Cloudy water in my 29g

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Greg31

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Tons of topics on this I know, but nothing is really helping. The water is a brownish color. (probably algae)

This tank has been set up for over 3 months, and it was set up using filter media from another tank. It is filted by a 55g grade sponge filter which gets cleaned at every water change (filthy due to the water) and an ac70 (2 sponges, ceramic cylinders and fluval clearmax). I actually just took out carbon for the clearmax because carbon was making no difference. I also have a light that is on about 7 hours a day.

The only fish in the entire tank is a 5 or so inch flowerhorn who gets fed 1-3 times a day.
Substrate is regular natural gravel you would find outside (from petco). I do a 5 or so gallon water change one time a week (with which I use water conditioner).

I have seen the threads about how to clear my water up. The only options I have yet to try is purigen (cant find locally and haven't ordered yet) and a UV filter (which I do not feel like spending the money on.

Quite frankly I am stumped. I do water changes, don't over feed, plenty of filtration and I have tried almost everything in terms of filter media.
 
no one has any ideas?
 
Do you have alot of visble algae ? The only thing I can think of is using a light and having alot of natural light. Try shutting the light off for a couple of days and see if it clears up. you could also try a larger water change. Your filter might not be doing such a great job either.
 
I figured an ac 70 + the sponge filter should be plenty. The tank gets 0 natural sunlight. The algae used to somewhat lightly coat the glass, but I limited the light being on by a couple hours and that problem went away.

Its basically just looks like algae in the water.
 
Been doing 50% wc per week, light 1 hr per day. Water still get horribly cloudy...
 
Cloudy water can come from a lot of things. I would suggest to cut down to one larger feeding rather then the 3 you usually do.. Do about a 5-10% water change a day.. and you might want to try picking up some cloudy water control formula from where ever you get your chemical. It could be that your fish is peeing too much, lol. But yeah, 10% a day, and try gravel vaccing all the poop out of the gravel.
 
There is no use in using a sponge filter if you clean it every time you do a WC, leave the sponge alone, do a 10 gallon WC every other day, if you are gonna keep that beast in that tank
 
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