Why is the water in my fish tank cloudy
How to Fix Cloudy Water in an Aquarium (Easiest Method)
hey how's it going everyone welcome back
to keep it simple so in today's video
we're going to be talking about how you
get rid of cloudy water in your aquarium
so I addressed this in a video quite a
long time ago and I just watched that
video and there's a few things that I
kind of like to mention in between me
watching that video and what I've said
in it so in today's video I'm gonna be
explaining a few things that I've
learned with all my friends behind me
with some cloudy water and some things
that you guys can do to fix this problem
and some things that could be causing it
so I'm actually staring out to the end
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you and without any further ado let's
get started okay so when it comes to
cloudy water there's a vast majority of
things that could be happening all of
these things could be bacteria blooms it
could be that your substrate is dirty it
could be that you have inadequate
filtration it can be that you have too
many fish and it can even be that
there's some biofilm on your glass so
basically I'm gonna run through all
those things I just said and pretty much
explain how these things can cause
cloudy water so the first thing is gonna
be that bacteria bloom so this is
something that can happen quite easily
in an aquarium especially if an aquarium
is more new and basically what has to
happen is that's to be like a southern
dose of nutrients available to bacterias
for them to suddenly bloom and these
bacterias bloom in a tiny tiny little
things you can't even see them and
that's what creates that cloud in the
aquarium this is commonly caused by
overfeeding that can be dead fish and
like kind of stuff I'm hoping that
there's no dead fish in your aquariums
and also this is really common with
Newark where it's just an imbalance in
nutrients there's too many nutrients
available for those bacteria to use and
grow and overpopulate and then you have
a huge cloud of bacteria so and my
second thing that I've noticed over the
past 7 years of keeping fish to course
bailing water is new substrate so when I
set up a new aquarium pretty much every
single time that aquarium is gonna have
some cloudiness in there now this is
really only with Aquarians to a
substrate normally when I set up like a
bare bottom tank or something like that
there's absolutely no cloudiness and
this is because there's no debris
attached to anything in the aquarium
except for maybe what's on the glass and
on the filter and like our stuff so I
had it with this aquarium behind me hope
would Disco me out here it's completely
normal and that can be why your ohms of
clothing so I think it's common
knowledge to clean your substrates every
time you say
new aquarium make sure that you get like
a bucket and you just hose it out with
the substrate in there and you give it a
good clean because you have no idea
where our substrates been that could
have been literally dragged through a
river it's got tons of dust and dirt in
there and that could be what's clouding
up your water so I clean all my
substrates but this is a really really
easy fix and normally this will just
like fix itself over time with the
filtration and all those little
sediments will fall down to the bottom
so if you set up a new aquarium don't
worry the sediment like all that like
dusts and stuff will sort itself out but
if you guys are about to set up one just
clean your gravel it's gonna save me so
much time and my third reason why we get
cloudy water in aquariums is there's
simply too many fish in the aquarium so
you might have overstocked your aquarium
this can especially happen with fish
that are commonly known to stir up
substrate and move sand around the
aquarium so shell dwellers and life and
stuff and gfa it's all those kind of
fish will get in there and they'll stir
up the substrate and that stuff can
often bring debris into the water column
and cloud it up so those are some really
really common things that can happen
fish that kind of get around the
substrate and move it around I've even
noticed like kribensis Stewart and
sometimes even apistogramma is a lot of
little cichlids kind of like tend to do
it so that can be a really really common
issue but also what can happen if you
have an aquarium that's over stop is
that those fish create a big bar load
and I turn into a big bacterial bloom
and that's very very common to happen
when you over stop an aquarium and in my
fourth reason why you can get cloudy
water in an aquarium is inadequate
filtration so what I mean by that is
either the media or the amount of
filtration so I'm not a real big
filtration guy in fact I keep all sponge
filters Meyer Chrome's if you want to
know why there's a video up here you
guys can go through and watch and I'll
completely explain it I'm not that big
on filtration I normally rely on a lot
of little bacterias and stuff like that
to break down the biological side of the
filtration in my aquarium often
sometimes when you set up an or chrome
like I was talking about before they
feel thrashing in your aquariums not
enough to take white debris out
so are you spongeable to so don't really
have to worry about this too much but
sometimes if you use hang on the back
filters and canister filters and all
that kind of stuff what can happen is
the media that you're using is too
coarse in there's too many spaces for
the material to get through and they're
not gonna filter it properly so if you
use stuff like wool that's gonna be way
way better for taking out material from
the aquarium because it's got a lot less
holes that stuff can get through and
it's obviously gonna take more stuff out
but compared to something with bigger
holes like a big porous sponge or
something like that it's just not gonna
be
take out as much debris so that can be
the reason why I don't really rely on
this one too much because I don't see it
to be a cause of why I just see it to be
more of like a kind of quick fix is to
up the filtration and get like a high
flow through the aquarium but that can
have a whole bunch of negative impacts
I'm gonna talk about them in a second
and then the fifth reason why is that
could just simply be I'm not kidding you
this does happen that could be just some
biofilm on the glass so the glass could
just be dirty and the aquarium water's
fine so normally over time biofilm forms
on the glass and this is just like a
slime kind of coat layer of just like
little organisms that form over time
even on the glasses those bacterias that
are super useful in the ammonia and
nitrates cycle in your aquarium and
helping you out to make sure you don't
have any ammonia in your aquarium so
what I recommend is just give it a scrub
make sure this isn't the issue it can be
a really really easy fix and if that is
your issue I thought I just mentioned
this really quickly just to make sure
this wasn't the problem for you okay
here those were the common reasons why
your chrome water is gonna be cloudy now
I'm gonna give you guys some solutions
and some fixes to this issue often this
issue can be quite a good indicator of
some other issues in your aquarium like
problems with ammonia and nitrates and
like and stuff so it often indicates
imbalances and things like that so I'm
gonna try and give you guys some of the
fixes that I use when I notice I have
cloudy water and some of the things I've
used in the past just to fix this
problem now like I was talking about
before the filtration can be an issue
sometimes it's not really a cause of
cloudy water but it's gonna be
definitely something that you can use to
fix the cloudy water so I think the
filtration your aquarium and adding
really really fine media to your filters
is going to be very very useful but
however this can have significantly bad
consequences on some fish so if you've
got gutters and things like that
there gonna be fish that don't really
like to have high flow and you're
actually entitled them out and cause
some issues if you start to get really
really powerful filters trying to
quickly take all the stuff out of the
water so that's something to be aware of
you don't want to have like a fish that
like a better or something like that
that really likes to sit in stagnant
water and you don't want to bring like a
big filter and that's gonna push it
around and make it swim all the time
it's just gonna tire it out and you can
even kill the fish so that's just
something to be aware of it's definitely
a big stir add more
ocean and filtration with really really
fine fine media but it's just gonna be
like a very very temporary fix and I
wouldn't recommend doing it for a very
long period of time and then of course
like the other fix is going to be to add
just less porous filter media so if
you've got like porous filter media add
less porous filter media add something
that's gonna have less spaces for stuff
to get through and it's gonna help you
filter out all that stuff but I'm gonna
tell you what I do so noble here this is
exactly what I doing this is what I'd
recommend doing and this is two up the
water changes so my go-to solution
normally when I have problems like this
in my homes and this is just my opinion
so don't get completely offended if you
guys have different solutions is
completely up to you to use those but
what I like to do is up the water
changes so I'll do like forty to fifty
percent a day until this issue goes and
this will normally fix up the issue so
if I get like cloudy water normally in
my chromes actually get it quite a bit
and this can happen when I feed like a
zucchini into my aquariums to feed the
plecos or if I feed like some green
beans and stuff like that it really does
cloudy it up because those guys are just
really really messy ears and that can be
really common cause of why I like you
get like cloudy water and the way I fix
this is literally water changes so it
might take a couple of attempts but I'll
do quite a few water changes I'll do
some really really big ones and that'll
normally fix up the issue you've got to
be careful obviously when you're doing
water changes I don't want to like make
this too complicated for you guys you
don't want to like completely stress the
fish out and if you've got like little
near carroty and a shrimp and stuff like
that lots of water changes can actually
be detrimental maybe you can up the
filtration on that side of things I've
noticed that with all the fish that I
keep which are dwarf cichlids angelfish
bristlenose plecos
neon tetras and rainbow fish normally I
just have to do a couple of water
changes to get this issue out of my
aquarium and when I was keeping fish at
the start I found that like very very
confusing because a lot of people saying
you only needed to do water changes once
a day
look I don't really have a problem with
a lot of people doing water changes
frequently as long as they're not
tampering with too much of the stuff
inside the aquarium so I wouldn't
recommend going in with a big
back in siphoning out all the stuff in
it because substrate holds a really
large amount of the beneficial bacteria
in your aquarium so I would recommend
doing that but I definitely recommend
upping some water changes and that's
simply what I would do so look I hope
this video helped you out cloudy waters
kind of one of those things for me where
there's no simple fix and I wouldn't
recommend adding chemicals and stuff
like that to your aquarium
my fix is gonna be doing just frequent
water changes fitness center day and
this issue should go away so I hope you
guys learned something today I hope I
could help you fix your issue I'll see
you guys in the next video
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