Need aid next to my fish container?
So yeah, I've got this fish tank that is only just awful. The water is extremely murky and kinda green lookin, and I don't know why. I have four fish contained by a little 10 gallon tank, which could be part of the problem, but I hold two filters in there. Hopefully that help a little. Anyways, the water used to clear and pretty, but now it's not. Any suggestions? Ideas? Help!
its dirty and it probably has algae contained by it. if there is algae the water become green-ish. its its dirty it turns gray-ish
i think that you should first carry a new tank and take the filter out and just clean the take by mitt ever week thats what i do and the tank is always clean and the wet is clear.or if you don't really want to clean that big of a tank every week consequently get two tanks and put two fish in respectively and clean the smaller tanks every week...
does that help??!
Answers: You've get too much algae (a little actually shows the tank is healthy but too much algae cause problems besides being not nice to look at) and probably also getting saturated with fish idle away.
No need for 2 filters and seems your filter aren't too efficient. Just choose one filter that seems best, it should be able to filter at tiniest 3-4 times your tank volume per hour. Your filter could be clogged, clean it out, check the impeller & squeeze out the filter wool or rinse filter material contained by old tank water. The more poopy your fish (eg. goldfish) the better your filter requests to be. Or just get a new filter approaching a good hang-on filter or internal power filter & transfer over the existing filter material (which already contains favourable bacteria).
Too much algae is usually due to too much light and excess uneaten fish food. Don't site your tank in close proximity any windows, restrict tank lighting to 8-10 hours a day. In unpromising cases, you may need to switch off the lighting for at least a few days. Feed fish a small pinch individual once a day, they can survive easily without food for a week.
You inevitability to keep up regular water changes & container maintenance, fish keeping is responsible work. Scrub algae off tank walls next to one of those magnetic scrubbers, clean algae off rocks and use your fingers to rub algae sour plant leaves. If you want to try some chemical help, ensure you have no fish or other creatures that are sensitive to such medication eg. crustaceans, corydoras, rummy-nosed tetras etc. One good product I've tried contained by a community tank is Algone, though a bit expensive.
If you don't have live plants, try having some simple ones similar to various mosses, Java fern or dwarf anubias. Plants help to compete with algae for nutrients. If your plants flourish, algae will start to die down.
Having a few algae ingestion creatures also helps. Some are not recommended: snails can multiply out of hand, Chinese algae eaters become aggressive, plecos grow too big & poop too much. The best ones are otocinclus midget sucker catfish, Siamese algae eaters, Yamato or Amano shrimp & Borneo suckers. For your cistern size, 2 otos & 2 Amano shrimps is enough. Note there are many different types of algae and no 2 creatures guzzle all types.
Many novices mistakenly think smaller tank are easier to maintain. Actually the larger the tank, the more stable the hose chemistry and hence less maintenance & lower risk of fish fatalities.
Edit: Brown water should be mostly due to excessive fish poop & other putrid stuff. Goldfish & sucker fish (presume a pleco) are champion poopers. Goldfish are also bottom scavengers at times and the pleco can also disturb the gravel. Presume you're not using a soil-based substrate that can be easily stirred up.
Depending on how dirty your cistern gets, tank cleaning is anything from weekly to at least monthly. First is to remove any uneaten food and whether you've live plants any dead leaves. Use a gravel vacuum to gently vacuum the top layer of substrate to remove poop & stuff that the filter did not achieve. Then use an algae scraper or magnetic glass cleaner to scrub off most algae on the inner cup (leave some at the side walls for your pleco). With the algae cleaned off, you can now do a water progress and remove most of the algae floating in the water.
You have algae, The tank doesn't obligation two filters. Are you giving the tank too much light, that will result in the algae. Are you feeding the fish too much food? What type of fish do you have and how big do they get? You have need of to find these things out. good luck
you could try getting a feeder fish.
or snails, but examine out because snails reproduce nonstop!
sometimes the rocks in your tank hold alge.
i verbs my 50 gallon tank by putting my fish in a LARGE bowl or a pitcher and empty it and draw from everything out.
it helps alllllllott.
do you clean the tank? Do you change the hose, vacuum gravel and clean the glass of algae?
what type of fish do you have? When was the second time you did a water change? When was the end time you cleaned the filters? Is it in front of a window? Does it achieve direct sunlight? More information is needed please.
probably algae i would say get a algae eater and if they are big fish catch a bigger tank
