View Full Version : Brown Cloudy water!!! ..errrrr....
I went away for the weekend saturday afternoon and came home sunday night. What did I find?...well....brown cloudy water.
Nothing was done different then. I did add my usual ferts then, but this hasn't happened before. I measured some of the possible problems, and ammonia and nitrite was zero, nitrate was only a few ppm (added 10ppm on sat...my plants chew it up), and phosphate was the usual 0.5ish. ..nothing out of the ordinary.
I don't have any drift wood or peat.
I didn't disturb the gravel bed or anything.
Anyone have any ideas?
(btw, fresh carbon overnight didn't do anything)
OrionGirl
06-23-2003, 3:02 PM
What kind of filtration do you run normally? Any changes to the water source?
Hmmm...If you added any decorations lately, could be something is slowly dissolving. If carbon didn't make a difference, it's likely very small particles, something unlike tannins.
Any chance someone put something in the tank? The only times I've seen cloudy brown water is when a UGF was reversed, or when large amounts of solid wastes got pulled through an impeller(huge nastiness!). The ammonia and nitrites would take a while to show up in this case, though--I'd do some water changes, and test again tonight or tomorrow morning.
Running a crappy TopFin30 (soon to be replaced with a Filstar). The tank is going on 3 months old...and this hasn't happened before.
The water is the same. I have added nothing at all for quite some time. My oly "decoration" is gravel and a fake rock. The plants (lots) are all real.
I added some clarifier this morning...maybe when I get home from work it will have cleared up....if not, then a 50% water change and see what happens.
anonapersona
06-23-2003, 9:03 PM
any large snails missing?
only small pond snails.
did a 50-60% water change last night. needed more water changes, but didn't want to shiock the fish too much. this morning looked like last night.
no idea
have an XP2 on the way though. should get here this time next week...
OrionGirl
06-24-2003, 1:22 PM
As long as you don't disturb the bacteria beds, and match the new water for pH and temp (needs to be close, not exact), you cna do several large water changes without a problem. I'd done more than 100% changes in one day--emergency measures to be sure, but not something that's going to shock the fish.