Cloudy 75g

[DaveFish]

My 75g community tank is getting a bit cloudy, it has only had fish in it for 1.5weeks, I may be overreacting. Did a 25% wc today and tested water 2 hours after. PH 7.8, ammonia 0, nitrites 0, nitrates less than 5. It's a green sort of cloudiness, looks like algae somewhat.
Any ideas of what it could be?
Thanks

 

[fish wrangler]

Green water algae bloom. UV sterilizer and black out method are 2 common remedies

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[DaveFish]

Could I just feed less and give it less light to see if it sorts out, or will that not work and should I nip it in the butt before it gets out of hand? Doesn't smell at all atm.

 

[fish wrangler]

http://www.aquahobby.com/articles/e_freshwater_algae.php tips to beating green water (GW)

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[DaveFish]

Thanks man, hard to find good well written articles like that.

 

[Mebbid]

How did you cycle the tank? It's odd for a tank with fish in it to not have nitrates.

 

[DaveFish]

Originally used the bacteria in a bottle colony(as instructed by my chain lfs), but then used some media from a very established tank. Nitrates were slightly lighter than 5ppm from my master test kit.

 

[Mebbid]

Originally used the bacteria in a bottle colony(as instructed by my chain lfs), but then used some media from a very established tank. Nitrates were slightly lighter than 5ppm from my master test kit.

How many fish are in the tank?

 

[DaveFish]

5 tetra, 3 baby lyretail electric blue ram, 3 baby pleco(clown and 2 bn)

 

[DaveFish]

Last week 2 days after I stocked it nitrates were around 20 and there was some ammonia