Cloudy water after water change

How long has the tank been setup? Sounds like a bacteria bloom in a tank
that hasn't fully cycled yet.

Ron

"Victor M. Martinez" wrote in message
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I've been meaning to post here about the cloudiness that sets on my large
tank after I make water changes and fertilize the plants. The small tank
doesn't get it, just the big one. Yesterday I changed about 30% of the
water and fertilized with Fluorish, Fluorish Iron, Fluorish Excel, plus I
added some Freshwater Trace. Like clockwork, the water started turning
cloudy about an hour after the water change. This morning it's cloudy, but
it should start clearing this afternoon. I also cleaned the filter
(Eheim), rinsing all the media in it.
One interesting aside is that everytime I make a water change, some of the
usually shy clown loaches come out and hang out all over the tank.

Anybody else get cloudiness after water changes?

Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

Ron Nelson wrote:
How long has the tank been setup? Sounds like a bacteria bloom in a tank
that hasn't fully cycled yet.

Nope, the tank has been cycled for months. All water parameters are perfect.

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Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv

linda mar wrote:
another potentially basic (meaning, stupid) question to ask, is that when
you wash your media, you're using either an aged water, old tank water or
de-chlor/de-chloramined water so you don't kill the bacteria colonies...

I guess I should've mentioned that I'm not an idiot. The biomedia was only
rinsed using tank water.


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Victor M. Martinez

http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv