This may sound weird but... why is my tank CLEAR!?

[~A betta named Mowgli~]

Eww, I just siphoned a gallon or so to remove detritis, and I removed a fish tail. Not a live fish's tail... see, my cory died a few weeks ago and it left its tail... I had been looking all over for that thing!

 

[johno27]

It is not entirely impossible that that all of the organic matter (food) was used up by the blooming algae/bacteria causing a massive die off of said pollutant by starvation

It would all depend on exactly what was in the cloudy water

If it was photosynthic algae my theory is blown

 

[CHOMPERS]

Either one of two things happened:
1. Fish tank elves came in the middle of the night and cleaned the tank...
or
2. One of the betta's got tired of waiting for you to clean it and cleaned the tank itself (probably one of the female betta's).



That or the algae died from shutting off the lights and the bacteria did the rest.



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[jungledriver]

You probably had an alea bloom. After it cleared up, was there a powdery sediment on the bottom? At any rate if it was an algea bloom you handled it prefectly. Cut way back on feeding, black out the tank and ride it out.

 

[AquataHolic420]

Did all the water drain out?

haha Agreed.

 

[KenyanSandBoa]

Either one of two things happened:
1. Fish tank elves came in the middle of the night and cleaned the tank...
or
2. One of the betta's got tired of waiting for you to clean it and cleaned the tank itself (probably one of the female betta's).



That or the algae died from shutting off the lights and the bacteria did the rest.



.

I bet it was those damn elves...you better start locking your doors...they're probably crazy glue sniffers.