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28-09-2015, 11:37 PM | #1 |
Dragon
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Water get choky
Recent 3-4 months notice that the water quite choky...wonder is it becos :
1) All fishes getting bigger? (comm tank consists of 3pcs of 15" XB, 2pcs of 10" Kel, 3pcs of 6" TFB, 1pc of 6" SB Oscar, 1pc of 6" IT, 1pc of 6" FF) or 2) Pump getting weaker? Piping cloak? 3) due to feeding of pallet to some of the fishes that have no chance eating MP? (as sometime notice their poo have un-digested food) |
30-09-2015, 04:14 PM | #2 |
Dragon
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What's your tank size? Hsve you measured your water perimeters recently? From what you describe, you have quite a bit of big size fishes. Your bioload might be too high...
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01-10-2015, 09:54 PM | #3 |
Dragon
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Sorry but what is water get choky? You mean the flow is slower? What kind of filtration are you using?
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01-10-2015, 11:20 PM | #4 |
Dragon
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Sorry, I mean milky...English not powderful
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01-10-2015, 11:28 PM | #5 |
Dragon
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01-10-2015, 11:56 PM | #6 |
Hi there !!! 123
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Ts, what's your wc regime like?
How about the filter materials? |
02-10-2015, 12:13 AM | #7 |
Arofanatic
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TS, I also encountered a problem very similar to yours recently.
When viewed at an angle, can clearly see my water being very smokey, like watching smoke slowly diffusing throughout the tank. The tank is a 2ft tank with built in cover, running on build in OHF. pump is roughly 8-10 times turnover, can say is over-filtration. For me I speculate that there can be 3 possibilities. 1) Haze - The smokey water only started recently during the haze period. But unlikely because my 2 other tanks are still crystal clear. One is sump system and the other is ohf, same as problem tank. 2) High bioload - Recently added a few big(relative to tank size) plecos to the tank. But ammonia and nitrite zero, only nitrate slightly higher, like 20-40ppm. so i doubt its insufficient bio filtration. 3) Lousy mech filtration - Cause of space constrain n a built in ohf, the sponge that is under the rain bar is half in contact wif the water in the tray, so maybe the shyt will decompose and leech back into the aquarium. But recently I've add-on a rlly fine sponge prefilter before the pump, but no difference. The smokey water also looks different from decompose poop, which normally looks brownish, but still 'clear' without being able to see 'smoke'. Rlly curious about wad is cause this 'smokescreen' in my aquarium |
02-10-2015, 05:17 PM | #8 |
Dragon
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My tank already running for a year plus.
Likely is fishes getting bigger. I feed pellets, and some of them not able to digest, this pollute the water. I'll test the water tonight. Meanwhile, will try to put in an additional pump into the sump to pump more water to the main tank so to create a better flow rate. If successful, might change the current Rio32F to Sicce. |
06-10-2015, 07:44 PM | #9 |
Dragon
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Hi bro.....whats ur filtration system?..Seems not enough medias etc to support growing livestocks...
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06-10-2015, 09:07 PM | #10 |
Arofanatic
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If your water parameters are good but the water still appears "hazy", there's nothing to worry about. The haze will go away within a week or two. Even for established filtration, the BB's don't live forever, some will die off while new colonies will establish over time. During this process, you will see hazy water.
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