Hi my tank is little cloudy when I look from the side or from the top. It’s hard to say if it’s more green or white. Any idea why I do not have crystal clear water?
Here is the spec of the tank:
Thank you
Here is the spec of the tank:
- Age of the tank: 8 weeks
- The room of the aquarium if very bright, but there is no direct sunlight on the tank;
- Amoniac and Nitrite at zéro
- Tank: 17 gallons
- Filters: Ehiem 2215 (Seachem Matrix, eheim susbstrate pro and purigen) and Eheim 350 surface skimmer
- Substrat: ADA Amazonia + power sand
- Light: Chihiros 601 Serie A plus 7 h/day
- Co2: Injected Co2 3 bubbles per seconds, open 4 h before light open and close 1 h before light close
- GH 100 ppm and KH 50 ppm (I'm dosing dayly Alkalin buffer because KH constantly droping)
- Water change 50 % per week done with RO water (adjusting GH et KH with Equilibrium and Alkalin buffer)
- Fertilizer: Dry fertilizer (kno3, kh2pso4, k2so4, and CSM+B). Dosing 7 days a week:
- Nitrate: 17 ppm per week. The nitrate level is below 5 ppm after 24 hours.
- Phosphate: 7 ppm per week. The phosphate level is below 1 ppm after 24 hours.
- Potassium: 22 ppm per week
- Iron: 0.6 ppm per week (I’m waiting 30 min between macro and micro dosing)
- Fully planted: Pogostemon, alternantera, staurogyn, Bacopa bonsai, hemianthus, ect;
- Living: 10 danio galaxy, 15 amano shrimp and 2 otocinclus
Thank you