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OK guys, please see if you have any ideas about this. Starting about a week
ago, my tank water is filled with particules when I wake up in the morning. It looks like you took a stick and ran it through the Florite and released all kinds of crap. I use a Magnum 350 Micron filter cartridge during the day and its back to normal. But the next morning, bam!, the same thing. I don't understand. Do you think either the Clown Loaches, Brochis Splendens, or Whiptail catfish could be doing this during the night? I see them rooting around during the day and stirring up a little stuff, but nothing to the extent of what I get in the morning. I have vacumed the Florite pretty good over 1/2 of my tank during the last water change, but I cannot vacum certain parts because of plant tickets or driftwood. Does anyone have Florite and any of these fish that may be causing something like this? My normal filter is an Ehiem 2028 Pro with 2 trays of ceramic tubes and one tray of the course rock substrate. My tank has never done this before. Do you think maybe I should alter the contents of the filter? Maybe replace the 2 sponge layers? I rinsed them out during the last water change about a week ago. It just seems like this stuff is not being sucked in by the filter or either it's too much for the filter to handle or either its passing through the filter somehow. Any ideas, please?!?!? thanks, jesse |
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Jesse, can you describe the particulates a little more? Are we talking
about decaying plant matter or bacteria? How recently was the tank planted? The reason I ask is because frequently (usually?) when I've planted out a new tank I planted some plants that didn't take well - I remember one tank in particular where I had six bunches of didipls diandra and six bunches of foxtail fril which, for reasons never determined (maybe snails?), over the course of two months just deteriorated and disintegrated. The overall effect was similar to what you are describing. Assuming that it's not snails which are causing the problem, they would probably be the most effective at cleaning it up. If it's bacterial, periodic use of the micron filter is probably interfering with getting the biologic filter established. Add two teaspoons per gallon of A.C.T., clench your teeth, and turn off the micron filter. Only use it when you have company coming. There are several liquid products available which supposedly cause small particulate to "clump" together and be more effectively filtered out (mechanically). The brand names escape me but your LFS can direct you, I'm sure. kush "You can't have everything - where would you put it?" SlimFlem wrote in message news:SoiR9.543957$WL3.146175@rwcrnsc54... OK guys, please see if you have any ideas about this. Starting about a week ago, my tank water is filled with particules when I wake up in the morning. It looks like you took a stick and ran it through the Florite and released all kinds of crap. I use a Magnum 350 Micron filter cartridge during the day and its back to normal. But the next morning, bam!, the same thing. I don't understand. Do you think either the Clown Loaches, Brochis Splendens, or Whiptail catfish could be doing this during the night? I see them rooting around during the day and stirring up a little stuff, but nothing to the extent of what I get in the morning. I have vacumed the Florite pretty good over 1/2 of my tank during the last water change, but I cannot vacum certain parts because of plant tickets or driftwood. Does anyone have Florite and any of these fish that may be causing something like this? My normal filter is an Ehiem 2028 Pro with 2 trays of ceramic tubes and one tray of the course rock substrate. My tank has never done this before. Do you think maybe I should alter the contents of the filter? Maybe replace the 2 sponge layers? I rinsed them out during the last water change about a week ago. It just seems like this stuff is not being sucked in by the filter or either it's too much for the filter to handle or either its passing through the filter somehow. Any ideas, please?!?!? thanks, jesse |
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Ok, more detail. The tank has been planted for about one year. The
particules look like very tiny, pinhead sized brown-ish things. There are some plant particules floating around, but not very many. It just looks like suspended brown-ish sand, but somewhat smaller than a sand particle. I can't really be more exact than that. When I did my last water change a week ago (about 50%), about 2 days before that, I performed maintenance on my Eheim. I removed a tray of the ceramic tubes and put in two bags of carbon for 3 days. Then I took the carbon out and put back in some new ceramic tubes as well as rinse the sponges out in some aquarium water in a bucket. My filter containers from the Eheim sat out about 15 minutes without being in water while I did everything. The other two trays contain the old ceramic tubes and coarse rock substrate. Also during this same 2 - 3 day time period, I removed 2 bunches of bunch plant from the tank. Do you think I messed up the biological bacteria and this is being caused from that? I do not have many snails to speak of anymore tanks to the 6 Clown Loaches. Should I just turn off the micron filter and let the tank run normally for several days and see what happens? Thanks, Jesse "kush" wrote in message ... Jesse, can you describe the particulates a little more? Are we talking about decaying plant matter or bacteria? How recently was the tank planted? The reason I ask is because frequently (usually?) when I've planted out a new tank I planted some plants that didn't take well - I remember one tank in particular where I had six bunches of didipls diandra and six bunches of foxtail fril which, for reasons never determined (maybe snails?), over the course of two months just deteriorated and disintegrated. The overall effect was similar to what you are describing. Assuming that it's not snails which are causing the problem, they would probably be the most effective at cleaning it up. If it's bacterial, periodic use of the micron filter is probably interfering with getting the biologic filter established. Add two teaspoons per gallon of A.C.T., clench your teeth, and turn off the micron filter. Only use it when you have company coming. There are several liquid products available which supposedly cause small particulate to "clump" together and be more effectively filtered out (mechanically). The brand names escape me but your LFS can direct you, I'm sure. kush "You can't have everything - where would you put it?" SlimFlem wrote in message news:SoiR9.543957$WL3.146175@rwcrnsc54... OK guys, please see if you have any ideas about this. Starting about a week ago, my tank water is filled with particules when I wake up in the morning. It looks like you took a stick and ran it through the Florite and released all kinds of crap. I use a Magnum 350 Micron filter cartridge during the day and its back to normal. But the next morning, bam!, the same thing. I don't understand. Do you think either the Clown Loaches, Brochis Splendens, or Whiptail catfish could be doing this during the night? I see them rooting around during the day and stirring up a little stuff, but nothing to the extent of what I get in the morning. I have vacumed the Florite pretty good over 1/2 of my tank during the last water change, but I cannot vacum certain parts because of plant tickets or driftwood. Does anyone have Florite and any of these fish that may be causing something like this? My normal filter is an Ehiem 2028 Pro with 2 trays of ceramic tubes and one tray of the course rock substrate. My tank has never done this before. Do you think maybe I should alter the contents of the filter? Maybe replace the 2 sponge layers? I rinsed them out during the last water change about a week ago. It just seems like this stuff is not being sucked in by the filter or either it's too much for the filter to handle or either its passing through the filter somehow. Any ideas, please?!?!? thanks, jesse |
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OK, that was the wrong answer, I really ought to pass on this one.
I wasn't thinking about your clowns slaughtering any snails you might add - you might consider adding a fleet of guppies? They're good at cleaning up suspended organic matter. The fact is, if you can actually SEE the individual particles, I would expect your conventional, mechanical filtration to clear it out. Have you tried filter floss? Other than that, I'm stumped. kush, disheartened SlimFlem wrote in message .net... Ok, more detail. The tank has been planted for about one year. The particules look like very tiny, pinhead sized brown-ish things. There are some plant particules floating around, but not very many. It just looks like suspended brown-ish sand, but somewhat smaller than a sand particle. I can't really be more exact than that. When I did my last water change a week ago (about 50%), about 2 days before that, I performed maintenance on my Eheim. I removed a tray of the ceramic tubes and put in two bags of carbon for 3 days. Then I took the carbon out and put back in some new ceramic tubes as well as rinse the sponges out in some aquarium water in a bucket. My filter containers from the Eheim sat out about 15 minutes without being in water while I did everything. The other two trays contain the old ceramic tubes and coarse rock substrate. Also during this same 2 - 3 day time period, I removed 2 bunches of bunch plant from the tank. Do you think I messed up the biological bacteria and this is being caused from that? I do not have many snails to speak of anymore tanks to the 6 Clown Loaches. Should I just turn off the micron filter and let the tank run normally for several days and see what happens? Thanks, Jesse "kush" wrote in message ... Jesse, can you describe the particulates a little more? Are we talking about decaying plant matter or bacteria? How recently was the tank planted? The reason I ask is because frequently (usually?) when I've planted out a new tank I planted some plants that didn't take well - I remember one tank in particular where I had six bunches of didipls diandra and six bunches of foxtail fril which, for reasons never determined (maybe snails?), over the course of two months just deteriorated and disintegrated. The overall effect was similar to what you are describing. Assuming that it's not snails which are causing the problem, they would probably be the most effective at cleaning it up. If it's bacterial, periodic use of the micron filter is probably interfering with getting the biologic filter established. Add two teaspoons per gallon of A.C.T., clench your teeth, and turn off the micron filter. Only use it when you have company coming. There are several liquid products available which supposedly cause small particulate to "clump" together and be more effectively filtered out (mechanically). The brand names escape me but your LFS can direct you, I'm sure. kush "You can't have everything - where would you put it?" SlimFlem wrote in message news:SoiR9.543957$WL3.146175@rwcrnsc54... OK guys, please see if you have any ideas about this. Starting about a week ago, my tank water is filled with particules when I wake up in the morning. It looks like you took a stick and ran it through the Florite and released all kinds of crap. I use a Magnum 350 Micron filter cartridge during the day and its back to normal. But the next morning, bam!, the same thing. I don't understand. Do you think either the Clown Loaches, Brochis Splendens, or Whiptail catfish could be doing this during the night? I see them rooting around during the day and stirring up a little stuff, but nothing to the extent of what I get in the morning. I have vacumed the Florite pretty good over 1/2 of my tank during the last water change, but I cannot vacum certain parts because of plant tickets or driftwood. Does anyone have Florite and any of these fish that may be causing something like this? My normal filter is an Ehiem 2028 Pro with 2 trays of ceramic tubes and one tray of the course rock substrate. My tank has never done this before. Do you think maybe I should alter the contents of the filter? Maybe replace the 2 sponge layers? I rinsed them out during the last water change about a week ago. It just seems like this stuff is not being sucked in by the filter or either it's too much for the filter to handle or either its passing through the filter somehow. Any ideas, please?!?!? thanks, jesse |
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What is filter floss and what is A.C.T.? Thanks
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