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He Uses Ga-a-a-soline......
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By Phry, Section Ask Guppylog
Posted on Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 12:25:10 PM PST
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Lately my filter seems to be catching some interesting impurities in the water. It looks as though there is some oily residue which resembles gasoline or soap.
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Of course, like any good aquarium owner I make very certain that soap doesn't enter the tank, and I've stopped filling tanks with Unleaded a few months ago (oh, ha, ha....)
I have a Whisper Micro-Filter, side-mount. Its worked very, very well for me. For the sake of simplicity, I can describe the filter as having intake into Chamber A, from which point water passes through the filter, flowing into Chamber B, which flows back into the tank. Oh, how complex :) 'Chamber A' has recently been filling up with- as mentioned- some oily residue. I have no idea what this may be- fairly confident it isn't soap- but it seems (hopefully) to be pooling in 'A' and not passing through the filter.
Does anyone know what this may be? There is, currently, a fine young bloom of algae in the tank that I have been trying to fight off. Could this account for the strange water quality? An accidental overdose of dechlor? This is a 10gal with 8-10 or so very young fry (2 weeks old), 3 julii corydoras, sand and gravel, anacharis, regular water changes... I've changed the filter element with no success. I use the tank for breeding and raising fry for the first 3-4 weeks. I have Whisper Micros on my other 10g's, but have not had this happen before. Ideas? |
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