Devorax
Fish Crazy
Hi people. I have the tank in my siggie and there has been a serious problem with the water of late. It has been running for 2-3 months, but I brought over the matured Eheim 2224. We have had many weeks of perfect water test results, and about a fortnight ago we had a major spike of ammonia, that would read over 1ppm/L 24 hours after an 80% water change. Then it just disappeared as quickly as it started, and now we have the most foggiest water imaginable.
If we look from one end of the tank to the other, we cannot see the other end. The fish/plants just appear as vague shadows. We know this is not a good situation, but nothing seems to be responsible. We have switched the filters off, only for it to cloud, so they went on again, we took out an ornament that was discolouring, and it's still clouding.
Could it be the sand substrate? Is there something that could cause it, like anaerobic bacteria? We did boil the bogwood to oblivion around the same time that this all started, hoping to rid it of tannins (about 7 hours total boil time) only to find out that you can't. Could it be the result of over-killing the bogwood? I'm close to quitting on this big tank now, it's been nothing but hassle since we had it, I was better off with the 2 smaller tanks I had.
Any help, much appreciated.
If we look from one end of the tank to the other, we cannot see the other end. The fish/plants just appear as vague shadows. We know this is not a good situation, but nothing seems to be responsible. We have switched the filters off, only for it to cloud, so they went on again, we took out an ornament that was discolouring, and it's still clouding.
Could it be the sand substrate? Is there something that could cause it, like anaerobic bacteria? We did boil the bogwood to oblivion around the same time that this all started, hoping to rid it of tannins (about 7 hours total boil time) only to find out that you can't. Could it be the result of over-killing the bogwood? I'm close to quitting on this big tank now, it's been nothing but hassle since we had it, I was better off with the 2 smaller tanks I had.
Any help, much appreciated.