Very upset, cloudy

[Fishboy791]

Ok so my 75 gallon is so so cloudy and idk what to do, it has been for a week, I vacuumed, cleaned filter, changed 25% water, everything, I meen it isn't affectin my fish, in all truth my rams just now bred, but a cloudy tank is ugly and idk what to do I want a pretty tank, it's so cloudy idk what it is could it be too many fish in one tank I have alot of fish I it

 

[Ewokbuns]

I don't think its overcrowding. How long have you had the tank? If its new it could be a bacterial bloom. It will pass.

 

[Fishboy791]

Not new at all

 

[Mebbid]

Could you post a picture? Is it more of a green cloudiness or a white cloudiness?

 

[Fishboy791]

White cloudiness

 

[fishyjohn]

I sometimes get this when I do a water change,and fill tank a bit more than it was. I put it down to a bacterial bloom. It clears up after a few hours

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[Fishboy791]

It's been days

 

[Caliban07]

I sometimes get this when I do a water change,and fill tank a bit more than it was. I put it down to a bacterial bloom. It clears up after a few hours

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+1 tank maintenance causes this as you lose some beneficial bacteria. When there is new surface area available heterotrophic bacteria try to populate it. It will settle In a few days.

You don't normally notice it unless you do all areas of maintenance at the same time. Gravel vac. Filter rinse and large water change.

Rinsing media or failing to dechlorinate new water may kill bacteria and cause cloudiness.

 

[jwh0818]

How did you clean your filter?

 

[Fishboy791]

Took it out washed it out out it in

 

[jwh0818]

In tap water? If so that kills all your bacteria. What you wanna do is take old tank water and add it to a bucket and swish your filter in it. That preserves your bacteria

 

[cfosgate]

Also, what size is your tank?

How many and what types of fish are you keeping?