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Post by plecoman on Jan 10, 2010 23:01:50 GMT -6
I've had cloudy water in one of my breeding tanks for about 3 weeks now. I've tried lots of water changes and it would clear up some, but be cloudy again the next morning. I tried algaefix for a short time with no results. I cut back on feeding with no results. I wasn't sure if this was an algae bloom or bacteria bloom or something else. The fish were healthy though. What was confusing was that my other breeding tank, which was the same size and has the same type fry and gets the same food, was crystal clear. So finally I bought a uv sterilizer yesterday and put it to use. When I got up this morning the water was a lot clearer. By tonight, the water was crystal clear. If anyone ever has this problem, I would highly recommend investing in a uv sterilizer. It was well worth the $40 that I spent on it. There is one other possibility that I was wondering if it could have caused this problem. I put some plants in this tank that I got from another individual. Do you think that the plants could have had some kind of junk on them that could have caused the cloudy water?
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Post by angel on Jan 11, 2010 14:23:43 GMT -6
I can't say for sure, but I got plants from at least one source you got plants from and my tank is more crystally clear than ever since putting them in.
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Post by plecoman on Jan 11, 2010 14:32:06 GMT -6
It may not have been the cause of the cloudy water, but that is the only thing different that I have done. The other breeding tank gets the same food, same everything, and it's been crystal clear. Anyway, whether it was an algae bloom or some kind of bacterial bloom going on, the uv sterilizer has solved that problem. I've never saw water this clear in a tank before. I love the uv sterilizer. I'm going to take it off the tank tonight and see how it all goes. Hopefully it has killed what ever it was. The fry were and are still as healthy as ever. ;D
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Post by jgentry on Jan 11, 2010 17:31:05 GMT -6
If it was just a hazy offwhite cloudy look to the water it was a bacteria bloom. For what ever reason some tanks have issues with this and there is often no real visable reason why. My neighbor has a 110g that is lightly stocked, over filtered, and very well cared for that gets cloudy within a week if he does not run a UV sterilizer full time. He has 2 other tanks that stay crystal clear. There's no reason that I can think of why he has bacteria problems in that one tank and nobody else has been able to give me an answer either.
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Post by angel on Jan 11, 2010 18:31:20 GMT -6
Great input JD!
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Post by davidtcb1 on Jan 11, 2010 19:37:49 GMT -6
Algae blooms produce greenish water, bacterial blooms produce the cloudy white bloom that JD is talking about. The only experience I've had with a bacterial bloom was a couple of times being guilty of over-cleaning biological filter media with tap water. In several days it will go away once the good bacteria gets colonized again.
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Post by jgentry on Jan 11, 2010 20:37:46 GMT -6
Algae blooms produce greenish water, bacterial blooms produce the cloudy white bloom that JD is talking about. The only experience I've had with a bacterial bloom was a couple of times being guilty of over-cleaning biological filter media with tap water. In several days it will go away once the good bacteria gets colonized again. Many times they go away but often they continue to come back. There are several articals written on this and nobody seems to have any reason why some tanks continue to have bacteria bloom issues. I'm glad I haven't had this issue, it would drive me crazy looking at that cloudy water. |
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Post by davidtcb1 on Jan 11, 2010 22:02:24 GMT -6
Yeah, never had one hang around either. And agree, I would do the UV before I looked at milky water half the time!
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Post by plecoman on Jan 12, 2010 14:09:17 GMT -6
It may have been an algae bloom. The water did look a light milky white, but then I would do a 50% wc every other day and it would clear for about a day. There was a day that I skipped the wc and the water did start to have a greenish look to it. So hopefully that was all it was. I took the uv sterilizer off last night and all is still great so far. The water is so clear it's amazing! Thanks for the input!  plecoman |
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