Reply With QuoteOriginally Posted by theludicrous
Give it some more time....Be patience....!! :P
hello, i have a problem that after i placed a bag of activated carbon in the OHF, my water became cloudy, even after water change.
someone help!
Give it some more time....Be patience....!! :P
is there a possibility that the carbon expired?
what i did was i rinsed it before putting it into my OHF, and when i did, the water slowly became cloudy.
i did a 50% water change but there was a bit of the fishy smell.
not very sure carbon will expired or not ...
just wait and see for few day & see got any changes bo lor ....
haha if no, then remove that "thing" OUT!!
this may be bacterial bloom. Try to do more water changes and see what happens. Alternatively, you could just leave the tank for even longer.
water should have cleared out already by now.. next time just rinse it really well before putting in the OHF.
i swapped it to a hanging filter, with the original sponge (together with carbon/charcoal?), bag of the "screwed" activated carbon and my old ceramic tablet-like thing. water seems clearer now. i think it's a bit of trial and error, fish are fine by the way.
You're a lifesaver!
my tank was clear at first but out of the blue it's turn cloudy....
i cut down my feeding n lighting period to 4-6 hours, still cloudy...
then i just wait....and wait....weeks passed....
then yesterday the water turned clear again....
funny hor...
it's weird, my water has the greenish tinge now. i think the carbon has expired or something. i used like 1/5 of it in my filter, rinsed and left the leftover to dry. it kind of keep leaving traces of black-ish powder around. is it supposed to be that way?
You could be experiencing an algae bloom from too much phosphate in the water, resulting in the greenish tinge. Adding carbon tends to result in phosphate leaching from the carbon material. Why don't you remove all recently added chemical-related materials (like the carbon) from the tank and see if the water stablises?
okay, will do. but may i know what can i do to prevent the water from stinking up? i'm very afraid it'll stink up my bedroom.
i have one question, are those activated carbon pill-like things supposed to dissolve? or it'll still be what i see?
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