over 100 Cherry shrimp and put them into my 16G Shrimp tank.
There was lots of gunk in the bottom of the tank under the sand, with 7 rocks and tons of plants, decided to take out everything and rinse the sand and re-scape.
So I did, I rinsed the sand with treated water. put it back into the tank, added an extra five pounds of petco sand, rinsed, re-scaped and added back what I wanted, all the rocks, a new piece of Driftwood which had been soaking for over a week in the other tank, and half of the plants. I left the three Brigittae Rasboras and added three little young guppies to keep up the BB until the OEBT came. Was going to remove the guppies back to their tank.
This is before:
The water is foaming. Although I washed my hands and my arms before
doing the scape change and sand rinsing, there must have been some lotion residue. Now the filter flow with the water is creating foam. This could explain why the water isn't crystal clear. I use Prime. Also added some stress Coat-Coat for good measure.
At first I thought it was from the Stress-Coat. But this isn't like that, that is more bubbly but goes away after a day or two.
The foam is sort of dense like on a non fat latte, and sort of holds its shape.
I already scooped most of it off about an hour ago, and reduced the flow half it was really foaming up on full blast!
Already did a 50% pwc the day after.
I will be doing a 75% pwc now to see if that helps and then probably another tomorrow after work, and maybe another after that if it doesn't stop.
This is the tank the Orange Eye Blue Tigers are supposed to go into. The fish are all active and not breathing heavy and eating fine. The lotion was a natural lotion, at this point not immediately toxic, since they are still alive. So hopefully not toxic.
I am just petrified it could have/or be killing the BB, anybody have any ideas, other than pwc's? What about the BB?
How can I tell if it is still alive?
Added the foamy water pic and cloudy water pic. It is slightly cloudy and has a brown tinge from the DW tannins I believe. Camera isn't very good sorry.