i understand, and i am being as patience as i can.. i havent done anything to the tank since i added my new filter, only a water change (35%) on saturday.. i will just do normal maintenance of WCs once every 3/4 days.. and wait it out... it just seems forever... but i will wait.. and wait! lol... by next weekend, it should be a little better (i assume ??)... i'm just unsure the reasoning for the cloudy water... all i know is after i added my pleco (5") to help remove brown algae it seemed to happen... i have since gotten rid of the pleco as he produced an extreme amount of waste. that defeated the purpose of cleaning the algae... but yeah. I greatly appreciate the assurance and help..
so, Now my water is cloudy.. WHY? pls help
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my 100gallon tank has been cycled for just over a month , came down this morning to white cloudy water , had this when i first set up the tank about 3 years ago, its a bacterial bloom and will eventually clear its self , i noticed it first time after getting brown algae which then started to go green , i have brown algae now which has just started to go green in a few spots, its just a case of waiting for it to clear on its own if its an bacterial bloom
How about no water changes. Seriously I know some people are overly meticulous in this aspect but if your filter does its job and parameters are staying in. Dont. Change it and see what happens.
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Your nitrates will climb to poisonous levels and your fish will suffer.
Worst advice ever!
depends, if they are testing their nitrates regularly it would be ok, as long as testing is done, if your not testing the water then this is terrible advice, I only did a water change once a month on my 135 until recently because all my fish were young, but I tested the water every 2 days to see the nitrate levels, as long as they stayed low all was good.
Their are other factors that are impacted by water changes. The first one that comes to mind is copper and fluoride. As you top water off these will be constantly added to the water, and build up to dangerous levels. How often you have to do water changes is based on the amount that comes out of your tap, but doing no water changes can lead to these reaching dangerous levels over a long period of time. I imagine there exist even more things that would build up, but you'd need someone more informed to input. Generally speaking, these things will build up slowly based on how much evaporation takes place.
Get real. He has a test kit. To cycle a tank the nitrates have to rise thats the completion event. Ammonia and co2 start it by feeding Nitrosomonas bacteria that in turn produce nitrites which are then are eaten by nitrobacter bacteria. Which then produce nitrate which is filtered, taken by plants or removed by water changes. If you dump water at the first bloom you are never going to cycle.
You cant constantly change the water before it cycles. You're killing the cycle and adding more and more of whats in the water supply.
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So essentially all good parameters. Nitrate is ok up to 20. Just watch it and see what happens.
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