FishQueen55

I was going to treat my tank with Water Clear by Jungle because it was very cloudy. I have a Magnum 350 and Penguin Bio wheel 350 running in a 55 gallon tank. I have a canister filter (Magnum350) with carbon media and the Penguin 350 has 4 cartridge filters that have the carbon inside it. The medicine says to remove the carbon from filter, does that mean I just take all my filters out and let the water run without anything or what? I know I'm probably making this more complicated than it is but I just don't want to kill my fish.

Dozey

No... you just want to remove the carbon. On the bio-wheel this will require that you make a small slit in the cartridge's material to drain the carbon.

Medicating your tank because of cloudy water might be an extreme measure. Have you eliminated common causes and easily rectified reasons that the water is cloudy?

jdhef

FishQueen, I see in your aquarium info that you do not know about the nitrogen cycle. There is a good chance that you are experiancing a bacteria bloom (which would be good). I would like to suggest that you read up on the Nitrogen Cycle since it is very important. Here is an explaination: http://www.fishlore.com/Articles/TheNitrogenCycle.htm

So I would hold off on adding chemicals. In a properly maintained tank, the only chemical you should need it a water conditioner to remove chlorine and heavy metals from your tap water.