Hey all,
Not sure where a good forum is to ask this, so just thought I would post on BAR. I'm pretty sure there's enough of you guys who keep and know freshwater here too?
The tank has this constant cloudy fog. I can see it rolling through the tank and it gets so bad sometimes I can't see into the tank more than an inch.
Tank specs:
Then I added brand new plants from Albany Aquarium. They look pretty good. A few days later the whole tank got cloudy again.
I removed all the plants, even most of the duckweed for 24 hours. Still cloudy this time. So it wasn't the plants.
I've used the same ceramic rings for probably 5 - 6 months now. I always rinse them out in RO water or water changed water (never tap).
The last thing I did today was: probably a 80% water change (RO water), removed the ceramic rings (added new ones in) and swapped out the carbon. I squeezed out and rinsed the big sponge in the canister filter in RO/DI water (had some just made for cycling my salty tank). Tank is A LOT clearer now, but it's still kind of foggy, and I bet by tomorrow it'll be totally fogged up again.
What else could it be?! I guess I can turn off the canister filter completely, remove all the plants, and see what happens for a day. The betta and plants should live for 24 hours with any of that anyway right?
Quick video:
Not sure where a good forum is to ask this, so just thought I would post on BAR. I'm pretty sure there's enough of you guys who keep and know freshwater here too?
The tank has this constant cloudy fog. I can see it rolling through the tank and it gets so bad sometimes I can't see into the tank more than an inch.
Tank specs:
- 2.5 Gallon
- ZooMed 10 canister filter with a sponge filter, activated carbon and a couple ceramic rings (ball valve reduces flow quite a bit)
- Betta fish
- Petite anubis
- Regular anubis (it has like marbley leaves)
- Bare bottom
- Simple LED light that isn't really meant for growing much anything, just looks nice
- Duckweed
- A red nerite snail and 2 tiny hitchhiker snails from my plants, too small to see what they are
Then I added brand new plants from Albany Aquarium. They look pretty good. A few days later the whole tank got cloudy again.
I removed all the plants, even most of the duckweed for 24 hours. Still cloudy this time. So it wasn't the plants.
I've used the same ceramic rings for probably 5 - 6 months now. I always rinse them out in RO water or water changed water (never tap).
The last thing I did today was: probably a 80% water change (RO water), removed the ceramic rings (added new ones in) and swapped out the carbon. I squeezed out and rinsed the big sponge in the canister filter in RO/DI water (had some just made for cycling my salty tank). Tank is A LOT clearer now, but it's still kind of foggy, and I bet by tomorrow it'll be totally fogged up again.
What else could it be?! I guess I can turn off the canister filter completely, remove all the plants, and see what happens for a day. The betta and plants should live for 24 hours with any of that anyway right?
Quick video: