All water readings are in normal range.( This has been a problem for about a month now) Have done water changes, did a 50% change about 2 hours ago, (and water already starting to get cloudy). No signs of illness or stress with fish. Haven't lost any fish. Not a pump or filter problem. Overcrowding not the issue. I am well understocked. The only thing I can tell you is that my fish have eaten my plants. I have 1 male swordtail, 2 female swordtails, 3 blackskirts tetra's, 4 neon tetra's, 4 zebra danios, 2 cory cats, and 1 bottom feeder, all in a 40 gallon. Why is the water cloudy and staying cloudy????
2007-10-07 05:21:34 · 4 answers · asked by carmeliasue 6 in Pets ➔ Fish
Yes, carbon filters, and it is the normal tank set-up, in other words, not underground.
2007-10-07 06:02:35 · update #1
After a waterchange it's absolutely normal that your water is cloudy, because of all the debris that get stirred up beneath your gravel
That should clear up in less then 24 hours
Hope that helps
Good luck
EB
2007-10-07 05:27:10 · answer #1 · answered by Kribensis lover 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I have/had the same problem on a few of my tanks and I figured, fine particles that were caused by direct sunlight? I put pre filter sponge on filter and blocked the sunlight and added that clear water stuff once and it took care of the problem. I think I could have passed on the additive but was in a hurry. That solved my problem. Good Luck..><>:)~
2007-10-07 06:13:49 · answer #2 · answered by PaPa Norm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely, in case you have wiped sparkling something out on your filter out, that would desire to nicely reason a small bloom. Any exposure to solar would reason an algae bloom as nicely. i can declare in my a hundred and eighty that were up some months, and grew to become into cycled on the bio max from my different filters did this as nicely. It does take place from time to time. what form of filtration are you working? in case you have not misplaced any fish, then this is incredibly not an answer, yet a lifeless fish that's not placed and persevering with to decay will emit extra ammonia then your organic and organic filtration can look after. If the water parameters are nonetheless in norm, the final component i can think of of, is verify your faucet. heavily. Run a verify on your faucet for phosphates. this may well be loaded with phosphates and inflicting the bloom for algae. exterior of that, there is not too lots greater i can arise with. this is incredibly not inevitably actual Patrick. each and every of the brown algae in my 20 gallon, all had the white blooms preceeding it. It does not must be eco-friendly algae. i think of if the faucet is without notice intense in phosphates, that could be inflicting it. save on with UP: this is all solid as long as you discover what it incredibly is, yet I assure you, algea blooms could be white. It perchance mixed with something else, and that i've got saved fish as long or longer then Patrick. he's a sensible youngster, yet i'm not making this up. The brown algea in basic terms looked after a haze and that tank grew to become into cycled. perchance it tagged alongside with something else, yet it grew to become into white, i'm not colour blind.
2016-10-21 08:21:29 · answer #3 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What kind of filtration do you have? Are you running carbon?
2007-10-07 05:26:33 · answer #4 · answered by darktemplar70 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋