Cloudy Water Help needed.

[screaminleeman]

Holy Granola, WTF happened? Yesterday my water was crispy and clear. Today I get home and it is so cloudy that "white" may now be a closer term to describe the murk.

I immediately did a set of water tests. Amonia tested at 0 as did the nitrites. The nitrates were at around 20. Any idea what might have caused this. In addition there almost seems like "soapy bubbles" forming in the water now.

One major ****-up that I did do yesterday was that I found an ounce of California blackworms in my refrigerator and fed them to my fish last night. The only problem with that is I have 19 tanks and fed numerous tanks these worms and none of the other tanks fed these worms changed color overnight.

Disgusting, but see below:

 

[Gahandi]

wow, this has happened to me before as well, except i fed saltwater yabbies. Do a decent water change and gravel vac, hopefully it'll clear up after a day. Shat myself when it first happened to me, and the water went white after the water change but cleared up in a few hours, no idea what causes it, unless its decomposing bits of creature.

 

[boldtogether]

Could be a bacteria bloom? Weird.

Big water change(50-75%).

 

[erk419]

That's weird I would say its an ammonia spike but since you said it reads 0 can't be that. Do you have any little kids or anything that might have stuck something in there? I would just do big water changes everyday until it clears up.

 

[screaminleeman]

I completed a 60% W/C but the water is still horrendous shade of white. I live next door to my brother who has three children. I doubt they would have dumped anything in there. Everyone else in the house is over 80!

Nothing died in the tank!

 

[Ocean Railroader]

I've been having this go on with my 75 gallon Goldfish tank for the last few weeks and I've tried sucking out the muck at the bottom of the gravel filiter and it is still murky like this. I wounder is this a sign that my fish hbave out grown my fish tank.

 

[dgarrett]

I had this happen on a 55 gallon. I finally stripped and cleaned the Fluval Filter real well and that took care of it. Water changes did'nt help. It did'nt seem to harm the fish ....dgarrett

 

[erk419]

I had this happen on a 55 gallon. I finally stripped and cleaned the Fluval Filter real well and that took care of it. Water changes did'nt help. It did'nt seem to harm the fish ....dgarrett

Hmmm,never thought about that. Screaminleeman what kind of filter are you running on that tank and when was the last time it was cleaned. Could be something going on in there, if you haven't cleaned it for awhile might try that and see if that helps. All the water changes in the world won't help if the problem is in the filter.

 

[mshill90]

I've got this issue with my 125-- have done numerous water changes, have added extra filters, have taken out gravel..

To no avail.. now tomorrow I plan on vaccuuming ALL the gravel out, and tearing apart all of the filters and doing a large water change.

I've even laid off feeding for a week!

Good luck man.

 

[screaminleeman]

Hmmm,never thought about that. Screaminleeman what kind of filter are you running on that tank and when was the last time it was cleaned. Could be something going on in there, if you haven't cleaned it for awhile might try that and see if that helps. All the water changes in the world won't help if the problem is in the filter.

The tank is a standard 90 gallon and is running 1 topfin 60 HOB filter, 1 AC-110 HOB filter and two #4 or #5 hagen sponge filters.

I have yet to ever touch the ac-110 filter or the hagen sponge filters, and this tank I think has been running close to a year and a half. The topfin 60 filters have been replaced several times, the last being three to four months ago.

More bad news today, but may possibly shed some light on the base cause. I had a second tank (a 20 gallon long) that just did the exact same thing that the 90 did the day before.

This is the tank that received the third largest quantity of the one week old California blackworms that I found in my refrigerator two days ago. I thought if I rinsed them good they would be OK. Last time I try to feed blackworms lost in the refrigerator!