Cloudy water excuses. I love 'em!

[knifegill]

Lately I've seen a lot of pictures of underfiltered tanks where the poster says something to justify the bacterial bloom that hangs obviously in the water. The three I see the most are:

I am about to change my water
I just changed my water
Added sand (what, last year?)

Any more cloudy water excuses you have seen around?

 

[Kitiara]

I have seen people blame their iPhone for the 'poor quality' pic..... funny how some things are clear though....

 

[knifegill]

iPhone, good one!

 

[Jonnyakawombell]

ive heard people say that it a new food

 

[Jonnyakawombell]

saying that tetra domina makes my tank cloudy

 

[knifegill]

Good one! I haven't heard it in awhile.

Well, it is true that overfeeding and/or feeding low-quality junk foods like tetra and wardley are likely to make a tank cloudy. But a good fishkeeper has figured that out and so even this excuse has little basis under scrutiny. Still one that gets used, though.

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

other things can make a tank cloudy. my mother inlaws 20g is usually cloudy and no clue why.

 

[AQUAMONSTER]

I've used a poor quality food but never had cloudy water since the day i started fish keeping about 8 years ago

 

[jdm_da510]

i blame the homeless guy that i hired to clean my tank for a dollar

 

[bbortko]

If I ever have cloudy water I plan on blaming global warming