way too cool

 

Good lookin' fishies.

Question for all you fish people: My roomate has a goldfish in a 10 gallon tank, maybe a 4"-5" inch fish. No matter what he tries he can't seem to get the water to stay clear. It's always dank and murky. He has a charcoal/biological filter that's always running, and I know he's used some sort of chemicals to try and clear it up but to no avail. Anybody have any magic murky-water remedies? Should he get some snails or something?

 

Is it near a window?

 

Nope, in a hallway with no windows around.

 

1. overfeeding
2. the kind of food
3. dirty gravel
4. not enough filtration (get bigger filter)

 

1. probably not, Jaws eats everything put before him and my roomate feeds him sparingly
2. Maybe - though it claims it "Won't dirty the water if used correctly."
3. We've tried cleaning the gravel
4. Maybe

 

1. gold fish make a lot of poop on their own
2. Water changes with filtered (non-tap) water.
3. More water changes, tried for 20% every other week.

This is the only picture I have of a fish that isn't blurry. They are really afraid of cameras, you can sit there and they'll come out but not if you have a camera. Plus one of the species can turn almost black and completely blend in with background.

 

Out of about 50 pictures taken, these are the only ones that you can see a fish.

 

yea, its so hard to take pics of mine. they move too fast.