Pre Fish Cloudiness

[Xavier10]

Having a problem with cloudiness in my 50gallon long tank. The tank has been running for about 3 days now. I have a marine land bio wheel power filter penguin 350. And 2 nice sized air stones. Fake plants and pebble type gravel. Just added a heater today. I washed the gravel before putting it In and put the water conditioner and bacteria liquid from top fin I bought at pet smart. I plan on doing a fish less cycle so I'm studying up on that and looking for the ammonia. Any help I would highly appreciate it.

My readings I took last night are Ph level 7
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0

 

[ShinySideUp]

Having a problem with cloudiness in my 50gallon long tank. The tank has been running for about 3 days now. I have a marine land bio wheel power filter penguin 350. And 2 nice sized air stones. Fake plants and pebble type gravel. Just added a heater today. I washed the gravel before putting it In and put the water conditioner and bacteria liquid from top fin I bought at pet smart. I plan on doing a fish less cycle so I'm studying up on that and looking for the ammonia. Any help I would highly appreciate it.

My readings I took last night are Ph level 7
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0

Ammonia you can buy in hardware shops, it is usually 9% ammonia so you'll have to work out dosage to get about 4ppm. The cloudiness is common, once you are up to temperature and have let things settle down the cloudiness will go but can take up to two weeks depending on substrate cleanliness, and the amount you fiddle with the decor [fiddle now, while it's cloudy as you can't make it any worse). Patience, patience, patience is the way to go.

 

[Xavier10]

Having a problem with cloudiness in my 50gallon long tank. The tank has been running for about 3 days now. I have a marine land bio wheel power filter penguin 350. And 2 nice sized air stones. Fake plants and pebble type gravel. Just added a heater today. I washed the gravel before putting it In and put the water conditioner and bacteria liquid from top fin I bought at pet smart. I plan on doing a fish less cycle so I'm studying up on that and looking for the ammonia. Any help I would highly appreciate it.

My readings I took last night are Ph level 7
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0

Ammonia you can buy in hardware shops, it is usually 9% ammonia so you'll have to work out dosage to get about 4ppm. The cloudiness is common, once you are up to temperature and have let things settle down the cloudiness will go but can take up to two weeks depending on substrate cleanliness, and the amount you fiddle with the decor [fiddle now, while it's cloudy as you can't make it any worse). Patience, patience, patience is the way to go.

Ah cool thanks. My tank normal temp is 80degrees should I raise it since I have no fish in it right now? The fish I want living range is 70-82 degrees. I read that the temp should be in the high 80's for fish less cycling.

 

[ShinySideUp]

At 80 degrees (27 celsius is they way I like to look at it) you are probably just wasting electricity. All my tanks are about 25 degrees C (about 77F), I cycled them at that temp and it was all fine. Some fish require higher temperatures but 80 degrees is at the top end of most fish requirements and doesn't need to be that high.

 

[Aquascaper]

There is a calculator for ammonia dosing under the calculator tab on the forum.

A higher temperature is recommended as the beneficial bacteria will colonised faster at higher temps.

Have a read through the pinned topic on fishless cycling for full details. This is the tried and tested method so ignore advice to save a miniscule amount of electricity in favour of faster growth rates