Acara Mom

I checked the water parameters again and they are perfect. I decided to psiphon out the debris and not add any additional water to not cause dilution of the medications. Thanks for your input! if anybody has any thoughts on what all that junk was in the water please let me know. This is a nice forum. I just found it tonight. I am enjoying reading other people's posts and thank you for your input

Maracyn says it can cause cloudy water but the debris in the bottom of the tank now is concerning. There are a few tiny pieces of sand particles those at the very white pieces that you see in the photo but I left the tank bare bottom since it's a quarantine thank

I'm about ready to forget the quarantine meds and just change the water. Going to go check water again

The cycled sponge filter and a little bag of cycled bio rings are tucked in the back. I had the filter items in a grow out tank that previously held my EBA fry until I moved them to large tank. I'm checking water daily since newer setup in 10 gal quarantine tank I watched it for about a week and all good. Two days almost new fish and water was perfect. PH 6.8-7 0 on all others. Also, the water in this area has low PH and low KH GH. I've raise it a little with crushed coral

Ps I am new to the area that I live in so I was shopping around at different fish stores and picked up some plants from a kind of interesting pet store that did a lot of more natural looking tanks that were not the cleanest looking. I put a plant that floats in the same tank from that shop. I suppose it could’ve had some yucky stuff on it

While looking for information the larger debris Is now on floor of tank thanks for reply

Starting a new tank so quarantining the first group of fish with trio. After 24 hours, my water is very cloudy and some yucky stuff floating around (some of which is stringy) Just read one of Aquarium Co-Op's blogs that said not to feed for a few days...but a little late on that because I fed them since they came from big box store. Question: how long do I let them swim in such a mess? Is this normal? Ps I have another tank but never had this issue.