water is cloudy white

[wannabefishguru]

ok, i need a few answers about my tank, its a 55 gallon with a fancy goldfish and a dojo loach and pleco. i am still cycling and i know of doing water changes to help keep ammonia and nitrate down and waiting for nitrates to show to finish the cycle, but how do you get rid of this bacterial bloom, its been like that for 2 weeks now. will it dissapate on its own, with water changes, or when i add new fish as soon as the cycle is done? :help:

and yes i know goldfish are cold water but for now he is just here temporarely until i can give him away to my lfs, just waiting for the cycle to complete and money to come in then im going to do an angelfish tank. i know fish cycling is cruel but i had to do it, i was transfering tanks over. and didn't have other means of housing them excefer a 5 gallon bucket that just wasn't cutting it.

 

[wannabefishguru]

maybe i don't need an answer, maybe research paid off

 

[Kasakato]

Just leave it. In most cases the colour will go away by it self.

 

[zkt]

Whats the results of your research ?

 

[wannabefishguru]

still working on that but it does seem to be dissipating, time well only tell.

 

[Blueiz]

What you have is a bacteria bloom that will dissapear in a few days to a couple of weeks. The water can get so cloudy till you can't see into it.

 

[wannabefishguru]

yup, water changes did the trick

 

[biged24]

thats the s**ts

I like the fancy goldfish because it is a fish that will make sure that food doesn't sit around and create more amonia. You could be over medicating your tank. When using ph balance chemicals use the bottles ph up and ph down because Ive had problems with chemicals that say ph high and low, they suck. It cost money but I change my water about every 2 days until it clears up maintaining the ph(most important) and adding some bacteria wich helps with your amonia. With it always clowdy your fish will die. I would definatly use a betta fish while cycling but it will probably attack Your goldfish.