Tank has become very cloudy!!

[Amandaandfletcher]

Ver the past few days my tank went from pretty to cloudy!! What do I do?? We haven't changed anything

 

[ccCapt]

What color? Cloudy white can be either a bacterial bloom or a calcium/alk overdose. Green can be a algae bloom.

 

[Breezyrae]

Do you have fish in there? Cuz my tank gets cloudy from them messing around in the sand. My jawfish is constantly digging, so there is always sand particles flying around my tank. ( which makes it look a little cloudy)

 

[Amandaandfletcher]

What color? Cloudy white can be either a bacterial bloom or a calcium/alk overdose. Green can be a algae bloom.

It's white cloudy. Is it a bad thing?? And what should I do? My tank has been up and running for about 6 months now with no problems. All of my leaves have been perfect. Is there anything new I can test for?

 

[Amandaandfletcher]

Do you have fish in there? Cuz my tank gets cloudy from them messing around in the sand. My jawfish is constantly digging, so there is always sand particles flying around my tank. ( which makes it look a little cloudy)

I have two triggers a lion fish and a fox face.

 

[ccCapt]

It's white cloudy. Is it a bad thing?? And what should I do? My tank has been up and running for about 6 months now with no problems. All of my leaves have been perfect. Is there anything new I can test for?

What, exactly, are your water parameters, especially nitrate and ammonia.
A bacterial bloom is usually caused by excessive nutrients in the water column and the bacteria population explodes because there is so much food for them.
How often do you do water changes and what kind of water (RO/DI, tap, well, etc) do you use?

 

[Amandaandfletcher]

What, exactly, are your water parameters, especially nitrate and ammonia.
A bacterial bloom is usually caused by excessive nutrients in the water column and the bacteria population explodes because there is so much food for them.
How often do you do water changes and what kind of water (RO/DI, tap, well, etc) do you use?

Ph between 8.0 8.2, ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 0. I use tap I mix my water about two day in advance do a water change about ever 4 to 6 weeks

 

[Amandaandfletcher]

This is a pic of the tank can't really tell that it's cloudy in the pic

 

[Sniperhank]

Using tap water would probably be the source of your problem. You can get a RO/DI unit for 100 bucks easily. And looking at your tank and what is swimming around in it...that is an investment I would just not put into tap water to chance.

 

[Amandaandfletcher]

Using tap water would probably be the source of your problem. You can get a RO/DI unit for 100 bucks easily. And looking at your tank and what is swimming around in it...that is an investment I would just not put into tap water to chance.

I'm pretty new to all this what is a RO/DI unit?

 

[Sniperhank]

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An example of one. You can get ones that are "specially made" for salt water tanks...It cost me more money and there is 0 difference that I have noticed. But it was infront of me and I didn't have to wait for it to arrive via mail.