Still Having Troubles

[Rodders]

I extended my reactor so I can get more CO2 into the water.
I've got my Ph just about down to 7ish (colour matches are crap) so looking at about 30ppm now.
Still my water is cloudy and glass gets covered in green in about 3 days from cleaning.
Stiring the gravel a lot to get rid of green which is working well, thats almost clean now.

Just wanna get some crystal clear water now....any ideas

Its got two rena XP3 filters, that 2700 litres per hour which is more than enough I guess??
But its not as much as I had on my old tank which suffered from cloudy water till I upgraded the filter.

 

[riverman444]

What do you have for light?

 

[Spiceweasel69]

what ferts do you use. Do you dose iron with phosphate. That will cloud the water.

 

[Rodders]

i have T8 lighting.
Dosing dry ferts. Iron on phosphates different days to stop clouding.

 

[pseud]

Does the water have a green tint to it when you put some in a white bowl?

Well, I'd stop stirring the gravel. The substrate contains a lot of the healthy bacteria. (I triggered GW in my 55 by stirring up and removing some of the sand).

Is your tank heavily planted? Are the plants established and growing? (Uprooting all plants and then replanting can screw your tank up. When plants first get planted they need to establish good roots before starting to grow nicely and use the nutrients that are in the water)

 

[Rodders]

Well its gone from this

To this

To this

To this

Thats from end of november to now. The water was nice and rocks all clean, now its just all cloudy and dirty brown algea crap etc on rocks and leaves...

I had green water ages ago, bought a UV steriliser and got rid of that. Turned that off now to stop it affecting ferts.
Plants pearl a lot and no lose of growth.
I do have some brown/dead leaves that I cant get rid of. I dose all the things im spose to and got a proper layed out plan of EI which Zig said sounds good.

Just water always stays this cloudy, never worse, never better.....

 

[riverman444]

There is obviously a kink in the chain somewhere. What temperature are you running at?

 

[Rodders]

From memory its 26 to 27 ish.