Help - tiny white bits in the water

[corymad]

Help

I have a 260 litre aquarium with internal filter. PH 6.8, KH 4 GH6 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 10ppm. Well washed sand substrata.

The tank is well planted and has cycled for 4 weeks now. The water perameters appear stable (I'm adding fish from my 2 foot tank one or two a week now, to build up the good bacteria in the filter).

We've had a problem with green (slime) algea and took all the bogwood out of the tank this weekend to thoroughly clean it.

I now have tiny white specs in the water, which seem to attach themselves to the front glass. The Danios seem to eating the white specs. I've tried using a magnifying glass (hand held) to no avail - I can't see what the specs are.

Anyone got any ideas please?

Thanks for any replies.

Corymad

 

[LiQuOrIcE]

sounds like what my uncles had in his! maybe its severn trent water supply?

my uncle is in cheltenham, it filtered out in a few days, water changes made no difference!

the filter was so gunked up with this crap aswell, looked like results of a bad cold but white!

 

[buggyboutbettas]

ahhh UK water.... it's the best ain't it?

 

[aibo210]

Hi

ive had a simlar problem and my water severn trent in derby. firstly when i set up my tank i had it i also had bog wood so i compleatly re washed the bog wood by doing the following.

boiling hot water from a ketle soak for 30min
cold rinse.

repeated this 3 times.

then compleatly re-washed the whole tank.

Seemed to cut the white stuff 90% its the tannin that caused it under the UV light it seems to create this white mist.

carl

 

[corymad]

Thanks for your help.

Corymad

 

[Nina7777]

I add this problem in my tank and I don't live in the UK

i found out that it was an algae bloom. I scrubbed the glass and did a 50 % water change every other day. It eventually went away.