Cloudy water?

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Aquadi

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Ok I need help trying to figure out why I could be having cloudy water. It started after I hooked up a new eheim 2026 pro II filter a few weeks ago. I am wondering if maybe I did not clean the media as well as I should have? though I thought I had done a very thorough job!

It's not related to ammonia or nitrites as they are 0 and my nitrates are about 7. Same as the tank has always been since it finished the cycle.

is there another reason for cloudy water that I am missing? The fish do not seem affected by it in the least. They all are eating well and quite active.
 
Is the 2026 the only filter on the tank? What size tank and what is the current stock residing in the tank?
 
Best guess, bacterial bloom..white cloudy water???
Did you use all new media in the canister.
Did you run both, old and new for any period of time.
 
The tank also has an older emp 400 thats been on the tank for almost 6 months now. The tank is a 75gallon with 4 x 3" fancy (not common) plecos (they'll max out at 5" when they mature) and 10 danios. Not a really stocked tank.

The media in the canister is all new yes, put in straight out of the packaging, once I had rinsed it off as indicated by the directions. The emp 400 has 4 AC sponges in it as added mechanical filtration now, but prior to that it it just had the biowheels and the regular filtration bags they come with.

Like I said, the cloudiness did not start until I put the canister on there. Could it be producing bacterial bloom now that the bacteria have possibly found a better place to reproduce? Also, Could dying frogbit attribute to this because that's also something I'm fighting with now as well.

All my water parameters check out good as far as the ammonia/nitrite readings are concerned, as I stated in my OP so I'm clueless :(
 
Just realized, I know driftwood leeches out tannins and I'd planned on that but can it also be a cause for cloudy water?
 
Its a bacteria bloom from the new filter establishing its beneficial bacteria....Let it go for a couple days, it will clear up
 
stingraybob;2942642; said:
Its a bacteria bloom from the new filter establishing its beneficial bacteria....Let it go for a couple days, it will clear up
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Yeah same thing happens to me when I use brand new canister media/filters.
 
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