Ok, then guess better go get a bottled of BB to cycle my tank, cos it like even after water change the water always look cloudy after a day or two. Guess must be my canister is not mature yet. So any ideal which brand BB is good ?
I have just brought a BB solution from Petmart, do a nearly 100% water change , clean up my canister today 4.10.2008, add the BB solution for the tank to do a full cycle , wait for few days and see will it make any difference for the cloudy water for the past few weeks.
Usually it take how long for the tank to be cycle after I added in the BB solution? Petmart told me is around 2 days and ask to added in 60ml for a 4ft tank, is it enough?
2 days seem to be quite fast. even for a filter with media from a healthy tank. More like a week maybe? Various BB solutions have various concentrations of BB, some come in powder and some come in liquid form. Check the bottle to see the recommended level of solution you should add per day.
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it took me almost a week after I added in the BB solution from Sera. Patience is the key here.
IMHO, I'm not too convince of bottled bb. The duration I spent on using a bottled bb to 'accelerate' the process and not using them are almost the same.... at least to the naked eye, i.e. no cloudiness & no adverse reaction from the residence of the tank.
Well so after I added in the BB solution, can i still do water change? cos my discus if too cloudy and water too dirty, scare it will kill my discus.
how bad is the cloudy tank now? can show some pictures?
The tank is very bad but I had do 50% water change again last night. So no pictures here now, will try to take one if my water turn cloudy again..
I guess and suspect my water is not treated yet..sighz..but if no water change, it look so cloudy and it will make my discus feel so stress. I believed and suspect it the canister filter not cycle yet, last time when I use internal filter for my 2ft, it look alright and water is clear although my fish do poo often. Maybe of the overload of the bio too. Now iam having 10 discus, 10 tiger blak, 4 tatra...
Oh! That's quite a huge community in a 4 footer...
ya, that why suspect it is over load or the filter not fully cycle yet. So what shall I do? any advice?
Mine 4ft is a 48 x 18 x 25 inch
Hrmm hmmm sticky situation i see... no wonder you keep doing water change. Since as you said from the other thread that you dont have a holding tank for your fishes.
Do you use anti-chlorine?
You can either Risk the cloudy water and be patient so as to allow the BB to establish itself.
or
is it possible to cycle your filter in another smaller tank? or maybe even a large pail? then you do manual water change for your 4ft during the time that the BB is establishing itself? Then once it has been running for about 2 weeks you put it back into your main tank (Dechlorinated water already in the main tank). So then you will have an established filter instead of a 'new' one.
if you have more time on your hands maybe you can add plants to help the breaking down of waste?
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Last edited by freddiewee; 7th Oct 2008 at 22:03.
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In order to cycle my tanks faster, I plug in my new canister to run parallel with another in my established tank, after a few days I will then plug it back into the new tank to further populate the BB...
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Well add plants to help the breaking down of waste? hmmm sound good but which and what type of plant to be add? iam new in plants, and that whY i have put in other threat that how to add plants or add sand/stone in bare tank with fishes already in. sighz....thank in advance.
Quite a headache position you're in bro...
Any plant would help in absorbing the waste. Well, since there are fauna in your tank and there aren't any substrate... you may consider putting floating plants instead. It does the job too.
hi people, since this thread talks about cloudy water and bacteria boom.. I was wondering if it was possible to have a bacteria boom in a tank containing just water and Gex soil.. No plants and organisms yet..
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