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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Goldfish / February 2004persistent white cloudyness in a cycled tank
Have a 50 gal with a few goldfish - previously had an ?ich outbreak or something and used quick cure for 5 days- fed antibiotic food - and used spectrogram antibiiotic in the water - but only 1 or 2 doses Anyway - the previous fish died and now have new fish. Tank is cycled as indicated by outbreak of brown algae ( also added biospira) Problem is persistent white cloudyness with outbreak of brown algae on floor (barebottom)and on glass sides. Daily water changes( 30 -40 %) help only a little Have 3 filters running - so excellent filtration. Have cleaned sponges. Questions: - is this due to the prior chemicals? Is the aeration ( bubblewand and small powerhead) affected and contaminating the water? Do I need to run a diatom filter? Do I need to take fish out and drain clean and fill the entire tank? many thanks Ira > Problem is persistent white cloudyness with outbreak of brown algae on floor > (barebottom)and on glass sides. Daily water changes( 30 -40 %) help only a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Do I need to run a diatom filter? > Do I need to take fish out and drain clean and fill the entire tank? Boy you get around... My Goldie tank is overfiltered and gets cloudy very often as well. I couldn't figure it out until I ran a diatom filter on it for a few hours- the "muck" was bright green when I cleaned the filter! All I have is a bloom of algae in my water column- unattractive but not a problem. It appeared white visually while in suspension but was most definitely green- smelled just like wheatgrass juice! I've cut back a tad on feeding to eliminate excess nutrients, and cut back on lighting a bit also. The problem (in my case anyway) is a barebottom tank that I keep way too spotless- I believe that if I could tolerate leaving one pane of glass algae covered it would help tremendously. I do have a few plants in there but all are very slow growing and so do not help much with the algae. Just my experience... Toni http://www.cearbhaill.com/goldfish.htm > > Problem is persistent white cloudyness with outbreak of brown algae on > floor [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > in suspension but was most definitely green- smelled just like > wheatgrass juice! Yep, that concurs with my recent experience. Despite doing partial water changes every couple of days, within 24 hours the water looked like milk and I could hardly see the fish. Water removed was green, and lots of green crud in the filter. > I've cut back a tad on feeding to eliminate excess nutrients, > and cut back on lighting a bit also. Lighting seems to be the cause for me. The tank was set up at the arse end of last year, when there wasn't much light about in the UK, and the algae bloom coincided (I worked out eventually) with the days starting to get longer again. Once the penny dropped, I switched the tank lights off for a few days, did a partial water change (about 30% was all it took for me), and plugged the lights back into their timer with reduced "on" time. It's been fine since.  SignatureJanie http://www.janie-thomson.co.uk http://www.tomomusic.com persistent cloudiness is almost always biobugs looking for a home. you need more biofilter media in the filters you got or you are too rough cleaning the sponges (what kind of filters?) quit with the daily water changes. instead make sure you got good hardness and bring temp up to 75oF. what is the powwerhead for? leave the brown algae alone. keep the aeration going but I would turn off the powerhead. it moves the water in the wrong direction. keep an eye on the pH and nitrates. Ingrid >Have a 50 gal with a few goldfish - previously had an ?ich outbreak or >something and used quick cure for 5 days- fed antibiotic food - and used [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >many thanks >Ira ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List Manager: Puregold Goldfish List http://puregold.aquaria.net/ www.drsolo.com Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other compensation for all the damn work I do, nor for any of the endorsements or recommendations I make. |
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