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Thanks James, I was beginning to wonder if I was dosing to heavy and that might have been the cause. However, I figured out what was actually happening was that when I cleaned my HOB filters. Even though I cleaned the sponges with tank water. Cleaning the unit themselves with tap water caused me to lose my cycle. So lesson learned, but thank you for the advice with dosing, I wasn't sure if I was dosing to much.

Hey guys, sorry I've been very busy with work. Well I think you guys were right, I lost my cycle. I've never done that before so that wasn't something that I thought was happening. I work insanely early in the morning and I just came home to a pristine; like looking through a window, clear tank haha. Sooooo I guess it just kind of took care of itself once the cycle re-established itself. I'm thankful for all the advice given, I never thought about rotating cleaning my filters. Of course I wash the sponges in my HOB filter with tank water. I struggle however cleaning the the HOB unit itself with tank water, simply because it just gets so mucky over time. I was beginning to think that maybe I was overdosing ferts and it was causing problems. But lesson learned, thanks for all the patience with me, as I stated previously. I'm still relatively new to the hobby, and I giggle sometimes at my knowledge with things going on inside my tank. Where as when I first began, I would have been internally panicking. As to now, I can just be like, "yup! its fine, just let this ride and it will do what nature does and balance itself." Anyways, cheers guys, thanks for all the sound advice! Especially with dosing ferts and talking to me about range values. Lastly, thanks for walking me through another learning experience in the hobby! Here's a picture of the tank today, the water is crystal clear, there's just a glare from the window.

Hi all, So this is the first time I've come across this. I'm getting close to 6 months in my planted tank and it's brought me a lot of joy. Anyways, as of last week I noticed that my water had went from being like looking through a window, to being foggy with particles floating everywhere. I did a water change last week (20%) and gravel vacc'd. With still no change this week. I dose Easy Green once to twice a week and Easy Iron 2-3 times per week. My tank is a 55 gallon and I didn't realize my PH had lowered so much, my water is always a little brown because of the drift wood in my tank. I normally keep it at 7.0. So I'm going to add some PH up. My question is, is this normal and healthy for the water to go from so clear to being foggy? Also I added a second light to my tank so that the foreground plants as well as the background plants are all getting equal lighting. At first I thought that I had started to make green water. But as I stated before this is still new to me and I have a lot to learn. I have a myriad of snails, shrimp, and fish. I also last week cleaned my filters with tank water and the actual filter unit itself with tap water. I'm guessing that's ok seeing as how the beneficial bacteria are all in the sponges. My filters are two Tidal 55's with a very large course sponge, the normal sponge that comes with it. I also added a Fluval fine canister filter sponge today at the top to get varying degrees of coarseness throughout the filter. With the Tidal Bio rocks in the mesh bag at the top. I also have a small sponge filter hidden in the back of my tank. I got that about 3 weeks ago now, simply because I've never tried one and wanted to learn how to use it. WAYYYYYYYY easier to use than was made out to me at first by other people haha. Lastly, here are my current water parameters that I tested just before making this post. The Nitrite being 0.25 and the Nitrate being 0 confused me as well. Is this also a normal thing? Also the ammonia usually is 0-0.25, which I don't mind because I've read that the plants essentially "eat" it. If I'm also wrong about that, please educate me. Thanks Y'all! The bottom of the post has pictures of my tank currently. You can see at the edges of the tank the fogginess that I speak of. As with all pictures, it's easier to see in person. PH-6.0 Ammonia- 0.25 Nitrite- 0.25 Nitrate- 0

Hi all, So this is the first time I've come across this. I'm getting close to 6 months in my planted tank and it's brought me a lot of joy. Anyways, as of last week I noticed that my water had went from being like looking through a window, to being foggy with particles floating everywhere. I did a water change last week (20%) and gravel vacc'd. With still no change this week. I dose Easy Green once to twice a week and Easy Iron 2-3 times per week. My tank is a 55 gallon and I didn't realize my PH had lowered so much, my water is always a little brown because of the drift wood in my tank. I normally keep it at 7.0. So I'm going to add some PH up. My question is, is this normal and healthy for the water to go from so clear to being foggy? Also I added a second light to my tank so that the foreground plants as well as the background plants are all getting equal lighting. At first I thought that I had started to make green water. But as I stated before this is still new to me and I have a lot to learn. I have a myriad of snails, shrimp, and fish. I also last week cleaned my filters with tank water and the actual filter unit itself with tap water. I'm guessing that's ok seeing as how the beneficial bacteria are all in the sponges. My filters are two Tidal 55's with a very large course sponge, the normal sponge that comes with it. I also added a Fluval fine canister filter sponge today at the top to get varying degrees of coarseness throughout the filter. With the Tidal Bio rocks in the mesh bag at the top. I also have a small sponge filter hidden in the back of my tank. I got that about 3 weeks ago now, simply because I've never tried one and wanted to learn how to use it. WAYYYYYYYY easier to use than was made out to me at first by other people haha. Lastly, here are my current water parameters that I tested just before making this post. The Nitrite being 0.25 and the Nitrate being 0 confused me as well. Is this also a normal thing? Also the ammonia usually is 0-0.25, which I don't mind because I've read that the plants essentially "eat" it. If I'm also wrong about that, please educate me. Thanks Y'all! The bottom of the post has pictures of my tank currently. You can see at the edges of the tank the fogginess that I speak of. As with all pictures, it's easier to see in person. PH-6.0 Ammonia- 0.25 Nitrite- 0.25 Nitrate- 0

Hey guys just to follow up, the fish didn’t make it. I guess he couldn’t eat and starved. I tried to feed him the same as you would fry, with very very fine food. But even then he couldn’t get anything. I came home and he was dead. But thanks for all the help everyone!

I mean I’m not going to cull him just because he has a thing going on right now. I just wasn’t sure because I mean, he literally has no mouth. It’s like just a hole. Seriously lol he has no face, so my fear was he would starve to death if this wasn’t something that would grow back. But like I said, I have him in salt and some anti-bac solution. But this is my first fish tank so I’m not sure if lips on fish was something that would grow back?

No I do not see any white spots at all. I think he was just hurt during transportation at some point. But I went ahead and put some bacterial remedy along with the salt in his tank. He's not eating but i will just do my due diligence and see what happens.

This is a picture of him btw.

For that to be honest I’m not sure. I fed them yesterday and they all seemed to eat but after I noticed him I put him in the tank by himself and wasn’t sure if I should try and feed him again. So since also posting this I noticed my Molly’s had babies haha. So I just took some ground up fish flake and water and put it near them. I might try the same with him since...well he has no lips and just a hole.

Hello all, I finally after many months of work got my planted community tank established. So I bought a school of neon tetras, I noticed one yesterday is missing his lower lip. He just has a hole where his mouth should be. I have an old 6.5 gal tank that I’ve turned into a hospital tank. I put 2 tablespoons of salt and placed him in there. So I was wondering, will he heal from this? Or should I just cut my losses and euthanize him?