sweetsuvvyb
Aquarium Advice Freak
Hey guys...
Some of you may remember, I set up a 10gallon for my 2 goldfish in June. The tank cycled fairly easily, but with the addition of a "gift" pleco, and with my goldfish growing like weeds, my tank is walking the line of being overstocked. To compensate, I clean, clean clean...which threw off the cycle (I try to do a 10-15% change with vac 3x a week...checking levels and the filter at the same time).
My levels have been pretty consistent for several weeks with ammonia at zero, usually a small amount of Nitrites (although sometimes none)...haven't seen more than 0.2ppm since the 1st cycle. I need to replace my nitrate test...but I hadn't seen anything more than 20.
The past week or so, however, the tank has gotten very cloudy. Kind of a white particulated cloudy. Nothing's really changed, and I haven't really acted on it...figured it would sort itself out...but this morning it had gotten worse! Any ideas on what this might be? The filter looks fine, the levels are fine (ammo and ites tested at 0 today), and most importantly the FISH are fine...but this cloudy stuff sure isn't pretty!
any thoughts? bacterial, mineral...is the water just plain dirty?
Thanks so much
Some of you may remember, I set up a 10gallon for my 2 goldfish in June. The tank cycled fairly easily, but with the addition of a "gift" pleco, and with my goldfish growing like weeds, my tank is walking the line of being overstocked. To compensate, I clean, clean clean...which threw off the cycle (I try to do a 10-15% change with vac 3x a week...checking levels and the filter at the same time).
My levels have been pretty consistent for several weeks with ammonia at zero, usually a small amount of Nitrites (although sometimes none)...haven't seen more than 0.2ppm since the 1st cycle. I need to replace my nitrate test...but I hadn't seen anything more than 20.
The past week or so, however, the tank has gotten very cloudy. Kind of a white particulated cloudy. Nothing's really changed, and I haven't really acted on it...figured it would sort itself out...but this morning it had gotten worse! Any ideas on what this might be? The filter looks fine, the levels are fine (ammo and ites tested at 0 today), and most importantly the FISH are fine...but this cloudy stuff sure isn't pretty!
any thoughts? bacterial, mineral...is the water just plain dirty?
Thanks so much