Few Newbie Questions Part 1

Hi All,

Finally got some time yesterday to set my new tank up and I have a few questions !

Part 1

The water seems a little cloudy and I was wondering if this is down only setting it up yesterday or something I've done wrong? I also have what looks like layers of something dusty on the inside of the glass ( I washed the gravel out until the water was running through it clean and soaked the bog-wood for a week changing the water daily and gave the stones a good clean with boiling water etc). I've posted a couple of pics (please excuse the background as it has developed some air pockets since adding water so it will be re-done shortly!).

Give it a few days and the water should clear once the tank settles.

Thanks for the advice Livewire.

Yeah, as said above its probably either a bacterial bloom, OR its just the dust that gets trapped between gravel being cleaned, letting off residue.

I wouldn't worry, what i find aswel though, if is you have a filter that has carbon in, replace the carbon with filter wool as filterwool is finer and will get the small bits that wouldn't be picked up in carbon.

Thanks JL

And a little tip to keep the picture backing on is to use something like this;

Sea View

It keeps the backing from coming away from the glass and makes the picture a lot clearer, I use it on my picture backing.
The picture will still come away from the glass now and again but a quick run over with a flat object (piece of card or cash card works for me) and its back looking good again.

People have said that Vaseline works as well but I am yet to try it

The background is currently fixed with vaseline as I had some at home and thought I would safe a fiver as I's seen the Sea View product, but I may go and buy some this week. I bought the backing from a LFS, it was a double sided type but when I put it on the other side was visible so I put some black card on the back to stop it showing through. The problem is now I have to pull the black card all off to try and force the air out of the background!!!

I should have bought a single sided background and some sea view and saved some time (and money as I now I've got to but anther background!!!!).