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Whoa holy cloudy water batman
Anyone know what would cause my water to go extremely cloudy? I had a fish die, rainford goby...i took him out when i found him. Tested ammonia, test revealed a little, like .25 or so...the lowest i can read thats not 0. did 10 gallon water change (20 gallon tank) everything looked okay then abmmo 6 hours later water looked like water that had milk poured into it. Damn i can wait to get the bigger tank.
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you should check nitrites as well, might just be a passing bloom
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I would run some carbon for a few days.
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Are you using tap or RO water?
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Cloudy Water
Any chance that you triggered a precipitate snow storm?
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Okay. The facts so far 50% water change with tapwater. That's a pretty big water change. You probably have a bacteria bloom from the declored tapwater due to the fact that Edmonton's tapwater is treated chloramine. Chloramine is a compound consisting of ammonia and chlorine, with about 1 ppm ammonia.
We had a recent discussion on chloramine in Edmonton's tapwater here.... http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/sho...light=ammonium Instead of waiting for a bigger tank, you should invest in an RO or RO/Di unit, or else use RO or distilled water from the grocery store for water changes. |
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Also if there was a problem using tap water wouldn't it have shown up early, not after 4 months? |
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What do you mean, "not allowed" to install an RODI unit? Is this the landlord trying to say that?
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