slow down... less is more
questions:
1) how often are you changing your filter media?
2) how long are your lights on during the day?
3) how much are you feeding? (times per day and how many minutes the food sits in the water column)
answers:
I meant if high nutrients are bad for the fish? I know they look awful.
it really depends on the nutrients, high nutrients have been linked to some common diseases, but that is mainly nitrates
I went to my lfs and I bought a Bio-wheel Power Filter. The kind man working there said he knew exactly whats up with my tanks, and as you guys said "too much nutrients". And he also said possible from over feeding.
Another thing he said to do is to turn the light off, I just have a regular hood lighting (for fw) and that causes algae.
this is probably not the problem unless you're running the light over 11 hrs/day
The after it running for just under 2days the tank has not cleared up much since. I'll give more time though.
this can have some nasty affects on your liverock... if there are things on it that are photosynthetic, they could be in jepordy
I've been thinking about the sand too. Looks pretty bad too.
Would it be ok to get new live sand and add that? Take out the old and put my clown goby in a smaller tank while I do this?
no need to do this, but a siphoning of the sand could help
And maybe take the lr out and give it a good scrubbing.
no need unless you have nussiance microalgae on the liverock, this may do more harm than good
Also doing a 50% wc with water form my lfs, I've been using faucet water and maybe there water might turn out better.
key word might, some lfs's don't have the best water available, check if its ro or ro/di or whatever it might be... ask them the TDS... if they don't know ask them how often the membrane is changed, also ALWAYS check the salinity of lfs water... some cut corners and don't add enough salt
I'm thinking of all the possible ideas to why my tank is so dirty.
KGH
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