first of all my parameters are
salinity: 1.022
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrates: 2
Phosphate: 0.03
bio load 5 fish in a 20 gallon with clean up crew of snails hermit, brittle star and a cleaner shrimp. Everyone seems to be doing pretty good.
Using a hang on back filter which I also changed from aqueon 30 -40 recently. Changed a filter cartridge a month ago ( 3 months old tank ) after it was cycled to reduce nitrates that were reaching 25ppm every week and had to do water changes to reduce it water was clear but not crystal. Recently bought the RODI unit. Using rodi water now from tap and seeing a good amount of coralline algae grow cause of it. Did only 2 water changes with RODI water.
back to the topic I have not fed my fish for 3 days thinking the water will clear up seeing no change and resumed back to my feeding schedule starting today. Before feeding checked my almost month old filter cartridge it’s still looked pretty covered in gunk
I did so many changes that I have no idea what might be the cause.
any help would be appreciated, I’m scratching my head cause of this
thank you.
salinity: 1.022
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0
Nitrates: 2
Phosphate: 0.03
bio load 5 fish in a 20 gallon with clean up crew of snails hermit, brittle star and a cleaner shrimp. Everyone seems to be doing pretty good.
Using a hang on back filter which I also changed from aqueon 30 -40 recently. Changed a filter cartridge a month ago ( 3 months old tank ) after it was cycled to reduce nitrates that were reaching 25ppm every week and had to do water changes to reduce it water was clear but not crystal. Recently bought the RODI unit. Using rodi water now from tap and seeing a good amount of coralline algae grow cause of it. Did only 2 water changes with RODI water.
back to the topic I have not fed my fish for 3 days thinking the water will clear up seeing no change and resumed back to my feeding schedule starting today. Before feeding checked my almost month old filter cartridge it’s still looked pretty covered in gunk
I did so many changes that I have no idea what might be the cause.
any help would be appreciated, I’m scratching my head cause of this
thank you.