still cloudy why? help!!!!

RobP

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ive had this new setup for now over 2 months i took about ten gallons out of my set up tank and the filter off of it and put on my new 75 gal after about a week it got cloudy i just let it go as long as the water was safe for the fish the changed the water as needed since then it has gotten a little better but not clear it still has and sort of haze to it i can see all the way thru front to back but not side to side. someone please help im doin a water change right now. i will post the stats on the water after im done they have allways stayed good.
 
PH 7.4
amonia 0ppm
nitrite 0ppm
kh 1
gh 6
temp 79.7
nitrate dont have the test for that i know it is important im working on getting it
test kit made by AP INC.
water gets changed once to twice a week now depending on how cloudy it is.
 
:sad anyone??????? help? :sad
 
i wld say it an algea bloom,
it's hazy and may look like little tiny pits floating all around in it.. if it were me i wld not touch a thing and just let it cycle, my opinion is when you change the water you are washing out the ammonia that builds the nitrites that make the nitrates that eat the ammonia. so just let it be,, and let it fully cycle, if you have patience it will clear up on it's own
knowy
 
take some cheese cloth and rubberband it around the filter intake tube. and with in a few hours it should be nice and clear
 
Fill a clear glass with tank water and hold it up in front of a piece of white paper. If it's greenish, you have an algae bloom. If it's white, you have a bloom of the normal flora microorganisms that inhabit our tanks. The solutions are different, so if you can let us know which it is, we can give you specific advice.

HTH,
Jim
 
very little white haze but that is after the water change i did about 2 hours ago. cheese cloth? where to find this?
 
What you have bacteria bloom, which is a normal during the cycling process of a tank.

Rohn
 
i thought that was done with about a month ago when it started to clear up. then it never did fully get clear. so if this is still my bacteria bloom how much longer should it last? the water peramiters have stayed perfect since the first one i had except for the cloudiness. thanx to all for helping
 
Blooms like you are describing are not blooms in the nitrifying bacteria that we refer to as our biofilter. Rather, they are the myriad normal flora microorganisms that live in our tanks. These organism live in balance normally, one population feeding upon (and controlling) another. Sometimes, often for reasons we can't discern, the populations become unbalanced and you get a bloom. It may be that you're feeding too much, it may be that the fish have grown and your maintenance procedures haven't increased to match... it can be a number of things. Usually, almost always, it will go away in a week or two, occasionally longer, with no intervention. Using a treatment like a water clarifier generally doesn't help (maybe for a day, but the bloom comes back). Similarly, water changes may help, but often the cloudiness comes back in a day or two.

If you can't bear waiting, it sometimes helps to get a couple quarts from a known healthy tank. You might be able to import enough microorganisms to reestablish a balance.

Although a bit unsightly, these blooms usually don't harm anything, so as long as ammonia and nitrite are zero, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

HTH,
Jim
 
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