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I have a overstocked/overfiltered 10G with a AC30 filter. The filter is upgraded with a AC50 impeller and "hot-rodded". Its been running like this for a little over a year. The tank has always been super clean with crystal clear water. 2-2.5 months ago our son won a goldfish from a local fair that made its way into the tank. Shortly(2-3weeks) I started to notice that the water was slightly cloudy with a slight tanned color to it. Since then I have tried everything I could think of to fix this issue. I added more biomedia(Matrix) thinking it could be a bloom of something, replaced 1 of the 2 layers of bonded filter floss that was in the filter with a new piece. Larger WCs, normally I do 25-30%, so I started doing 40-50% WCs. This helped but for only about a day. Nothing seamed to help the cloudyness or the slight tanned color. Last week I thought I would try using carbon to remove the tanned color and I'm happy to say that it did infact fix that issue, but I still have cloudy water. I should state that its not now or ever was super cloudy, just not crystal like it used to be.
I know this is going to be asked so....
pH-7.51
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - WCs done when it gets to 40ish
Light - White LEDs that run 4-6hrs a day, sometimes if we fall asleep before turning it off it will stay on for as much as 12hrs, but this isn't often.
I was told in a FB Fish Keeping page, that the Goldfish is 100% the cause of my cloudiness. I know Goldfish are very dirty fish, but even if it was the cause of the cloudy water, would it really take 2-3 weeks to make it cloudy?
Yesterday I decided to take the Goldfish out the tank. Our 5.5yr old wasn't happy at all about this decision but I felt that it needed to happen. The good thing is our neighbor across the street has a inground plastic pond that currently has Goldfish in it, so I put it in there, so my son can walk across the street anytime and check on his Goldfish. After removing the Goldfish I did a 50% WC, today its was still cloudy.
Thoughts? Ideas?
Hopfully we won't have this 10G much longer. We recently sold our home before finding a new one, so we are currently living with my Mother-In-Law. I have a brand new 75G in storage that will be set up asap once we find a new house.
Heres a picture showing this cloudiness, this was before I added the carbon which is why it has a tanned color to it.
Wayne
I know this is going to be asked so....
pH-7.51
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - WCs done when it gets to 40ish
Light - White LEDs that run 4-6hrs a day, sometimes if we fall asleep before turning it off it will stay on for as much as 12hrs, but this isn't often.
I was told in a FB Fish Keeping page, that the Goldfish is 100% the cause of my cloudiness. I know Goldfish are very dirty fish, but even if it was the cause of the cloudy water, would it really take 2-3 weeks to make it cloudy?
Yesterday I decided to take the Goldfish out the tank. Our 5.5yr old wasn't happy at all about this decision but I felt that it needed to happen. The good thing is our neighbor across the street has a inground plastic pond that currently has Goldfish in it, so I put it in there, so my son can walk across the street anytime and check on his Goldfish. After removing the Goldfish I did a 50% WC, today its was still cloudy.
Thoughts? Ideas?
Hopfully we won't have this 10G much longer. We recently sold our home before finding a new one, so we are currently living with my Mother-In-Law. I have a brand new 75G in storage that will be set up asap once we find a new house.
Heres a picture showing this cloudiness, this was before I added the carbon which is why it has a tanned color to it.
Wayne
