Another cloudy tank thread...

[Daven]

So my 75 gallon mbuna tank got cloudy yesterday and has been since, i cant figure out why. No ammonia, nitrite, and very low nitrate (less than 5 ppm) as i did a precautionary 50% water change yesterday as well as my normal one this weekend. For lighting i have two t8 48" bulbs on for 8 hours a day, but its been like that for a while now. So usually cloudy water is a bacterial bloom? But i have no nitrifying bacteria that would do it, so contamination of some sort?

Only thing different i can think of is i fed NLS Hex-shield medicated pellets to them for 3 days as a precautionary measure since i beleived the other tank here had a parasite outbreak. Last day that was fed was monday, normal NLS cichlid pellets tuesday, and nothing today. Think it would somehow cause a really hazy water condition after use?

 

[brennae]

Bacterial bloom? Are their plants (I know little about cichlids)?

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[ImACoolguy]

Bacterial bloom? Are their plants (I know little about cichlids)?

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Plants would never survive with Mbuna.

I'm thinking bacterial or diatom bloom.


Caleb

 

[Daven]

No plants. It could be diatom, but this is kind of random since I had gotten heavy diatoms for the first while and now have hair like dark green algae forming everywhere. Maybe I'll switch around the lighting schedule again and try a break in between as I did before. Still cloudy today


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