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Obsidian · 03-18-2008, 11:53 PM

Hello
My 20 gallon tank is continuing to have problems and I am now officially frustrated. The water gets cloudy when I change the water, but the parameters say everything is fine (0 ammo 0 nitrite about 8 nitrate). There is very little algae in this tank, which has happened over the last month. At that time there was noticeable algae.

Now I have ich. I don't know if it is from my new cherry barbs (2 females added about 10 days ago) or if it is from whatever is making my water cloudy. I have to think something is causing this. I don't have tests for hardness. Is there anything about hardness that would make my water cloudy?

For the moment I have raised the temp a notch (tank is already at 80-82) and I added in the first of 4 tablespoons of salt after completing a 20% water change. I will add in subsequent tablespoons of salt with daily water changes and if I don't see a change by the weekend I will buy some ich meds.

Any thoughts/suggestions/insights would be appreciated. I really don't care to loose all my fish.

03-18-2008, 11:53 PM	#1
Obsidian Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Arizona Age: 37 Posts: 1,058	Cloudy with ich?? Hello My 20 gallon tank is continuing to have problems and I am now officially frustrated. The water gets cloudy when I change the water, but the parameters say everything is fine (0 ammo 0 nitrite about 8 nitrate). There is very little algae in this tank, which has happened over the last month. At that time there was noticeable algae. Now I have ich. I don't know if it is from my new cherry barbs (2 females added about 10 days ago) or if it is from whatever is making my water cloudy. I have to think something is causing this. I don't have tests for hardness. Is there anything about hardness that would make my water cloudy? For the moment I have raised the temp a notch (tank is already at 80-82) and I added in the first of 4 tablespoons of salt after completing a 20% water change. I will add in subsequent tablespoons of salt with daily water changes and if I don't see a change by the weekend I will buy some ich meds. Any thoughts/suggestions/insights would be appreciated. I really don't care to loose all my fish. __________________ Obsidian 20 gallon 1 Dwarf Gourami; 5 Cherry Barbs; 7 Black Neon Tetras; 3 Peppered Cory's; 1 Albino Bristlenose Pleco (Old Blondie) 10 gallon Breaking it down for storage. 5.5 gallon Betta 100 gallon 7 giant danios; 4 Rosy Barbs, 1 German Blue Ram, 7 Julie Cory cats, 2 Burmese Loaches; 4 Zebra Danios