Cloudy water but everything test fine

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This sucks..I just got my 125g up and running not too long ago. I did a fishless cycle and it took about three weeks and I waited until everything was at 0 before adding my fish. I added them about a week and a half ago and everything has been perfect up until today. I came home and the water was cloudy so I tested everything:

Ammonia 0ppm
Nitrite 0ppm
PH 8.2
KH- 125ppm

I did a 15% water change anyway to be safe. I have two Marineland Penguin 350's A Fluval 405 and a Fluval FX5 filtering the tank with plenty of Bio Media in there. I wouldn't be worried except that my Violet Goby is at the top trying to breathe air :( I don't know what the hell is going on.
 
how many water changes have you done since the tank finished cycling? what are your nitrates?
 
I don't have a Nitrate test kit because none of the LFS have them in stock :screwy: But I did a 30% about a week ago and today did a 15% I plan on doing another 15% tomorrow. The water out of the tap here is about 90 degrees so I have to let it sit an cool for about a day before I do a water change :(
 
im just doing my first fishless cycle now on a new 125g, so i cant speak from experience just yet. but from what ive read 30% is not gonna be nearly enough of a water change after a fishless cycle. i will be doing a min of 50% daily till my nitrates are under 15ppm. you should do more and bigger water changes and test those nitrates. i bet they are thru the roof. it takes a lil while for the tank to become stable even after its initially cycled. in the begining its also normal to get a little white cloud for 24 hours or so after a water change.
 
Ok so I did a 50% water change. I'm going to go after work tomorrow and try and find a Nitrate kit if I can't find one I'll have to buy the whole Master test kit just to get it :irked: And I am planning on doing another 50% water change tomorrow. With all this work I don't know if I'm ever going to get to relax and just enjoy my fish :grinno:
 
I would say the tank is still cycling, as long as your levels stay at 0 you should be fine, just keep an eye on it.
 
The problem with that violet goby might be because it is a brackish water fish. Please visit the brackish section for more info on how to keep that fish.----------And for your tank after you completed the fishless cycle did you keep adding the ammonia until the day before you got your fish. The correct way to do a fishless cycle is to add enough ammonia to your tank on a daily basis to raise the ammonia reading up to 4-5ppm. And when the test readings show that your Bio-bacteria have eaten the ammonia and processed it to nitrite and then nitrate in a 12-18 hour span of time. Then you have a cycled tank. But you must still add that daily dose ammonia everyday to keep it alive. You can do this with the ammonia liquid or with fish. And etheir way you choose you then need to do a very large water change, most say 75-90% the day before you get the stock fish to remove the high level of nitrates in the water.------------------------------------I would wait a day and test again and you will probably see some ammonia or nitrite.
 
hybridtheoryd16;2231707; said:
The problem with that violet goby might be because it is a brackish water fish. Please visit the brackish section for more info on how to keep that fish.----------And for your tank after you completed the fishless cycle did you keep adding the ammonia until the day before you got your fish. The correct way to do a fishless cycle is to add enough ammonia to your tank on a daily basis to raise the ammonia reading up to 4-5ppm. And when the test readings show that your Bio-bacteria have eaten the ammonia and processed it to nitrite and then nitrate in a 12-18 hour span of time. Then you have a cycled tank. But you must still add that daily dose ammonia everyday to keep it alive. You can do this with the ammonia liquid or with fish. And etheir way you choose you then need to do a very large water change, most say 75-90% the day before you get the stock fish to remove the high level of nitrates in the water.------------------------------------I would wait a day and test again and you will probably see some ammonia or nitrite.
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My tank is a brackish setup... All my fish are brackish. I've had them in a 55gallon setup for quite a while now I just gave them a new home. I also added ammonia during the entire cycle so that wasn't the problem. I guess what I did wrong here was not doing a large enough water change before adding my fish. I am about to do another 50% change and hopefully I can find a nitrate test kit in stock by tonight. Thanks for all the help :)
 
Sorry I should have paid more attention. It is just so usual for people to put the goby's in a fresh tank. And i like my goby's. I usually find that my tanks stayed a little cloudy for awhile even thou they tested good. i think there is something that gets built up in the tank over time that clears the water that we do not test for. IDK but it seems like it.
 
Picked up a API Nitrate test kit today and tested my water. I'm at about 20ppm of Nitrate. Gonna do another water change and hopefully everything will be good. Ammonia and Nitrite still at 0 but my water is still cloudy :( Fish seem to be doing great though they have a health appetite and are not breathing heavily. I'm really confused here lol.
 
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