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[Ramjan]

I recently bought a huge filter cost me huge amount as well. It was Eheim 1200 and still my water is cloudy. Water is cirulating i wonder if i fitted properly? or something wrong with the water? fishes are healthy though... Please give me some idea (i am new member)

[Westie]

Purigen or macropore

[malawiman85]

Have you tested water?
How long has tank been set up?
How bigs the tank?
Whats in the tank?
Fish
Substrate
Plants
What do you feed?
How often and how much do you feed?

If you can answer these questions it will help us eliminate the problem and hopefully you wont need the purigen or macropore.

[malawiman85]

Oh and water changes... how much and how often?

[dicky7]

Moving this post to  Technical

[chocky]

the new ceramic media can make water a bit cloudy at the start

[tunagirll]

Crystal clear?

 

Apart from giving the tank a little time to settle - I'd use an extra filter with filter wool in it, and a bag of carbon and purigen.

[Ageofaquariums]

Chemi-pure for the win!

 

New filter though, so sounds like a text book water column bacterial bloom while the new sticky bacteria biofilms get established on the new filter media. Once the biofilms establish the ammonia conversion is much more efficient, and this will starve out the water column bloom.

[Ramjan]

Ok
1. It's African cichlids with Oscar
2. I feed once a day
3. Tank is 3.5 x 2x 2 ft
4. Substrate is white grainy sand from pool filter
5.feeding hikari cichlids pellet medium and nls small pellets
6. No plants
7. Water ph all good fish are thriving
I had doubt on the new media noodles in filter could it be? If so what do I do?? (Like choky said..)

And is there any chemical drops I can put in to clean??

What's purigen?

Thanks for all the support

[malawiman85]

http://www.seachem.com/purigen.php
Water should come good without adding anything.
Decent water changes and you will be in business.

[Westie]

Is the water cloudy after feeding your fish NLS?

[Ageofaquariums]

Chemi pure has the advantage of being a blended media, so has the benefits of ion exchange resins (like purigen/macropore) combined with activated carbon. At the cost of losing recharge, you gain a much more robust and varied chemical filtration effect.

[Ramjan]

I shall do that and let you guys know the out come !! 

cheers !

Is the water cloudy after feeding your fish NLS?

no idea mate i feed NLS ,hikari and oscar 50% protein stuff ...

Oh and water changes... how much and how often?

i change only once a month ...1/3 

[malawiman85]

Opinions will vary on this but I reckon water changes should be closer to 1/3 every week. I do 50% every week on my tanks.

[Ageofaquariums]

Changing to keep nitrates below 40ppm works for me. If I start to notice nitrate bounce back a few days after change, I will clean canisters and vaccum gravel.  Recording nitrate tests and water changes, lets you scientifically be as lazy as possible while still keeping your fishes well being as top priority. Low nitrates = low aggression, low algae, fast growth and more spawn'ins.

 

Nitrates arent the be all and end all of aquarium pollutants, but they do increase in general ratio to most the rest. So they are a convenient marker post.