Cloudy Water and Snail Problem

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I've had my 30 gl. for about 4 months now. Just in the past week my tank has become fairly cloudy and I can't figure out what the problem is. I did about a 30% water change yesterday and installed a new filter earlier this morning. However, the water is cloudier now than when I did the water change yesterday. Perhaps the plants could be causing it? I've got a Hornwort that is growing like crazy, an onion as well, and a small thing of some sort of grass, and another plant with big leaves that has been dying that I cut the dead leaves off of (perhaps this could be the culprit? These plants have been in my tank for over a month now.

I also have a snail problem. What started out as 3 or 4 little snails has now turned into something of nearly 20 or more in a matter of weeks. What can I do about this?

Thanks for any help offered!
 
I have 1 pleco, two peppered corys, 1 guppy, 2 danios, 2 mollys, and 5 neons.

My filter is a Top Fin Bio 3 Filter. It has the filter and then on the other side after the water flows through the filter it runs through a "bacterial sponge". I've had the current sponge in there for several weeks now, the last one lasted a couple months and I then changed them. The new one I floated in the tank like it said to for several days to "soak up" bacteria before placing it in with the filter.
 
I don't know what kind he is. A friend gave him to me about 2 months ago. He's about 5 inches long now or so and a dark maroon & brownish color.
 
I just tested water quality and here are the stats, nothing really wrong here.

pH - 7.2
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 10
 
bkgodfrey said:
I just tested water quality and here are the stats, nothing really wrong here.

pH - 7.2
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 10
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it could be that your tank is simply maturing in the bacteria department or it could be an algae cloud. Place a piece of white paper behind the tank and post what the color is. If it's green, it's algae. If it's white, it's bacterial. Your tank needs to pass through this point in it's building so the best advice I can offer is patience. Changing the filter over again will only exacerbate things. If it's bacterial, the bacteria has exploded in population and now must decide where it will be in your tank to continue to work. If algae, there's too muchlight and your nutrients are off as far as ferts though it sounds bacterial since your levels are clear.
 
It looks like a light green color than anything. Perhaps I've been leaving the light on too long, about 10 hours a day, sometimes more? Is there anything else I can do other than shorten that time or do I simply do that and watch the levels?
 
You can cut back on the lighting. How many watts are over your tank? Really 5 or so hours is plenty... works for my tank and it's fully planted. I had an algae problem too, I cut back on the watts and it seemed to go away in a couple of weeks.
 
I've got 20 watts.
 
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