Friday, September 23, 2011

How do I get rid of Cloudy water. It is a fresh water aquarium.?

I changed too many sections of my two filters, and now have cloudy water. I did two water changes, but it is no better, yet. I tried Accu-Clear, also. To-day, I am going to try another water change.How do I get rid of Cloudy water. It is a fresh water aquarium.?STOP, don't go the chemical route. Don't touch the filters for 3 weeks, change 50% of the water twice a week. Don't feed for 1 week then feed a minimum of excellent quality food. If you have other aquariums switch half of the filters or mix the filter media and substrate. Changing half the water from the new aquarium and adding half from the established helps as well. You have to build the biological bacteria up again. The ceramic rings or any type of biological media helps. Place these if the filter as well as put several in a woman's nylon and tie this to the outflow of the filter. All of these things will help w/ the colonization of bacteria. After 5 -6 weeks bring the aquarium back to normal though don't change more than 1/3rd of the gravel or filter media at any time.How do I get rid of Cloudy water. It is a fresh water aquarium.?it usually goes away on it's own after a few daysHow do I get rid of Cloudy water. It is a fresh water aquarium.?Your doing more harm that good changing water, its a bacteria bloom because you have changed your filter. When you change your charcoal filter you should rinse the new one in old aquarium water so the bacteria is transferred.



Also i assume there is a sponge, ceremic balls etc in your filter for bacteria to be stored?How do I get rid of Cloudy water. It is a fresh water aquarium.?thats normal. after i change the water in my tank and cleaned my filter the water usually is cloudy afterwards but once i started the filter on it clears out eventually. mine would be crystal clear in 1-2 days. u just wait.How do I get rid of Cloudy water. It is a fresh water aquarium.?This sounds like a normal bacterial bloom this will clear in time, however do not mess with the water as you will be stressing the fish out.How do I get rid of Cloudy water. It is a fresh water aquarium.?is the tank cycling if so its just a bacteria Bloom stay away from chemicals and stop doing water changes that will make it worseHow do I get rid of Cloudy water. It is a fresh water aquarium.?Before changing the water or not changing the water like people here are guessing, you should be testing the water for ammonia and nitrite to see if you have cause an issue with your cycle.



If you do test nitrites or ammonia, then you most certainly should do water changes to keep things in check while the system re-establishes itself. If these things test good, then don't worry, like the others said just relax and let it clear up on its own, it will and just keep up normal water changes.



Never use chemicals like clarifiers in your water, all it does is complicate things by adding junk to your tank. There is almost always a way to deal with problems at the source and bottled junk is almost never advisable.



You have two filters, so in the future you should take advantage of this and stagger filter maintenance so that only one is getting cleaned at a time.



Good luck
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