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yellow water is caused by the presence of humic/tannic acids typically.
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unless you pee'ed in your tank of course
hi fellow bros,my water is abit yellowish.besides the driftwood which might makes the water turns yellowish,wat other reasons is there?rotting plants?gravels?
yellow water is caused by the presence of humic/tannic acids typically.
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unless you pee'ed in your tank of course
Should be the driftwood.
Unless you added peat.
BC
humic/tannic acid?wat are these?where does it comes from?and of cos i din pee in it...haha..maybe the fish pee?[]
Those are organic acids that come from driftwood or peat or things like dried ketapang leaves.
BC
icic...so will plants that died makes the water turn yellow also?
It should not.
BC
how abt the gravels?will it by any means make water yellow also?
Over-feeding with food with yellow colouring.... My luohan tank turns yellow after I keep feeding it with dried prawns...
Medication that uses iodine or some other chemicals that turns yellow...
Driftwood that's not cured, releases yellow organic substance callned tanin...
Peat,humic acid , black water also turns water yellow...
ok...got a better idea liao.thanx everyone.
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On 7/18/2003 5:46:02 PM
It should not.
BC
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During initial setting up of my tank, quite abit of plants melted and some died. Having no chance to do water change or removal of the dead matters, the water quickly turned yellow and then brown. No driftwood was in my tank. Thus, it's high chance that the dead plants or leaves caused the water to become humic. Small ammounts of dead leaves may not be so, but with the amount of dead plants I had, you'll be surprise how "brown" the water can get.
yah...was suspecting abt the dead leaves and such....hmmm.....cos they lost their green colour and turns yellowish...so the colour go where?water lor.[:]
bluezing,
It depends how much dead leaves. If a few, it won't be so significant.
but wat do u all do with the dead plants? is it better to leave them in there to decompose or remove it?
i normally just take out those that float on top and leave the rest on the bottom. wat about dead fishes? I was thinking its better to leave them to decompose as fertilizer for plants.
yellow water usually comes from the tannins leached from driftwood.
peat and other brackish water will also be the cause.
no experience from dead leaves. and btw, its not ideal to leave dead fishes in the tank.
keep lots of shrimps in your tank... they will clear up all the dad fishes for you.. not even the bone is left
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