Cloudy Aquarium Help

hmm, maybe the water company did something to change the tap water chemistry. sometimes when it's hot like it has been lately, they will change the pH of it, is what I've heard. it does sound like something killed off your biological filter.

i think those two combined may be the reason for the deaths of your fishes.
 
Thats what I am thinking my main concern is keeping the water safe for the ones that lived. My barbs and balas were a nice size and my loaches are also fairly large so I don't want to lose them also.
 
Before you did that 50% water change, what exactly was your water change schedule like? How much and how frequently? IT actually sounds a bit like OTS, which is odd on a tank that has only been running a couple of months????
 
If your ammonia and Nitrites are both at 2.0 ppm, that is really high. You should probably be doing at least daily 50% water changes to bring those down, which should eventually hep the cloudy water as well.
 
MPaulley said:
My tank is a 65 gal tall tank with 4 clown loaches 3 gold fish a red tailed shark and gobby dragon. The tank has been up and going for 2 or 3 months now but I noticed I have to change about 15 gals of water a week out and the tank starts to cloud up badly a week later. all the levels show good on the test strips but I would like to know if anyone knows why the water clouds so fast and what can I do to prevent this. when I vacum the tank I do not get any old food etc from eth gravel and I carfully watch what I feed the fish. Thanks in advance for any help/advise.
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I love how everyone ignores the fact your stocking is awful. I won't.

The goldfish and everything else need to be separated. They are coldwater fish and the rest are trops. Bare minimum for 3 goldfish: 45 gallons.

The dragon goby is a brackish fish and has different requirements. It will not live long in FW, so it needs to be separated as well.

Since you researched your fish so poorly, I can only imagine what else has been set up/done wrong. Read the newbie stickies. Read on cycling. I would bet you are essentially cycling your tank with expensive fish, and the cloudiness is caused by ammonia buildup from the goldfish, which are terribly dirty fish. If you can see bleeding in the fins of any of your fish they are being poisoned by the ammonia.
 
Actually since you so kindly like to flame and jump to conclusions the fish were dumped on me by someone who was going to flush them, you would have known that had you read any of my other posts. So I erally had no choice in the fish the tank was already cycled before even got the fish I did a water change and it seemed to have cycled the tank again. Now I followed everyones advise and did the 50% water change and I notice that my loaches are now swimming sideways and into the glass? I added the proper amount of amquel and the water is exactly 82 deg the same as it always has been I tested teh water and all teh levels dropped. The PH has remaned the same? is there anything I can do to keep the loaches from dying?
 
This will be the second time I have done a 50% water change instead of my normal 14 to 20 and had fish die. any idead what is causing this?
 
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