clear up my tank?????

[chifan26]

My tank is very cloudy all the time it clears up after like a week but when ever i clean the tank it gets real cloudy i was wondering if there is anything that you can put in there to clear it up faster like any solutions, rocks, powders, anything????????Thanks.

[Casey]

Magnum 350 diatom filter works great!

[Tim224DT]

What are your tank specs? How are you cleaning your tank? Are you running carbon in your filter?


Tim

[Loverotties]

Do you have a skimmer and if so what kind?

[chifan26]

no im looking for something to make a quick overnight fix thats kinda cheap and works great.

[Casey]

Originally Posted by chifan26

no im looking for something to make a quick overnight fix thats kinda cheap and works great.

No such thingy carbon is your best bet then.

[chifan26]

my tank is fine, yes i have carbon in my filter yes i have a skimmer i think its broken but a skimmer wont clear up the cloudyness.

[Tim224DT]

What size tank is it? How many fish do you have in it? What kind of filtration are you using?


Tim

[chifan26]

55 gal 8 fish 4 clowns 4 damsels. overflow filter.

[Tim224DT]

How much do you feed? And what do you feed? How much flow do you have?


Tim

[Tim224DT]

btw how old is the carbon? And is the carbon setup where the water flows through it?

[chifan26]

i feed them shrimp, the carbon is new and yes its set up where it flows through.

[Tim224DT]

Shrimp as in Mysis or brine shrimp? How often do you feed? When you clean what type of cleaning do you do? Do you siphone out water then add water back in only. or are you stiring your substrate up?

Tim

[chifan26]

brine shirmp 1 or 2 times a day i clean when ever it gets dark like brown green i use a magnet to get the crud off the glass and i bleach the dead coral, rocks, ect. what do you mean by that last question?

[Tim224DT]

The last questions is do you stir up the bottom of your tank while you are cleaning?

Brine Shrimp are not that healty for fish, look into getting mysis shrimp. Also you really only need to feed every other to every third day. I feed my fish like that and many other people do. Instead of bleach use vinager water mixture to clean your dead corals. It is safer for the fish. What kind of flow do you have? I know when i had my small tank with little flow it would always cloud up when i added more flow it kept it clearer.

Tim