It looks great 🙂 The water is yellow because it’s touching something organic, such as the soil or wood? 🙂 I don’t see any wood, but the soil seems very wet. If you change to something more akin to aqua soil, it can be wet but not stain the water like that. ps, tannins aren’t harmful, so it’s purely an aesthetic question. The neon tetras actually prefer it.
Arachnid_anarchy
Yellow brown water is usually from tannins that leech from wood, leaf litter, and other botanicals and is kind of an aesthetic choice. I’ve heard lots of anecdotal evidence that tannins in the water can be good for animals.
As long as the water parameters are good it’s not a problem.
It will go away with water changes and you can boil botanicals and wood before adding them to minimize the tannins if you don’t like the look
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Vampire crabs would look nice
No-World2849
Great looking tank, nice stream.
Yup, it’s tannins. Mine is the same but I went for wood scaping so it’s expected. Not harmful but beneficial for most fish. I like the look. Water changes will reduce it, activated charcoal in filter will help too.
Taako_Well
Looks absolutely amazing.
Original-Soil-2132
What light is that?
No-World2849
If there is no wood, is there any peat in the soil? Lot’s of tannins in peat
_bitchin_camaro_
I have those same fittonias, they’re growing like weeds
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It looks great 🙂 The water is yellow because it’s touching something organic, such as the soil or wood? 🙂
I don’t see any wood, but the soil seems very wet. If you change to something more akin to aqua soil, it can be wet but not stain the water like that.
ps, tannins aren’t harmful, so it’s purely an aesthetic question. The neon tetras actually prefer it.
Yellow brown water is usually from tannins that leech from wood, leaf litter, and other botanicals and is kind of an aesthetic choice. I’ve heard lots of anecdotal evidence that tannins in the water can be good for animals.
As long as the water parameters are good it’s not a problem.
It will go away with water changes and you can boil botanicals and wood before adding them to minimize the tannins if you don’t like the look
Vampire crabs would look nice
Great looking tank, nice stream.
Yup, it’s tannins. Mine is the same but I went for wood scaping so it’s expected. Not harmful but beneficial for most fish. I like the look. Water changes will reduce it, activated charcoal in filter will help too.
Looks absolutely amazing.
What light is that?
If there is no wood, is there any peat in the soil? Lot’s of tannins in peat
I have those same fittonias, they’re growing like weeds