I have a 125g brakish tank. I have had cloudy water in this thing for about two weeks now. I initially chocked it up to the tank cycling since i had upgraded the filter to a FX5 i got off craigslist. I did clean out the filter very well with just very hot water. all of the media is new except for about half of the ceramic rings. all of the rocks inside the tank and the driftwood were not touched. like i said, i figured that it was just the tank cycling a bit due to the new filter but two weeks later the cloudyness has not gotten any better. my ammonia has been a .25 for the last 4 days. i add stress zyme to all changed water when the water gets changed. all the fish are doing fine all eating and very active. I upgraded the filter system in a 20g feeder tank with about two dozen shiners in it and it cycled in about a week and the water now is crystal clear. Im not real sure whats going on. Any help would be very much appreciated!
Cloudy water problems
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I'd take everything out wash it of really well. Do a big water change and add a second filter or power head and let it run. If that doesn't work go to a Petco or lfs and get water clarifier
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I did tank everything out the week before i changed filters to clean all the algae off of them. The new filter has 3x the flow as the old one did. The fx5 replaced a cascade 1500. I have tried two different water qualifiers and it didnt really help. if you look at up towards the lights you can see it almost looks like someone put milk in the water.
Hmmm. I'm not sure what it could be. Is it possible for the fx5 to be allowing air inside it some how? I never had a canister filter but I know when my sump hoses weren't connected right and air went in the line it would blew out bubbles and make it look clouded
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i know i am having that air problem with my other canister. i can go in and shake it and it spits out all kinds of bubbles. i could do this every few hours and it never fails to spit out tons of bubbles. The FX5 does not seem to be intaking air. I know what you mean though.
I'd double check everything. Maybe reclean all the media and filter.
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Never clean Beneficial bacteria away if you have cloudy water problems, as-well as ammonia you will make it alot worse
the problem is because your tank isn't cycled, and went into a bacterial bloom when you switched the filters. A fx5 is a great filter but it is useless until the beneficial bacteria gets established.
This can happen if you kill off or remove the beneficial bacteria in the tank, which is the reason why you have ammonia. I would try to get some used filter material from your friends or your local LFS with some nice sludgy brown gunk in it fresh from a filter then you can implant it in your own filter to help with regrowing some bacteria that your tank needs.
Source- I've had this happen to me many times.
the problem is because your tank isn't cycled, and went into a bacterial bloom when you switched the filters. A fx5 is a great filter but it is useless until the beneficial bacteria gets established.
This can happen if you kill off or remove the beneficial bacteria in the tank, which is the reason why you have ammonia. I would try to get some used filter material from your friends or your local LFS with some nice sludgy brown gunk in it fresh from a filter then you can implant it in your own filter to help with regrowing some bacteria that your tank needs.
Source- I've had this happen to me many times.
The tank is cycled so it would be the new fx5 that needs to build up bb in that case. But I agree this could be your problem op.
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