Hi,
was not sure where to put this one, so i decided to enter it on the algae sub-forum:
my aquarium (230 l) used to run on an internal filter. I decided to add an external canister, which should have become the main filter with time. The canister i ordered came with a bottle of bio-active liquid which i needed to add to the siporax layer in the filter. Which i did. Only i did it before i read the instructions which said: 5ml per week to every 200 L of water. I added the whole 50 ml - that is a 10 times overdose.
The situation started getting ugly. The filter outtake started pouring whitish stuff which started spreading on everything. The third day was awful - nearly one fifth of the water column was full clouds of this stuff - happy ammonia bacteria.
Meanwhile my old internal filter broke down so i needed to get it out earlier.
I started daily 20l water changes trying to remove the stuff. I did that twice already. The outtake kind of stopped to produce it but still there is a lot of it left and i think it is there to stay.
So, any ideas what to do or what might happen ?
Thanks in advance
was not sure where to put this one, so i decided to enter it on the algae sub-forum:
my aquarium (230 l) used to run on an internal filter. I decided to add an external canister, which should have become the main filter with time. The canister i ordered came with a bottle of bio-active liquid which i needed to add to the siporax layer in the filter. Which i did. Only i did it before i read the instructions which said: 5ml per week to every 200 L of water. I added the whole 50 ml - that is a 10 times overdose.
The situation started getting ugly. The filter outtake started pouring whitish stuff which started spreading on everything. The third day was awful - nearly one fifth of the water column was full clouds of this stuff - happy ammonia bacteria.
Meanwhile my old internal filter broke down so i needed to get it out earlier.
I started daily 20l water changes trying to remove the stuff. I did that twice already. The outtake kind of stopped to produce it but still there is a lot of it left and i think it is there to stay.
So, any ideas what to do or what might happen ?
Thanks in advance