Hello,
I was browsing the web for some fish help and found this board, hopefully someone here can help me with my question!
I have a 5 1/2 gallon fish tank in my room. I've had a tank before, so I have a general idea of what i'm doing (though i'm still quite the newbie). Sunday I cleaned the tank out (I had a previous fish (betta) in the tank, but I moved him to a smaller bowl so I could put different fish in the tank.. long story
) and installed an undergravel airation thingy 
Then I let the tank run for about 32 hours with no fish. I added some of wardley's bullseye 7.0 ph stuff, then let the tank sit for about 8 more hours.
I then purchased a fish for my tank (algae eater... I can't spell the plecostomus word ), floated him in the tank for 15 mins, then put him in... All was fine for about 3 hours.
Now we come to the problem: my water is cloudy. It looks like someone jammed a cloud in the water... it's all white and I can barely see the filter hanging on the back of the tank! I've never seen this before. I thought it might go away overnight, but it hasn't, and i'm kind of worried as to what caused it. Can anyone suggest anything? The water was crystal clear before I put in my fish.. and I didn't put in the water he came in... so i'm quite confused. Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions, and sorry about the long post!
- Joe
I was browsing the web for some fish help and found this board, hopefully someone here can help me with my question!
I have a 5 1/2 gallon fish tank in my room. I've had a tank before, so I have a general idea of what i'm doing (though i'm still quite the newbie). Sunday I cleaned the tank out (I had a previous fish (betta) in the tank, but I moved him to a smaller bowl so I could put different fish in the tank.. long story
) and installed an undergravel airation thingy Then I let the tank run for about 32 hours with no fish. I added some of wardley's bullseye 7.0 ph stuff, then let the tank sit for about 8 more hours.I then purchased a fish for my tank (algae eater... I can't spell the plecostomus word ), floated him in the tank for 15 mins, then put him in... All was fine for about 3 hours.
Now we come to the problem: my water is cloudy. It looks like someone jammed a cloud in the water... it's all white and I can barely see the filter hanging on the back of the tank! I've never seen this before. I thought it might go away overnight, but it hasn't, and i'm kind of worried as to what caused it. Can anyone suggest anything? The water was crystal clear before I put in my fish.. and I didn't put in the water he came in... so i'm quite confused. Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions, and sorry about the long post!
- Joe
