odd color water?

[Abercrombie6202]

WEll from the front view of my tank, my tank has pretty, uncloudy water, and looks beautiful, but if you see my tnak from the sides the water looks yellow and merky!!

Is it supose to do this, i do 20% water changes every 2 weeks, change my filter cratridge every month, i even bought a new filter. Is this normal, is it good for my fish?

I know some of my fish like a merkier water, but i don't know i'm confused! HELP?

 

[Paul]

your just seeing through a much greater volume of water when looking through the side. Even my tanks that look pristine from the front will look a little cloudy through the side. Your seeing more suspended particulate matter by looking through the side. It shouldn't hurt anything. Just do normal water changer maybe add some more plants that should help with the cloudyness.

 

[wayne at home]

If it's yellow coloured, but not cloudt , and looks ok in evening light but not sunlight it might be dissolved sulphur from flake food. Also maybe tannin from wood. If it's actually cloudy , bacterial bloom as you've overloaded your filter. For the first two try carbon filtering

 

[Abercrombie6202]

I do use carbon filtering, but it's still not working i took my water out in a bag today and the water was a yellowish color

 

[zimmerlyct]

Get a UV Filter....that bad boy will make the ugliest water in the World clear!!! I'd say about 9w is all you need unless you have a kazillion gallon tank...then beef up to a 18w...

 

[wayne at home]

Whats in the tank? How long did you carbon filter.UV will kill bacteria/algae for sure, but not dissolved chemical rubbish

 

[SoulFish]

why not just get a diatom filter it will get everything and anything out of the water including parasites

 

[niki090909]

do you have driftwood in your tank?

 

[Abercrombie6202]

Would driftwood be the reaosn?

 

[SoulFish]

wood releases tannins into the water which will make the water brown or yellow tinted, you can use activated carbon and water changes

 

[niki090909]

Well I had a decent size piece of driftwood in my 55 gallon tank. My water had a tint of yellow to cloudyness to it. I used activated carbon and did 25% water changes twice a week. The water never cleared up at all after 1 1/2 months. So i took the drift wood out. After one water change I noticed a difference. And about 2 weeks later, and 4 water changes later, things were crystal clear again.

Can't say this is your problem, but it was mine, GOOD LUCK!