Re: Bacteria bloom

[blove]

you dont want the bacteria to die, you need the bacteria and it needs food

"GiveMeABMW" > wrote in message
...
> Hi, I have a new tank I posted about the other day (see "Cycle or no
cycle")
> which last night began to look slightly cloudy (a white cloud). I can
still see
> through it. I plan to get an ammonia (as well as some others) test today
to see
> if that's risen because of it, but what else should I do? I assume I
shouldn't
> add fish until the water has cleared. Will the bacteria die away on their
own?

[Gunther]

In article >,
says...
> Hi, I have a new tank I posted about the other day (see "Cycle or no cycle")
> which last night began to look slightly cloudy (a white cloud). I can still see
> through it. I plan to get an ammonia (as well as some others) test today to see
> if that's risen because of it, but what else should I do? I assume I shouldn't
> add fish until the water has cleared. Will the bacteria die away on their own?
>

Sounds like a clear-cut case of "new tank syndrome" to me.
See http://faq.thekrib.com/begin-cycling.html
for all the gory details. You don't want the bacteria to "die"
rather you want it to find a home. Read that article!

Check out a product by Marineland called "Bio-Spira" not
available online, only at some LFSs.
Gunther

[GiveMeABMW]

OK..finally have some tank stats for y'all:

Ammonia: 1.0 (person at pet store found .5)
ph: 8.4 (7.8 in store)
Nitrate: 20
Nitrite: 0
Hardness: 300
Alkalinity: 300

(Any reason for the discrepancies? Which one should I go by?)

So, basically my water is crap right now. I've put in "ph decreaser," I plan to
change 25% of the water tomorrow, and add Amquel+. Any other suggestions? I
don't remember my water being so bad when I had a fish tank before. :(

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your pH is fine. leave it alone. that is nitrite that is 20 correct? just keep
changing water until that ammonia ad nitrites are barely detectable. Ingrid

(GiveMeABMW) wrote:

>OK..finally have some tank stats for y'all:
>
>Ammonia: 1.0 (person at pet store found .5)
>ph: 8.4 (7.8 in store)
>Nitrate: 20
>Nitrite: 0
>Hardness: 300
>Alkalinity: 300
>
>(Any reason for the discrepancies? Which one should I go by?)
>
>So, basically my water is crap right now. I've put in "ph decreaser," I plan to
>change 25% of the water tomorrow, and add Amquel+. Any other suggestions? I
>don't remember my water being so bad when I had a fish tank before. :(



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