So I started to cycle my tank on 5/22. I did everything horribly wrong because of cloudy water. It was frustrating me and I kept doing LARGE water changes and i'm sure I just kept hitting the reset button on cycling. My tank is still not cycled, but i'm not so sure I want to cycle it anymore. How terribly wrong would it be to just do LARGE weekly water changes? I would be testing my water weekly and probably ammonia daily or every other. OR whatever testing i need to do to make this work!
Here's my issue, the water I am using is my regular tap water, I am treating it with prime. The water is my cloudy issue (i THINK), i just dont know what about it is bad. I have the axies in tubs right now and i'm doing daily water changes. After a few hours I can notice the tub water is a bit cloudy too, so this leads me to believe its my tap water! I dont know how or why!
So my question to you is~
what water can I just go out and buy and be ok with? Distilled? Spring? Purified?
I'm willing to add things to it (ie remineralizer) if I need to.
I also have access to:
Well water
R/O Water
The tank looks sad and pathetic, you cant see squat in there! I removed 2 live plants I had going, a cave and all the huge river rock just in case it was that.. but it wasnt...I'm new to all this, please help.
Here's my issue, the water I am using is my regular tap water, I am treating it with prime. The water is my cloudy issue (i THINK), i just dont know what about it is bad. I have the axies in tubs right now and i'm doing daily water changes. After a few hours I can notice the tub water is a bit cloudy too, so this leads me to believe its my tap water! I dont know how or why!
So my question to you is~
what water can I just go out and buy and be ok with? Distilled? Spring? Purified?
I'm willing to add things to it (ie remineralizer) if I need to.
I also have access to:
Well water
R/O Water
The tank looks sad and pathetic, you cant see squat in there! I removed 2 live plants I had going, a cave and all the huge river rock just in case it was that.. but it wasnt...I'm new to all this, please help.