Me again, sorry !

The standard internal filter on my sons 180 ltr tank decided to die yesterday so we went out and got a Eheim Classic 2215 external filter with sponge filteration, we left one of the sponges out and replaced it with 4 of the sponge filters from the Internal filter. Today tho his tank looks cloudy....

Fish dont appear stressed or ill, water parameters as follows..

Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 50
GH 3
KH 6
PH 6.4

Plan on a 25-30% water change tomorrow to try and bring the nitrates down but its bothering me I really dont want a 12 yr old having a tank of dead fish

It has platys, danions, neons and a couple of tiny bristlenoses in

Any advice?

Thanks,

Donna

hello donna, i wouldnt worry too much, youve done everything correctly, do as you plan, a 20-25% water change asap, then another in a couple days, repeat this for a week or so + youll be ok, did any of the muck come outta the old filter as you removed it? if so this could be why the tanks gone cloudy...you could try adding some filter wool/floss to the filter

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Hi Telboy

Thanks for the reply... we managed to get the old filter out without too much muck coming out but yes some did get into the tank.. I will pick up some filter wool tomorrow and add that to the filter, see if that works.

Donna
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