Tiger Tiger
Fish Crazy
I recently picked up a tank for sale with just about everything with it, filters, heaters, food, treatments etc.
The decor was all Brown Lava rock. It is light brown with every rock with a hole through it.
There must have been 2o large rock in a 4ft aquarium with medium sized fish.
He had so many filters in it he said he only needed to water change once every 3 months. The water was clear.
We went to catch the fish, at this point I would like to add the substrate is black/blue/yellow gravel and was around 2 inches deep, Well we started and the first swoop produced so much crap from the substrate I could not believe it. After 3 attempts I could not see a thing.
I have never ever seen water like that come out of gravel it was disgusting, when I got home in small buckets I had to wash each bucket of gravel a dozen times and that is no exaggeration.
Incredible, but what baffles me is how did these fish survive?
One handful clouded the whole entire aquarium.
So was it just waste, was it the gravel, or was it those porous (which looked like manmade or certainly done up to be all the same brown colour bleeding dust into the substrate.
I know from all the equipment he had that there was no Gravel cleaner. He had an entire Test kit but when I went to use it not one of the 5 test bottles had been used.
What’s your Hunch?
The decor was all Brown Lava rock. It is light brown with every rock with a hole through it.
There must have been 2o large rock in a 4ft aquarium with medium sized fish.
He had so many filters in it he said he only needed to water change once every 3 months. The water was clear.
We went to catch the fish, at this point I would like to add the substrate is black/blue/yellow gravel and was around 2 inches deep, Well we started and the first swoop produced so much crap from the substrate I could not believe it. After 3 attempts I could not see a thing.
I have never ever seen water like that come out of gravel it was disgusting, when I got home in small buckets I had to wash each bucket of gravel a dozen times and that is no exaggeration.
Incredible, but what baffles me is how did these fish survive?
One handful clouded the whole entire aquarium.
So was it just waste, was it the gravel, or was it those porous (which looked like manmade or certainly done up to be all the same brown colour bleeding dust into the substrate.
I know from all the equipment he had that there was no Gravel cleaner. He had an entire Test kit but when I went to use it not one of the 5 test bottles had been used.
What’s your Hunch?
Since the gravel is colored, it could be that it's painted and this paint will eventually chip off. Unless you are particularly fond of this color scheme, I suggest you get rid of it and buy some inexpensive natural sand or gravel to replace it.
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