Plants & Cloudy Water

[Kurt]

First off I have a 30Gal tank with 3 4 - 5 inch goldfish.

About 30 days ago my tank became cloudy virtually over night. I did the
extra water changes, filter change, and check the various CHEM levels of
the tank. This was over a 20 - 25 day period tring to clear up the tank but
it would not clear up until I removed the plants. Once I removed the
plants the tank cleared up within 24 hours. Can anyone shed light on
why removing plants cleared up my tank.


Thanks,

Kurt

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cloudy is usually biobugs looking for a home. something caused a die off in the
biomedia. when I forgot to plug in my heater I would get cloudy water too. then
plugged it in and in 6 hours the tank would clear. removing the plants may have
nothing to do with it clearing up. unless of course, there is fertilizer in the
plant pots. Ingrid

(Kurt) wrote:

>First off I have a 30Gal tank with 3 4 - 5 inch goldfish.
>
>About 30 days ago my tank became cloudy virtually over night. I did the
>extra water changes, filter change, and check the various CHEM levels of
>the tank. This was over a 20 - 25 day period tring to clear up the tank but
>it would not clear up until I removed the plants. Once I removed the
>plants the tank cleared up within 24 hours. Can anyone shed light on
>why removing plants cleared up my tank.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kurt



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[johnhuddleston]

Does one or more of your fish have white spots on its gills? If so the
cloudyness was probably milt (fish sperm) did you check the plants for eggs?
(they will be hard to find as the fish eat them as soon as they lay them -
check early in the morning) goldies like to spawn on plants so they probably
just stopped spawning when you removed them. It probably means you have
healthy, horny fish.


"Kurt" > wrote in message
om...
> First off I have a 30Gal tank with 3 4 - 5 inch goldfish.
>
> About 30 days ago my tank became cloudy virtually over night. I did the
> extra water changes, filter change, and check the various CHEM levels of
> the tank. This was over a 20 - 25 day period tring to clear up the tank
but
> it would not clear up until I removed the plants. Once I removed the
> plants the tank cleared up within 24 hours. Can anyone shed light on
> why removing plants cleared up my tank.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kurt