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toxiceagle2007 · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject: Yellowing Water

Hello All,

I have a question about the water in my turtle set up.

I have a bare minimum set up in a 65 gallon tank. I have large pieces of store bought & home boiled slate in the bottom of the tank.

I also have a turtle dock and a fluval 4 filter (until I can get one or two more or a canister filter)

Also there are 3 large feeder comets and one small feeder guppy along with two (male & female) RES.

My question is, what can I do about the water that is turning yellow?

I thought it was the slate pieces in the bottom, but they've been washed and rewashed. Also they've been there for a long time so its strange that the water is turning yellow now.

I plan on doing a partial water change to alleviate my problem right now, but I'd prefer to prevent it from happening again.

Thanks! [/img]
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Jdude101 · Level 3 Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 191 Location: Georgia

you mght just want to replace all, or about 5/6 of your water. only changing half will still leave some of the yellowness. I really don't know what i am talking about but, i do know it would help if you change your water

punkflash54 · Level 2 Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 73

yeah i would recomment doing a complete water change and maybe that will get the yellowish color to go away
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toxiceagle2007 · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject:

I did about a 75% water change.

I have an internal filter so I didn't want to change all of the water. From fish tank experience, I know you can't do a 100% water change because the filter naturally builds up symbiotic bacteria that helps to filter the water.

Its still slightly yellow, but its getting better Smile

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Jdude101 · Level 3 Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 191 Location: Georgia

hm, you might want to think about getting an external filter, or not, I dunno.
ovcertime tho you still might want to just change the water to get rid of the rest of the yellow