My water in my 55g is very cloudy, i found a dead fish so i did a big water change and no change. All my test come out fine. I don't know what to do? I even tried the clear water stuff. I know I don't over feed. So what could it be? Any help would be great.
Cloudy Water
- Thread starter AYard
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could be a bacterial bloom
When mine was extremely cloudy i had to do a 50% water change every day for about 4 days
When mine was extremely cloudy i had to do a 50% water change every day for about 4 days
could be a bacterial bloom like tatton said or the on set of green water i had cloudy water for months then green water a uv sterlizer clears it up but wont for a bacterial bloom is the tank ebstablished
What does the cloudyness look like? Does it look "milky, smokey" cloudy? If so I would say you're having a bacterial bloom. Really ensure you're not feeding any food that is being left uneaten. You could even go so far as skipping some feedings to ensure decomposing food isn't part of the issue. Personally I wouldn't reccomend large water changes. You could very well end up depleting the nitrifying bacteria that is trying to populate and stabilize in your aquarium. Over arelatively short time (4-6 weeks) your water should clear itself using something called competative exclusion.....only so much food available for the bacteria so the excess will just die off.