Cloudy Tank May Be Due To Plants?

[jgray152]

I have a 29 gallon with a few plants and latley the water seems to cloud up slightly over time. I am having a bit of a algae problem but I have my light off to take care of that hopefully.

Can plants cloud water at all? Maybe decaying leaves or chewed leaves?

 

[Liam]

No plants will not cloud the water. The tank maybe needs more water changes/more filtration or is having a bacterial bloom.

 

[Biulu]

What kind of substrate do you have? Has the substrate been moved (either by you or furrowing fish)?

 

[frozenbarb]

Unless.. You have Non Aquatic plants and they are dying.

 

[jgray152]

I have all aquatic plants. I have sand as a substrate but this cloudiness is very recent for some reason. It used to stay crystal clear. I switched filters to from a HOB to a Rena xp4 and after about a month the tank started to cloud up. I thought maybe it was ammonia or nitrite but thats all zero.