My Water Is Wierd

[frida]

ok so ill try to help you help me as best i can
one of my plastic plants has red in it
i dont have my own test kit so i cant tell you any thing as far as testing goes but the temp is 74 degrees F (my heater quit earlier but its running now).


i put my water in a jar looked at it in the light and its still kind of pink.
i added the ornaments when i got the tank so like a month ago.
i dont think ill be able to angle my filter cause its also my aerator and to get it high enough the result would i would have a realy wet computer desk and a really dry fishtank
no i dont have a flow ajuster as far as i know.
if by running carbon you mean having a carbon filter cartrige then thats covered.
and of course my tank is cycled
i hope this can help you to help me !

I'm a bit confused - how did you cycle your tank (be it fish-in or fishless) without a test kit?
As for the colour... I guess it's either your ornaments (although seems strange that it only started to leach so much now after a month) or maybe some weird bacterial / algal bloom of some sort. Does it keep on coming back even if you do large water changes?

 

[waterdrop]

Part of all this questioning is just the nature of how forums work, sometimes we all need to ask a lot of questions because we're coming from different experiences and all. If the tank was obtained a month ago, that puts a question in our minds about the cycling because we see many cases of tanks not having cycled in a month (regardless of whether the cycling was a fish-in method or a fishless method.) And not having a full testing kit is a common warning signal to us because getting water tested at shops is notorious for mis-information in that the shops will often tell beginners "oh, its just fine" when in fact its not. (They do it for a variety of reasons, such as getting a fish sale "right then" or more often just as a way to -keep- a customer from dropping out of the hobby early because of the patience involved.)

Now it may be that you have used mature media from your other tanks or have obtained it from other sources. Is that the case? (I'm not questioning that you have a cycled tank, just trying to help getting to the answers while passing through best-practice diagnosing for tanks, I feel.)

~~waterdrop~~

 

[frida]

Just wanted to add: sorry if it sounded and felt like the inquisition - just trying to get things clear so we know how to tackle your problem No bad feelings!!

 

[rockdon]

sorry guys i must have had a brain freeze or some thing my tank is more like a month and three weeks old.
btw theres a whole story to my tank cycling first last year i made a plan to catch some minnows grow them in my pond and use them for fishing bait to save money. any way all died exept one and i figured i would winterise it and release it in the spring when theres usualy lots of minnows i was getting a fish tank anyway so i bought the tank and tossed the minnow in then i figuered i might as well buy some more fish i ended up reading tons om material on cycling so i went to the store and the person said to buy some good hardy fish along with the one i had to cycle it so i bought two platys this was a week days after the minnow went in so i brought in my first water sample and they said to wait another week then come back in that week i lost the minnow and one platy to ick i had treated my last fish for ick and brought my water in the person gave me the ok and i bought two guppies one guppy was dead in a few days luckly it was in the warranty time and i was able to get a replacment for free. the following saturday came my oto and two days ago my gourami. personaly i think due to the ick treatment and the leakage from an ornament turned my water brown then tea color (which i thought was an algea bloom ) then red. is probalby why i noticed it so late.

the bulbs are as old as the tank.

i dont know if it comes back after large water changes i only do smaller more frequent water changes.

btw i know every ones just trying to help and fellings arent purposelly being hurt here so nope no hard feelings frida