Please Help! Foggy Water

[pistonville]

Please Help!

I recently setup a brand new 125 gallon freshwater tank. I installed a Fluval FX6 canister filter and put in 12 Zebra Fish to get the tank cycling. The water was crystal clear for a week. After testing my water I added 3 fish (1 Oscar, 1 Jack Dempsey, 1 Needlenose Gar). My tank remained crystal clear but my pH was too high. The fish store recommended that I add Discuss Buffer and add peat granules to my filter, which I did. Within a couple days, my water was no longer crystal clear. My water is now a little foggy, and getting worse each day. I rinsed the peat granules before I added them, but could they be causing my water to get foggy? It wasn't foggy before I added them to my filter? The only other thing I can think of is that my fish are not eating very well and the food I'm putting in the tank is just settling on the bottom. The food that is settling on the bottom is regular Omega Freshwater Flakes, New Era Cichlid Pellets and New Life Spectrum Medium Fish Food.

Why is my water cloudy? How can I fix it?

Please Help!

Thanks,

Joffrey

 

[poppalina]

Test your water, it sounds like your tank was not fully cycled. You need enough bb to handle your new tank mates with the increase in bio load on the tank.

 

[duanes]

Sounds like a bacterial bloom, and although it probably benign, not the beneficial kind.
Unless you have used already established filter media from another cycled tank, 1 week is not enough time to cycle a tank, large, or small.
A truly cycled tank has a large population of ammonia and nitrite consuming bacteria in the substrate and filter media, this doesn't happen in a week, but takes more like 6 -8 weeks to grow to a sustainable level.
And why do you think pH is too high?
Some fish do prefer low pH, but cichlids like jack dempseys are not one of them.
I have snorkeled with them in their natural habitat, where pH can be in the high 8 range. Oscars prefer more like 7, and I've seen Gar in waters of the mid 8 range.

 

[Ihsnshaik]

Don't try to chase your issue right now. Just do a big water change