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ive been tryong to get to the pet store for a few days, but too much has been going on. Will try to go this weekend, as long as no one thinks I should wait longer.

So I have all my levels normal, water clear, any certain more amount of time I should wait before trying to introduce a fish?

I try to clean the filters in a staggered way, so that one will be clean while the other is dirty and has a chance to put the good bac back on the clean filter before its cleaned. Flower, that was some good advice and I thank you a lot for it. When I got my decor, I was thinking more for looks...

no, i do not have any live rock. just a few ocean coral-style decorations and a cave. all are pet-store aquarium decorations.

I also just vacuumed the top layer of sand out of the tank, removed and cleaned decorations and did a 50% water change. In the last hour and a half, the water has become 50% clearer.

I also just vacuumed the top layer of sand out of the tank,cleaned decorations and did a 50% water change. Will update later.

First off, thank you for your responses. I've been pulling my hair out over this. I believe now that it is a bacteria bloom. Water is still cloudy. I haven't had any nitrites show up since the new filter, but yesterdays tests indicated ammonia at .5 ppm. pH up to 8.0. I only have one powerhead...

Just picked up a phosphate test kit and it read 0.I was not feeding more than they would consume, but any excess was cleaned up. My nitrites and nitrates had both went a little over mid-way up the chart, but I was using a crappy top fin filter. Once I switched to the marineland emperor 400...

If it was a bacteria bloom, what would it be caused by, and how could I prevent it in the future?

no I don't, nor do I remember seeing one around any of the local stores. Ill have to find one online.you think that killed the fish? I just looked at my original post and saw that I left out info. I had 5 small baby hermits for cleaning purposes, and they were left unaffected. Even today they're...

Hey everyone, I have a 55 gallon tank that had a yellow tang, two baby clowns, a blue damsel, a pom pom crab and a chocolate chip sea star. I introduced about 1 every week to two weeks, with the exception of the clowns. I had a problem the last two weeks with the water getting cloudy. I awoke...