so, Now my water is cloudy.. WHY? pls help

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i bought some anacharis (4 bundles).. will have to really clean them to get all the snails/etc off them , and will intoduce them into my tank when ready...

as for over feeding... i dont think i am.. i feed 2xs a day and nothing even hits the ground (i use hikari gold sinking).. they gobble it up extremely fast... but maybe thats over feeding?

i have the lights off all day now and will cover up the window (only place i can keep the tank.. however there is a deck abovet he window so its not direct sunlight, but will cover it up nonetheless)

chrism - yes it is very frustrating, and i really appreciate all your advice.. hopefully this clears up in the near future.. working on 2+weeks now of this cloudy uck
 
Well, I've told you how much I'm feeding in my tank, how often, and to how many fish. You're feeding significantly fewer fish, twice as often. So, all we need to know now is HOW MUCH you're feeding in your tank to know if your over feeding. I personally find it VERY HARD to feed just 3/4 tsp of NLS and stop there--just doesn't seem like enough. Maybe your're different, I don't know. But if you're feeding 3/4 tsp or more, twice a day, to 5-10 fish.....
 
I have 10 fish in there .. and feed them a couple pinches of food... honestly, it doesnt feel like i even feed them enough. but am prob over feeding since it seems extremely easy to over feed, i do however, feed sinking pellets and none hit the ground.. but my fish are messy eaters,

the past 3 days ive only feed them 1 time and keep the lights off completely, hopefully this works somewhat, i also picked up 4 bunches of anacharis (as advised by chrisM) i am pre soaking in an alum filled bucket for 2/3 days to get rid of snails/eggs, hopefully that is an add too

fingers crossed!
 
I'd try measuring out food with a 1/2 or 1/4 teaspoon and get an idea of how much you fed those 10 fish before the algae bloom, and how much you're feeding now. An idea expressed in "roughly x teaspoons per feeding, x feedings per day". Everybody just does it by "feel", but that "feel" is usually developed over time, through experience, that I don't have. An algae bloom in an established tank with adequate filtration (assuming that's what you have and I think you do), no plants so you haven't been adding any fertilizers to your water, that's can only be an excess of nutrients in the water. Only place those nutrients could come from is the amount you're feeding.

If you've cut down feeding, left the lights off, and haven't had A LOT of direct sunlight coming in from a window, then you are starving algae as we speak. BUT, it could still take days/weeks for that algae colony to die off and the water to clear.

What's ammonia, nitrite, nitrate readings say today? Have any of these gone up/down since your last water change? When did you do your last water change?
 
Thanks rajon

Today the tests look the same

Nitrite 0
Ammo 0/.25
Nitrates 20ish ppm

The ammo was 0 last wc , since it went up a touch..


I haven't done a vacuum/wc in about a week

I cut down feeding to once a day while I try to solve this
 
Is the water looking any better?
 
And how long has the water been green now?
 
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