vexxiang
Aquarium Advice Freak
55 gal, freshwater, play sand substrate, 10 inches of fish stocked currently, 1 musk turtle, canister filter, 1 plant.
I've been struggling to restart a tank from the ground up. Long story short, while on a very brief away trip my "house sitter" decided to feed my fish because "they were starving to death" and dumped an entire canister of dried shrimp and flakes into the tank. Needless to say when I returned home the room smelled like a rotten fish market and the tank was destroyed and all but a few fish were dead. I had to empty out the tank, save what fish I could, and scrub it all down and start from scratch.
New substrate, filter media, etc. I've never had so much trouble getting a tank started. Substrate was washed. As soon as I filled the tank with a slow running hose, it was cloudy. Did several water changes. Filled it up, let it cycle, it's been hazy-cloudy ever since. Continued to let it cycle, put in some quick start, did some water changes. A month and a half later, it finally started to clear up. It was great for a couple of weeks.
Now I wake up and it looks like this! It went from clear to a brown mud overnight. I'm at a loss.
I've been struggling to restart a tank from the ground up. Long story short, while on a very brief away trip my "house sitter" decided to feed my fish because "they were starving to death" and dumped an entire canister of dried shrimp and flakes into the tank. Needless to say when I returned home the room smelled like a rotten fish market and the tank was destroyed and all but a few fish were dead. I had to empty out the tank, save what fish I could, and scrub it all down and start from scratch.
New substrate, filter media, etc. I've never had so much trouble getting a tank started. Substrate was washed. As soon as I filled the tank with a slow running hose, it was cloudy. Did several water changes. Filled it up, let it cycle, it's been hazy-cloudy ever since. Continued to let it cycle, put in some quick start, did some water changes. A month and a half later, it finally started to clear up. It was great for a couple of weeks.
Now I wake up and it looks like this! It went from clear to a brown mud overnight. I'm at a loss.