Cloudy new tank syndrome
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Also one of the fish is a juvenile oscar 3 inch who is ****ting for England, gonna have to feed him less, he's with some silver dollars
Until your tank is sufficiently cycled to equilibrium, you can change water every day, and it will still be cloudy.
Keeping fish is not an over night situation where everything is perfect because you want it to be. You are basically "trying" to create a bit a nature in a glass box, and encouraging a natural cycle in that unnatural situation takes time. The perfect population of bacteria for the situation, doesn't happen on your schedule, they work on their own growth, reproduction timeline.
And there will surely also be other situations that occur along the way that tax your patience, as the new tank evolves.
There may be also typically be an algae bloom a month or two down the road which turns your tank water turns green, or colors the tank walls are covered in brown slime, until you figure out what is the proper water change schedule for your tank, light period and its particular fish population, these happens are almost inevitable.
Keeping fish is not an over night situation where everything is perfect because you want it to be. You are basically "trying" to create a bit a nature in a glass box, and encouraging a natural cycle in that unnatural situation takes time. The perfect population of bacteria for the situation, doesn't happen on your schedule, they work on their own growth, reproduction timeline.
And there will surely also be other situations that occur along the way that tax your patience, as the new tank evolves.
There may be also typically be an algae bloom a month or two down the road which turns your tank water turns green, or colors the tank walls are covered in brown slime, until you figure out what is the proper water change schedule for your tank, light period and its particular fish population, these happens are almost inevitable.
I got one nitrates were ok ph was high, also I got uv steralizer to deal with any algae problems, but haven't got it on yeat as tank is still cycling
pH can not be "too high" or "too low" except for certain fish. Some fish like a high pH, some like a low pH. Your fish should be fine around the middle. But when people talk about water tests, pH is not what they mean in terms of cycling. AMmonia, nitrite, and nitrate, are the 3 chemicals you need to know. Read the link that I posted on last page, that will tell you what you need to know. Every aquarist needs to have that info.
Edit: here is the link https://modestfish.com/how-to-cycle-your-aquarium/
hello; Did you clean the new substrate? By that I mean did you put it into buckets and rinse and rinse to remove all the fine particles that can be in new substrate.
Some substrates are worse than others. What did you use?
