Deja Vu

[Clickfish13]

Hello all, may I say brilliant forums I have been searching for hours for the solution to y problem and alas I finally have in and took pictures prayed to the gods of tropical fish that someone, can help.

So a few weeks ago I get given a Tank. I bring it home I clean it with tank disinfectant. I let it dry fill
Her up place in te filter the heater and add the p.h 7 and the strezyme and the other one .. I will edit the name in I go to bed thinking I will get cloudy water in a few days it will be gone. I get up and I have more than cloudy water ! I find big thick vlunps of white cloud. So I nuke the tank as one forum suggested (not this one) bleached it all the disinfected and boiled everything then disinfected re filled added everything this time I waited on adding the ph 7.0 for a few days the tank looked fine water was clear the two other bottles added ... And boom it's back I am feeling like I am not destined to be a fish keeper.

 

[CezzaXV]

It's one of two things. Either you didn't clean your substrate enough before adding it to the tank, or it's a bacterial bloom. Either way, it will go away by itself in a few days.

Also, I would recommend against using products that alter your pH. Your water will always try to go back to its natural pH, and a stable pH is much better for fish than a correct one.

 

[Clickfish13]

It's one of two things. Either you didn't clean your substrate enough before adding it to the tank, or it's a bacterial bloom. Either way, it will go away by itself in a few days.

Also, I would recommend against using products that alter your pH. Your water will always try to go back to its natural pH, and a stable pH is much better for fish than a correct one.

Thank you, for your quick reply the advice is appreciated. here is a quick picture of what i woke up to. the thing that gets me most is that on the 2nd time of asking as soon as the ph changer hit the water it went cloudy.

anyhow here is the pic.

 

[This Old Spouse]

What on earth ... that looks like a bed of mould. Good that you got the photo posted, now can you get one that's in focus and post it?

What I would suggest to you is to start all over. Empty everything from the tank (I'm praying you don't have any fish in there) and scrub it down with hot water. Buy some new sand or gravel and rinse well before adding it to your tank. The only thing you should be adding to the water is dechlorinator, preferably StressCoat + or Seachem Prime.

Then you can start cycling the tank according to the instructions here.

Good luck, and welcome.

 

[Clickfish13]

I will do thank you

 

[Clickfish13]

What on earth ... that looks like a bed of mould. Good that you got the photo posted, now can you get one that's in focus and post it?

What I would suggest to you is to start all over. Empty everything from the tank (I'm praying you don't have any fish in there) and scrub it down with hot water. Buy some new sand or gravel and rinse well before adding it to your tank. The only thing you should be adding to the water is dechlorinator, preferably StressCoat + or Seachem Prime.

Then you can start cycling the tank according to the instructions here.

Good luck, and welcome.

Hello

oik here is a few shots ... this tank has gone mad since i posted that pic this morning , i think i am going to bin the filter off and also i will be also replacing the heater and i will now of course be getting a new air stone. also no fish this is a new aquarium

 

[This Old Spouse]

YIKES! What IS that stuff??? Can you get a close-up shot of it in focus??

 

[eaglesaquarium]

That is some strange stuff. I second the recommendations from above. Don't add a bunch of stuff to your water. You want to dechlorinate, but that's it!


StressZyme and other instant cycle products are a waste of money and will only end in heartache.

Adding ph adjusters is a waste of energy and will actually cause far more problems than they cure. In a crisis, you want to be able to complete a large water change to deal with the issue. SO... rather than trying to keep your water close to 7.0 pH or any other truly arbitrary water parameter, you want to keep your water as close to you tap conditions as possible (ESPECIALLY AS A BEGINNER!). Leave the complicated fish that require Reverse Osmosis water, or anything else different from your tap conditions for after you have years of experience...




YOWSER! Was this a new tank or a second hand job? Exactly what did you use to clean it?

 

[This Old Spouse]

+1

I'm still getting over that photo.

 

[This Old Spouse]

Just re-read the whole post, and here's what I'm thinking: it appears that the problems started when you added the pH adjuster (whatever that is). What I would do is empty out the tank, give it a good scrub, and do the same with the heater. You don't need an airstone if you have a filter that disturbs the surface of the water, which is the case with almost all filters. I do think this filter needs to go in the trash bin. I can't imagine you'd be able to get all that gunk off it completely.

When you get the tank and heater all cleaned up and get some new substrate and get that rinsed off and put in the tank, fill the tank with dechlorinated water. Don't use any other chemicals whatsoever. Then proceed with the fishless cycle.

 

[eaglesaquarium]

+1...

With fishkeeping, less is more. The less you need to add to your tank/water, the more success you will find. Use the time during the fishless cycle to read through the beginner's resource thread. There is a TON of helpful information. Some may seem obvious, but it isn't always obvious to everyone. Secondly, use that time to research fish that fit your tank and water parameters. Then figure out which ones you like from that collection. Then figure out which ones can be safely placed together in a community (if that's what you are looking for).

 

[Clickfish13]

Thank you all for the advice I will take some gunk out and i will take a photo of it .

I will post a pic later of the tank before I added the ph stuff.

It was 2nd hand but I bleeched and scrubbed and disinfected with aquarium cleaner. Anyway I will empty it and then start again ... And I will read the hell
Out of the guide... You chaps are legends !

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Well those threads were written long before TOS and I came along. (They are how I started to learn about fish keeping!)

 

[This Old Spouse]

+1!

Honestly, if it wasn't for this forum, I would have killed all my fish long ago and doubt I would even be in the fishkeeping hobby.

 

[dfield]

I had that on a little 16L acrylic tank I bought as a hospital tank, not quite as bad as yours but I had put a bacteria tablet in the tank to kick start the cycle (waste of time)..

The tank smelt "sweet" and if I touched the stuff it would dissintegrate to nothing when rubbed between my fingers.

The tank had 1 x small interpet heater, 1 x small bubble filter, gravel substrate and a plastic plant

I never managed to get the tank settled, or get rid of the white stuff (but never had as bad as yours), so now it is used as
a storage box!

I did wonder if the heater reacted with the acrylic.. or a combination of that and the bacteria tabs that caused it. ???

p.s your tank looks a similar size to the one I bought.. It was one of those all in one jobbies "everything you need for fishes" £20.. it really "wasnt".