So I'm after a little help please, our tank has become very cloudy over the past few week and I'm lost as to what else to try resolve it. I think I know what may have caused it but have no idea how to fix it?!
We had some eldoea densa plants and they got quite large and started to take over the tank (and also hid any waste/debris/dead fish that had gone unnoticed) so I decided to remove it and slim it down by splitting some of the plants out and cutting off the 'dead' stems before putting them back in the tank. (They had been in for a good few months so it disrupted the gravel at the bottom) shortly after that the water started to cloud over. I kept an eye of the levels and did my usual weekly water changes, still the tank remained slightly cloudy. I ensured to also keep an eye on the water lettuce plants we also have in the tank, and removed any plants that looked unhealthy. After a week I decided to totally remove the eldoea plant during a water change, still no improvement but levels all remained where they should. Then last week the tank went extremely cloudy, we tried changing/rinsing the filters every couple of days to no avail, so I did a 50% water change on Sunday evening (using a vacuum to remove the water/waste from the bottom), rinsed/changed the filters, added water conditioner as usual and eagerly waited. Mondays comes and so remains the cloudy tank!
Tuesday the ammonia levels spiked (just a little) so I removed all ornaments and plants (fake & live) and gave them a good old rinse (in tank water of course) and again used the vacuum to do a 20% water change c/w filter change before putting the ornaments and fake plants only back in the tank. Wednesday whilst scratching my head as to why the tank was still cloudy, I spotted something under the filter. Unfortunately, it looked like fish remains but with the pleasant surprise of finding some baby fish hiding out around it. So after prodding, poking n hoovering we managed to remove the furry mass. Again we changed/rinsed the filters and topped the water levels back up. 24 hours later we still have an extremely cloudy tank!!!! Please help!!!
My tank is a Juwel rio 125 with a fluval filter (silicone sealed to the side) and our fishy family compromises of:
5 x diamond tetra
4 x neon tetra
3 x albino corydoras
1 x albino pleco
2 x shrimp
5 x harlequins
2 x female guppies (unfortunately the males didn't last longer than a week, looked like they were stressed and their fins started to rot)
And some surprise babies: 2 x larger babies (unsure who they belong to but quite possibly the diamond tetra) 5 x tiny tiny babies (again unsure who they belong to)
Luckily all fishes are happily swimming around, none are hiding or acting out of the ordinary
We had some eldoea densa plants and they got quite large and started to take over the tank (and also hid any waste/debris/dead fish that had gone unnoticed) so I decided to remove it and slim it down by splitting some of the plants out and cutting off the 'dead' stems before putting them back in the tank. (They had been in for a good few months so it disrupted the gravel at the bottom) shortly after that the water started to cloud over. I kept an eye of the levels and did my usual weekly water changes, still the tank remained slightly cloudy. I ensured to also keep an eye on the water lettuce plants we also have in the tank, and removed any plants that looked unhealthy. After a week I decided to totally remove the eldoea plant during a water change, still no improvement but levels all remained where they should. Then last week the tank went extremely cloudy, we tried changing/rinsing the filters every couple of days to no avail, so I did a 50% water change on Sunday evening (using a vacuum to remove the water/waste from the bottom), rinsed/changed the filters, added water conditioner as usual and eagerly waited. Mondays comes and so remains the cloudy tank!
Tuesday the ammonia levels spiked (just a little) so I removed all ornaments and plants (fake & live) and gave them a good old rinse (in tank water of course) and again used the vacuum to do a 20% water change c/w filter change before putting the ornaments and fake plants only back in the tank. Wednesday whilst scratching my head as to why the tank was still cloudy, I spotted something under the filter. Unfortunately, it looked like fish remains but with the pleasant surprise of finding some baby fish hiding out around it. So after prodding, poking n hoovering we managed to remove the furry mass. Again we changed/rinsed the filters and topped the water levels back up. 24 hours later we still have an extremely cloudy tank!!!! Please help!!!
My tank is a Juwel rio 125 with a fluval filter (silicone sealed to the side) and our fishy family compromises of:
5 x diamond tetra
4 x neon tetra
3 x albino corydoras
1 x albino pleco
2 x shrimp
5 x harlequins
2 x female guppies (unfortunately the males didn't last longer than a week, looked like they were stressed and their fins started to rot)
And some surprise babies: 2 x larger babies (unsure who they belong to but quite possibly the diamond tetra) 5 x tiny tiny babies (again unsure who they belong to)
Luckily all fishes are happily swimming around, none are hiding or acting out of the ordinary