cloudy water

I had a cloud prob in a 90g tank for months. Used floculants and floss,
nothing worked. Had two filters running, Emperor 400, and Fluval 304.

I bought a HOT. In the first couple hours, the tank was cleaner than it ever
was, next day, polished like the first day I set it up. Ran it for another
two days, and removed from the tank, been crystal clear ever since. Whenever
I clean the tank, I pop the HOT for a while in to catch any free floating
debree, other than that, I either move it to another tank to polish, or it
sits in storage. Filters are fairly easy to clean with a regiment of soaking
in bleach, then in clean water for a day, rinsing and sun drying or
decloring with declor to get rid of the bleach.


"Scott" wrote in message
.. .
What type of polyester batting do you suggest? That might help me
identify
which stores would carry this product. I am having the same problem with
cloudy water...

Because there's no room in my filter, I was thinking about stuffing the
intake 'pipe' with some batting... Would this work?

Thanks


wrote in message
...
cloudy water (white, pearly, shifting) is the biobugs looking for a
home.
It can be
due to too many fish, too little water and too little biobug media, big
increases in
food, spawning, adding something that slimes the media, not washing the
filter
properly, like washing in untreated tap water (city), too vigorously,
not
enough, pH
drop, temp drop, salt or ?? too high, bad dechlor, insufficient minerals
or adding
chemicals that kill the biobugs like antibiotics.
Most people find stuffing their filter with some polyester batting
clears
things up
pretty fast. Dropping in a heater to steady the temp helps a lot.
Water changes and chemicals dumped into the water almost never "fixes"
the
problem
long term.
Ingrid


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