Fish: Re: [tropical fish club] Need some advice....

First thing is to check your water source. Run a couple of
tests on it to insure proper pH for the fish you have. Next, we need
more information. How big is the tank. What fish do you have in there
and how big are they? Any live plants, the tank temperature?

A Master test kit from API would help you established many of these questions about water parameters. Are you using any "additives" such as Amquel or Prime with you're water changes? The bacterial blooms that you speak of, are they only with water changes?

The more information you provide the more we can help you.

Bill

--- On Tue, 2/1/11, jtkq1 <jtkq1@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: jtkq1 <jtkq1@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [tropical fish club] Need some advice....
> To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 2:51 PM
> Hey folks. I'm new to the group, so
> hope I post everything right.. Anyway, I was wondering if
> anyone could help me with what seem to be continual
> . I have two smaller tanks, and regardless
> of what I do on maintenance day, they seem to bloom every
> week and by the time they are clear again, its time to add
> water. I've tried mixing it up, like: changing water w/o
> disturbing the filter, adding water only and slight cleaning
> inside, just doing different routines to see what happens.
> Doesn't seem to matter. Both tanks should be well cycled as
> they've been up and running with fish since last summer, and
> none of the fish seem to be unhealthy. Kinda frustrating,
> I've kept freshwater tanks for years w/o this problem, but
> not with this tap water source. I don't know if that's the
> problem or not. Any advice would be appreciated!
>
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