Cloudy water in my Oscar tank.?
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Well you almost got one by me, But I will not be fooled by big long questions lol.
I was about to agree with the first guy but then I re-read that part about you took the filter out ? DId you take the filter off the tank and while you treated ? That was a mistake unfortunately, you where only supposed to take the activated carbon pad out, not the whole filter. The cloudless is because you killed off a HUGE portion of your beneficial bacteria by doing that. Your tank is basically re-cycling now and that cloudiness is a bacterial bloom. That water clear stuff only makes dirt and detris particals sick together, it won’t remove the bacterial bloom. It could take a couple of weeks for your tank to reastablish so in that time just be carfull about your feeding, only feed every other day.
Rocking two filters is great actually, maybe this missidentification of the problem on your end is really a bleesing, Esspecially with Oscars. The Extra filter won’t make it cycle any faster though I’m afriad, Its still gonna take anywhere from 5 days to 2 weeks. Its not gonna hurt the fish though so don’t worry about them, just keep up your weekly water changes and don’t do anymore emergency water changes or add anymore products to your tank. If all your levels Test ok then just sit back and let the natural wolrd do its thing, Good Luck, Hope your Oscars grow up nice and big.
1. Depends on the treatment, i’m taking a wild stab in the dark ( well somewhat ) but I think that the filtration is not sufficient, 2 Juv. Oscars is about the equivilant of a full grown one, 2-3 extremely poweful filters ( like aquaclear 110′s ) should handle their mess.
2. Possibly, read below
3. It might take 2-7 days depending on the strength, the water could be cloudy due to an insufficient amount of beneficial bacteria, check this website out: http://www.ratemyfishtank.com/articles/100
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSJV2SfSqY0 , i suggest you do.
5. What’s the Q? Remove them before stuff gets brutal.
Good luck