Water Clowdy

[LEDit0ut]

well strangly my water seems very clowdy and i was wondering it is a bacteria boom or bacterial suicide?

im am currently doing a fish cycle (no thanks to no good fishkeepers and their wonderful advice)(didnt kno about the fishless cycle till i found this site)

anyways im about 2 weeks inot he cycle w/ no casualties in my 20g tank

seems that there are plently ammonia eatin bacteria in the tank because the ammonia is 0 and the nitire is sky high

well anyways since the nitite is so high im currently doing about 25-50% water changes everyotherday and adding "stress zyme"

well me being a noob accidently added about 1/2 inch of untreated tap water for the past 2 days
realizing this i quickly stoped and added some dechlorifier

is it my bacteria dieing?

please tell me they are not dieing
i could be paranoid because it wasnt exactly crystal clear 2 days ago

 

[nmonks]

Water sometimes (often) goes cloudy early on in a tank's life. There's nothing to worry about providing your fish are fine. Since you're using fish to cycle the tank, you need to watch their behaviour closely. Look to see if the fish are swimming freely about in the water or gasping at the surface. If the latter, do a water change at once and try and increase the aeration (or turbulence caused by the filter).

When the ammonium is zero and the nitrites are high, that means you're halfway through the cycle. So don't panic yet! Everything is fine. A little "raw" tap water won't do any harm to either your bacteria or the hardy fish you're cycling the tank. You now know better, so won't do it again, so I wouldn't worry about that further.

There are different sorts of cloudiness. If it's a milky cloudiness, that's often silt, though there may be other causes. Silt eventually settles out by itself, but using a fine filter wool in the filter helps enormously. A yellowy cloudiness is usually diatoms, a kind of algae, and there isn't much you can do about that without resorting to a UV filter. The diatoms eventually go away once the tank settles.

Regardless, do keep an eye on the fish, and make sure you don't overfeed. The tank should be completely cycled in about 6 weeks from start to finish, but certainly within 4 weeks you should find nitrites close to zero.

Cheers,

Neale

PS. Try not to swear in posts here. There are people here of all ages, and no one really likes to read angry, rude posts.

 

[LEDit0ut]

ty and opps ok ill watch my self from now on