Yellow Aquarium Water – It’s Not Like ‘Yellow Snow’

I know, I know I was trying to be humerous with the title to this post and yes I know – it didn’t work!

Anyway, yellow aquarium water – what’s that all about then?

Yellow aquarium water is caused by organic matter which is decaying and forms a ‘yellow’ matter in the aquarium. The term for this is gilvin.

So why has this happened and what can you do to rectify it. [Read more]

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