Tanks looks cloudy?

[gabrielgalhano]

Hello, everyone

First of all, I hope I'm posting this tread on the right place

So, as some of you might know, I've been having some trouble with my main tank. Currently I have ich in my tank and after some research here in the forum I started the temperature treatment (it's been at 86F/30C for about 3/4 days).

However, since I started this approach, the water always seams to be very cloudy. I've been doing regular water changes, cleaning the filter, siphoning the substrate... I don't know if this is normal due to the water temperature or not... Can anyone help with this?

 

[Slaphppy7]

Hello, everyone

First of all, I hope I'm posting this tread on the right place

So, as some of you might know, I've been having some trouble with my main tank. Currently I have ich in my tank and after some research here in the forum I started the temperature treatment (it's been at 86F/30C for about 3/4 days).

However, since I started this approach, the water always seams to be very cloudy. I've been doing regular water changes, cleaning the filter, siphoning the substrate... I don't know if this is normal due to the water temperature or not... Can anyone help with this?

Could be microbubbles from saturated gasses in the water, do you have lots of surface agitation in the tank?....a bubbler?

 

[gabrielgalhano]

Could be microbubbles from saturated gasses in the water, do you have lots of surface agitation in the tank?....a bubbler?

The filter does a lot of agitation in the surface o the water and I have 2 air pumps running in the tank currently...

 

[Slaphppy7]

When cleaning the filter, you are not "cleaning" the media, correct?...just rinsing in old tank water?

 

[gabrielgalhano]

When cleaning the filter, you are not "cleaning" the media, correct?...just rinsing in old tank water?

Yes, correct. I use the water of the water changes

 

[Slaphppy7]

Yes, correct. I use the water of the water changes

Good...then I'm not really sure what the issue could be...what's the lighting schedule on the tank?

 

[gabrielgalhano]

Good...then I'm not really sure what the issue could be...what's the lighting schedule on the tank?

I turn the lights on arround 10am and turn them off max midnight.

But could it be the light? Cause this never happened before and the light schedule was always more or less this...

 

[Bruce Leyland-Jones]

However, since I started this approach, the water always seams to be very cloudy. I've been doing regular water changes, cleaning the filter, siphoning the substrate... I don't know if this is normal due to the water temperature or not... Can anyone help with this?

Is this a milky cloudiness, or a greenish cloudiness?
The former would be a bacterial bloom, the latter would be algae.

 

[gabrielgalhano]

Is this a milky cloudiness, or a greenish cloudiness?
The former would be a bacterial bloom, the latter would be algae.

milky.
So... Adding to the ich now I have a bacterial bloom?

 

[Slaphppy7]

milky.
So... Adding to the ich now I have a bacterial bloom?

How long was the tank set up before the ich outbreak?
Was it fully cycled?

 

[gabrielgalhano]

How long was the tank set up before the ich outbreak?
Was it fully cycled?

yes, it's been set up for about 4/5 months.
The ich outbreak happened not even a week ago

 

[Slaphppy7]

I suppose it could be going through a mini-cycle, hence the bloom....which isn't hurting anything, BTW

Have you checked ammonia, nitrIte, and nitrAte levels lately?

 

[gabrielgalhano]

I suppose it could be going through a mini-cycle, hence the bloom....which isn't hurting anything, BTW

Have you checked ammonia, nitrIte, and nitrAte levels lately?

Yes i've been keeping a close eye on those because I recently went through a high level on nitrates in this tank (which is now solved).

I havent had the chance to get the kit to test amonia yet, but I have the test strips for nitrite, nitrate, gh, kh, ph and and Cl and those are all under control

 

[gabrielgalhano]

I suppose it could be going through a mini-cycle, hence the bloom....which isn't hurting anything, BTW

Have you checked ammonia, nitrIte, and nitrAte levels lately?

But since I made a 70% water change recently due to the nitrate thing, it could indeed be the mini-cycle, right?

 

[Slaphppy7]

But since I made a 70% water change recently due to the nitrate thing, it could indeed be the mini-cycle, right?

If you have ANY ammonia or nitrIte, the tank isn't cycled, or was and isn't anymore.
You really need to get the API Freshwater master test kit, the ammonia test is of utmost importance.

Which water conditioner do you use?