murky water

all water out, but its not white murky, i seen this done before, where in
about 2-3 days the water will turn whitish in color, then return back to
clear a few days after that

no, this is almost like algey color, u cant even see the back of the fish
tank, the only fish you see is if they touch the front of the glass


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Alaskan Bush Pilot
"blove" wrote in message
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so you took all the water out and replaced it with new water? is the water
a
smokey white cloudy murky? if it is its just the nitrifying bacteria
establishin its base and it will last lik upto 6 weeks. regular tank
maintenence consits of partial water changes once a week. only take out
20 -
30 percent of the water and replace it all the while vaccuuming the
gravel
with a syphon. someone else will prolly give you links to explain better
the whole bacteria thing.

"AKPilot" wrote in message
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mom in law gave us a fish tank, plus about 7 fish, this was about 4
months
ago. the first few months, the water of course was very clean, so after
about 2-3 months, i decided to get the fish out, and clean out the
water,
bout a hose at walmart

anyway, ever since then, no matter what i do, after about 1-2 weeks
time,
the water turns murky. Last time i cleaned it, it took me an hour, i
made
sure i got all the **** from the bottom, cleaned the glass, everything!



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Alaskan Bush Pilot

it is algae, single celled stuff and it still indicates that your filter is not
handling the load after you change the water. the biofilter is being seriously
compromised.
there is biobugs on all components of the filter, clean those in untreated water and
they are partially to totally killed.
the glass in the tanks has a film of biobugs, scrape that down and lose biobugs.
gravel, same thing.
Usually, cloudy, algae water is a consequence of too many fish, too much or very
cheap food, too much wastes and not enough water, not enough filtration.
Ingrid

"AKPilot" wrote:

all water out, but its not white murky, i seen this done before, where in
about 2-3 days the water will turn whitish in color, then return back to
clear a few days after that

no, this is almost like algey color, u cant even see the back of the fish
tank, the only fish you see is if they touch the front of the glass



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thanks, the exact help i was looking for, yes i noticed the filter was quite
dirty even after putting a new one in.

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Alaskan Bush Pilot
wrote in message
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it is algae, single celled stuff and it still indicates that your filter
is not
handling the load after you change the water. the biofilter is being
seriously
compromised.
there is biobugs on all components of the filter, clean those in untreated
water and
they are partially to totally killed.
the glass in the tanks has a film of biobugs, scrape that down and lose
biobugs.
gravel, same thing.
Usually, cloudy, algae water is a consequence of too many fish, too much
or very
cheap food, too much wastes and not enough water, not enough filtration.
Ingrid

"AKPilot" wrote:

all water out, but its not white murky, i seen this done before, where in
about 2-3 days the water will turn whitish in color, then return back to
clear a few days after that

no, this is almost like algey color, u cant even see the back of the fish
tank, the only fish you see is if they touch the front of the glass



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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.