How To Get Crystal Clear Water In Aquarium?
#1
Posted 20 July 2016 - 05:12 PM
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Posted 20 July 2016 - 05:34 PM
#3
Posted 20 July 2016 - 05:55 PM
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.
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Posted 20 July 2016 - 06:13 PM
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Posted 20 July 2016 - 07:02 PM
Moving this post to Technical
#8
Posted 22 July 2016 - 03:59 PM
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.
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Posted 22 July 2016 - 09:05 PM
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
#10
Posted 22 July 2016 - 09:22 PM
Water should come good without adding anything.
Decent water changes and you will be in business.
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Posted 22 July 2016 - 09:56 PM
#12
Posted 24 July 2016 - 08:07 AM
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.
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Posted 24 July 2016 - 12:49 PM
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
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Posted 27 July 2016 - 07:39 AM
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.
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