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Guest
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| | Subject: cloudy water during cycle for freshwater 2/13/2010, 8:45 pm | |
| how long does it take for cloudy water to disappear? i just filled the tank today and started the cycle. ammonia is allready climbing. i just hate cloudy water
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Rachael0805
Captain
Posts: 1021
Location: Sacramento
Favorite Fish:: Red Devil, Red Terror, Green Terror...
| | Subject: Re: cloudy water during cycle for freshwater 2/13/2010, 8:57 pm | |
| What substrate are you using and what kind of filter? |
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Guest
Guest
| | Subject: Re: cloudy water during cycle for freshwater 2/13/2010, 9:03 pm | |
| crushed coral that i rinsed out for HOURS! and a penn plax cascade 1000 canister filter, i also used seachem stability also |
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Rachael0805
Captain
Posts: 1021
Location: Sacramento
Favorite Fish:: Red Devil, Red Terror, Green Terror...
| | Subject: Re: cloudy water during cycle for freshwater 2/13/2010, 9:05 pm | |
| Give it a day or two to settle or be filtered. If you dont see ANY improvement when you wake up tomorrow then you have a problem. |
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Guest
Guest
| | Subject: Re: cloudy water during cycle for freshwater 2/13/2010, 9:07 pm | |
| ok, the water was clear when i filled it, it slowly started to get cloudy as the day went on |
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ssteelhead
Staff Sergeant
Posts: 171
Favorite Fish:: oscar
| | Subject: Re: cloudy water during cycle for freshwater 2/13/2010, 9:09 pm | |
| lol that would be a bacteria bloom most likely |
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Guest
Guest
| | Subject: Re: cloudy water during cycle for freshwater 2/13/2010, 9:11 pm | |
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Rachael0805
Captain
Posts: 1021
Location: Sacramento
Favorite Fish:: Red Devil, Red Terror, Green Terror...
| | Subject: Re: cloudy water during cycle for freshwater 2/13/2010, 9:13 pm | |
| Is your filter hooked up right? Not filtering the particles back in is it? Filter clean? |
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Guest
Guest
| | Subject: Re: cloudy water during cycle for freshwater 2/13/2010, 9:15 pm | |
| filters clean, theres hardyly any particles in the water... its just cloudy |
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CajunGator
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Posts: 5834
Location: New Iberia, Louisiana
Favorite Fish:: Cichlids, WC Syn Petricola, Shellies, Festae, Mbu Puffers, Koi Angels, ABN, Piranha, Mermaids
| | Subject: Re: cloudy water during cycle for freshwater 2/13/2010, 9:21 pm | |
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Guest
Guest
| | Subject: Re: cloudy water during cycle for freshwater 2/13/2010, 9:22 pm | |
| ok ill post some pics later on tonight. |
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philuponthepho
Captain
Posts: 1059
Location: Arlington
Favorite Fish:: Anything I can afford (which is $0)
| | Subject: Re: cloudy water during cycle for freshwater 2/13/2010, 10:38 pm | |
| Took me 20 days to get super clear for a emperor 400 on a 55g.
Took me 3 days to get super clear for 2 sponge filters ea rated up to 80gallons so triple the filtration LOL. I also used instant cycle substrate which helped it QUICK.
And my 10 gallon took about 4 days to get clear but with an already established filter. Also! my 20 gallon never turned cloudy because of 4x the filtration. |
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