problems with water clarity

[The_Priest]

ive been carefully adding my stocks to my tank and after cycling , my tank has has fish in it for about a month now i am having problems all of a sudden with water clarity, my water is going all murky and full of sediment where this has come from i dont know, even after regular water changes and regular filter maintenance the very next day its cloudy again, i have no idea where this sediment and cloudy water keeps coming from? its not down to decoration i dont think because i had the filter with everything in the tank running at least a month prior to addding fish and this wasnt a problem, hmmmmm can anyone help?

by the way i have no ammonia or nitrite present and i only have 10mg/ltr of nitrate present so my filter is doing its job well!

 

[fish_r_great]

What ornaments do you have in the tank?

 

[yhbae]

Did this happen after adding new fishes? If this is the case, you are probably experiencing a small bacterial bloom - this normally goes away with typical aquarium maintenance, including regular water changes... You don't need to do anything special, especially if your water parameters are ok as you mentioned already.

 

[The_Priest]

yeah it has only happened recently after the introduction of 4 new fish, in my tank i have 2 small bits of mopani wood, but i kept these in a bucket for a few months before adding them to the tank to leach out all the dye, i only added them when the huge bucket i kept them in was clear as i kept changing the water daily, so i doubt it could be that.

Thanks for your help

 

[modernhamlet]

What color would you say the cloudiness is?

If it's greenish, it's probably an algae bloom.
If it's more white, as yhbae said, it's probably a bacterial bloom.

Either should clear up in a few days. I'd do an extra water change or two and see if things clear up in a few days.