Cloudy water problem, but not real serious!!

[bohica12]

Ok, this is not a fish life or death problem, yet. Cause it has been more than a week and have lost zero fish from it. Here is my problem, I have a brownish to almost light grey color of water. My fish are still active and seem healthy(platies and Tetras). Unlike before when I did a water change I stired the gravel too much opening some gas pockets resulting into very bright white water causing some fish to kill off. That got all cleared up. This is something different. It is like there is something just circulating throughout the water like very small particles . My water filter(Whisper) is working fine, but when I look at the tank I can actually see the current of the water by the constent streem of brown particle water. I have changed the filter and cleaned everything out. I have tried water changes everyday. Nothing is working, the guy at the pet store said it will clear up eventually, (Whatever). Please help I am out of options. Maybe I should leave the carbon out of the filter? Just an Option? Thanks to whom may reply!!!

 

[aloaring]

I've got a cloudy water problem as well what i found has improved the water was actually placing some filter wool in my filter (i cut one of the sponges in half to make room for it) The sponge takes out the big pieces in the water and is a surface for bacteria to breed and the filter wool is taking out the finer particles. Put it in the top ofthe filter for it to work well.

 

[Netherways]

Hi,

I recently had a terrible cloudy water problem, started very light for a week and nothing could shift it at all. In the end I had to remove all the carbon from my filter (even if the media was brand new - I had replaced the media 3 times over a week thinking it was a dodgy filter batch!) and that finally cleared it.

I left the Filter running without the carbon for about a day and it cleared itself up (Be sure to use a new filter sponge though) then once its looking ok put a brand new filter media (carbon and sponge) back in and all should be fine. Obviously this leaves very little of your bacteria that was in the filter but you could suspend a cut off corner from your old sponge in for a day or two in the tank.

Hope it helps!

Alex