Cucumber Question?

[Vin]

Now my tank has been very clear as those of you who have followed my set up over the last wee bit.

I put a good sized piece of cucumber in the tank last night for my pleco and this morning my tank is cloudy.

So my question is:

Can this be caused by having the cucumber in the tank?

Vin

 

[darknirvana217]

More than likely a single slice of cucumber would not have caused your water to cloud up that quickly over night. How deterioated was the cucmber the next morning, and how long has the sank been set up.

 

[Vin]

It has been well eaten.

Tank has been going through cycle for last 2 1/2 weeks.

Water stats are all progressing how they should so that is why I am thinking it was the cucumber.

 

[darknirvana217]

Your tank may just be having some spells of cloudiness. I had a 28 gallon that did this for a while. Its possible that the cucumber did it, but I think its probably just the tank. As long as your stats are down, especially the ammonia, since beneficial bacteria should be breaking this down, you should be fine. Try it again and see if happens with the cucmber again.

 

[Ian H]

i had cucumber in my tank for 24 hours the other day, well eaten and it caused a nitrIte spike!

this is in a tank thats been fully cycled for ages (well the filter has) so in a new tank i would imagine it would be worse!

 

[billy0510]

if its more of a green cloudiness could be an algae bloom this is totally fine. Sounds like if you only 2 or so weeks into cycling probable a bacterial bloom. This just happens when urbacteria is(what u want ) developing. Whats r perameters