cloudy aquarium water

This morning I noticed that all the water and a smaller 13.5 I keep at a very notable green tint to it. This essentially happened overnight. I don't keep livestock in the tank, mainly macro algae that I harvest, and a couple of days ago I had pulled the decent size load from one of my reactors...

Hello, For the past 2 days my water has been very cloudy out of no where. All my turbo snails have become very lethargic and are exposing themselves out there shells. I did water tests and have the following. NH3/NH4: .08ppm Nitrates: 0 Nitrites: 0 Alk: 9.1 Ph: 8.0 Temp: 78 Everything else in...

So i have a 32 gallon biocube which has been running smoothly for over a year now. The only filtration i run is a bag of chemipure blue under some intank filter floss, that along with weekly 5 gallon water changes have been enough to keep the tank stable. I woke up today and freaked out at the...

Started a tank this fall and finished cycling with a few clown fish in September. I have been adding a few more fish since and in November I had my first bout with cloudy water. After about two weeks or so with no change in cloudiness I setup ozone and within 72 hours at low levels it cleared...

Need help had a clown die on me, ran my tank cycle for about a month finally decided to buy some fish small clean up crew and a torch from the coral show in New Jersey, I used Fritz turbo start in tank first week and last week I added a little more 3 days before I added livestock. I am down a...

Hello Everyone, I had posted this issue in the algae forum but after some investigating and discovering new phone camera features... I am seeing an obscene amount of copepods everywhere... in water, on rock, glass, substrate. This seems alot more than normal. Since I have a Mandarin and am aware...

My system is a 1000L FOWLR tank which has been running for almost a year. Ever since the tank has been running it seems to always have a slight cloud to the water. It’s not very noticeable when looking at it from the front, however side on makes it quite apparent. It can be hard to see one end...

Hey guys, I have a 10g tank and every time I do a water change my water gets cloudy! I don’t understand. It’s going to be barely a month (next week) that I have this tank up and running with livestock. All of my water parameters are fine. Ammonia-0 Nitrite-0 Nitrate-0 Ph-8.0 My tank has been...

I've been having a rough time with my 20g tank for a while now; all the macroalgae are growing great, and the fish are still healthy despite the ich/lympho/? they arrived with. However the corals and rfa I got a few months ago aren't doing too well, and the water has been perpetually cloudy...

I mixed up a batch of water for a water change last night and then decided i was going to do it in the morning instead. I woke up and started changing the water in my tank (50g water change on 500g). It was a little dark so i didn't notice sooner but it looked like the new water coming in was...

Hey guys, The carbon in my hob filter was about 2 months old, and wasn't really cleaning the water much anymore. So I bought, rinsed and put in a new activated carbon pack. Almost right away the water started getting white cloudy... couple hours later and it turned green! Google says using...

Hey there, Relatively new reefer here, I currently have a 75 gallon that has been up and running for about 2 months. I had transferred all live rock and filtration from an established tank to this one. I only have a pair of clowns and a bi color angel and no new additions so my bio load is low...

so scratching my head here.... waters been cloudy (milky) last 4 days - no new additions to tank, all livestock is accounted for, filter changed on Sunday (normal monthly change ~15th of month penguin 250, 2 filter model) all parameters are ok (I stopped with the reef roids and switched to reef...

I recently created a rocky (hollow) aquascape out of polymer clay (fully cured: heated at 280 for 1 hour) filled with mortar cement (cured for a week) but the water has started getting slightly cloudy. The water is RODI and about 1.010 salinity. Though the tank isn't stocked with anything other...

So my 23 gallon frag tank has been super cloudy the past 6 days and I’ve tried almost everything under the books to get it clear. Frag tank is a Red Sea 350 V3 sump; I broke the baffles down. I run carbon, Sera Crystal clear media on a Sicce whale canister. I have a Nero 3 and a Tunze nano...

My 75 gallon saltwater tank has has been gathering sediment on the top it’s either sand or bacteria but no matter how much I do water changes or change the wave makers it always comes back anything could help.

Parameters using API test kits Ph:8.2 Nitrate: 5-10 ppm Alk: 11 Calc: 440 ppm Phosphate: undetectable (api goes from 0- .25 so my goal is to keep it undetectable until I get better kits) currently running carbon my tank is currently going on month 4. Diatoms died out and I’ve been trying to...

Hi. I have a new (5 week old) 10 gallons nano reef tank with live sand and dry rock (reef saver). For the last 2 days my water is cloudy - milky white and I don't know if its a bacterial bloom (I had one, it lasted 24 hours) or its from dosing kalkwasser with ATO because I want to maintain PH. I...

Hey everyone, my tank has been cycling for around two months now and I have noticed that the water has become super cloudy over the past week. There are these little brown nubs that form a web over the sand. Are they Dinos? I had three fish ready from my 30 day quarantine and was wanting to put...

Any reason why the water is cloudy? -We do water changes every week - Lights on at Night until bedtime Is there anyway to fix this

Hi all! Newby here. I finished a "fishless cycle" then introduced a clown last week and turned on the lights. Water has been really clear all along, but today it has started to get cloudy. Any suggestions? water parameters: salinity 1.025, alkalinity 8.5, pH 8.0, temp 77.1, nitrates 20...

Hi everyone. Recently, I have been facing a small dino issue. Since the two pieces of coral died (for reasons I still can't figure out), I decided to do a blackout. Right now, the water is extremely murky. I will take pictures but it is nasty and the smell coming off the tank is also terrible...

Good morning to everyone. I’ll start with my tank being 6 months old now it’s a 20 gallon FOWLR tank with only a hob filter for the filtration. My parameters the last week I checked were salinity: 1.022 Ammonia: 0 Nitrite: 0 Nitrate: 2 Phosphate: 0.03 Temp: 78F Calcium: 390 Magnesium: 1260...

I have a 75g aquarium been running for a couple of months now, I cycled the tank with the microbacter starter kit and it went well. The starter kit also came with a bottle of microbacter clean, to use over the next few months to battle through the ugly phase. The ugly phase has begun and hasn't...

Why is my tank so foggy