Need help please cloudy water

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jizzman85

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Just set up my 150 gallon tank I used water from my to 40 breeders to fill most of the tank running a wet/dry filter with bio balls filter pads and a filter block I did all test from my master test kit and every comes out fine but my water just got cloudy again for the second time the first time I changed the water and it seems to happen every two days and I only have two small fish in the tank
 
Its a bacterial bloom. When you changed the water it had to start over. Just leave it and let it do it's thing.

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Bio balls aren't the best for fw as they aren't nearly porous as ceramic or sintered glass, add either of the above and it will clear. Keep testing tho




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Is the wet dry filter brand new/newly set up? Did you do anything to seed the media in the filter?
 
jizzman85 said:
Just set up my 150 gallon tank I used water from my to 40 breeders to fill most of the tank running a wet/dry filter with bio balls filter pads and a filter block I did all test from my master test kit and every comes out fine but my water just got cloudy again for the second time the first time I changed the water and it seems to happen every two days and I only have two small fish in the tank
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The cloudiness comes from bacteria colonization.........Change water twice a week for the first two weeks....
 
jizzman85 said:
How long does the bloom last and are my fish gonna be safe
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It all depends on both counts. 2 small fish in your tank should be ok. Just perform the water changes as mentioned above. IF you have some in-use media you can take from another filter and add it to the new filter, i.e. seed it, it will decrease the time needed.
 
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