Cloudy water after water change?

[Dan the Fish]

hi all
First off i just want to say i did a search allready for info on this(and yes i rinsed the gravel off long ago) and found no solution to my problem. i have a 10g tank and have had it since september 17th and it is fairly well established wwith green alge(not alot) and healthy fish. However i had done a water change last week and noticed it getting a little cloudy, i put some accu-clear in to try to solve the problem. This did not help any and only seemed to make it cloudier, since then i did a full water test( amm=0 nitrtite=0, and nitrate=7) and found nothing. I figured perhaps i needed a new filter (was using one without carbon in it) so i got a new one and put it in and no change, i put carbon in a day later to hope that would solve it but no luck. Water is still pretty cloudy and i am not sure what else i can do, please help me.
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p.s. wow do my fish love my little laser i shine through it to see the amount of cloudiness!

 

[Dangerdoll]

it's probably just a bacteria bloom from the water change. They were disrupted somehow. How often do you do water changes?

Water changes are the only thing that can subside this in time, using a chlorine/chloramine remover. There's nothing you can really do but wait it out so all the things you're doing, like changing the filter, adding clear-all (water clarifyer) won't do a thing. It might work for a very small amount of time but the fact is that the bacteria are trying to establish themselves.... and that just needs time and patience.

 

[reptileguy2727]

did you take the old filter off when you added the new one? if so you probably removed most of the good bacteria. did you clean the filter at the same time as the water change? again, may have removed too much good bacteria. dont waste your money on water clarifying chemicals, they rarely work and all you are doing is treating the symptom, not the problem. how many fish? what types? how big are they? how much water did you change?

 

[Lund]

I too had very cloudy water. I added some live plants into my tank, and within a week, the cloudiness was gone. My tank had been cloudy for two weeks, even with twice weekly water changes. My cloudiness looked like a bactieria bloom (white cloudy). But when I would do water changes the water in my white bucket was green (algea based coudiness). The live plants if you don't have any allready, might out compete the algea (if algea is the problem) for what it feeds on. If nothing else, live plants just look good IMO. Good luck, I hope it clears up soon.