Water cloudy after planting.

hondaman

hondaman

Quisiera ser un fish!
Dec 15, 2005
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Hey guys, as you may that while I have been keeping fish for awhile, I am new to the whole live plant thing.

Yesterday after doing my usual "Saturday Night Cleaning" I planted 5 "Sword Grass" bunches. Before planting I followed most of the advise I have read on here including cleaning each plant thoroughly blade by blade to remove unwanted snails.

Usually after my water changes the water clears up within a few hours, here it is almost 15 hours later and the water is still cloudy white.

Should I be concerned about this?
 
You probably released a lot of little particles while digging in your gravel.Do another water change to help remove them.

How often do you do gravel vacuumings? That would help next time you do some planting. Just vac the areas you plan on digging in and less 'stuff' will end up floating around.

You could have also released enough bacteria to start a bloom, I don't really know much about them. Cure is probably water changes as that seems to be the cure all for everything minor.
 
Well i do a gravel vacuuming every week. I thoroughly vacuum the bottom of the tank (to the glass) and mix up the gravel. This time I did nothing different other than planting.
 
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