White Cloudy Water - 24hours into seeded cycle

[RobGoldsmith]

Guys

I am 24 hours into setting up my new tank.
I have:

Added two cups of the gravel from my cycled aquarium
Put some of my filter sponge from cycled aquarium into new aquariums filter
Added weed from cycled aquarium
Cleaned filter of cycled aquarium with new aquarium filter
Added deco from cycled aquarium into new tank

I have noticed that 24 hours in, I am getting white cloudy water, you can see it being pushed around by the filter. Is this a good or a bad sign?

(Done no testing)

Help

Thanks
Rob

 

[freash_water_monster]

its not going to harm you tank , well it might but, My did that as soon as i finished with my planted tank it was ccloudy for a day in a half mabye it should go away

 

[OrangeCones]

It sounds like a lot of the bacteria is in the water column, looking for a place to live. Are you feeding the new tank with a source of ammonia (either actual ammonia or fish living in the water)?

 

[RobGoldsmith]

I have been putting fish food in there every 12 hours and am putting the third in now.
I havent got a fish in there yet. Do you think it would be ok?

I have my fish in the cycled tank and also my apple snail there. I dont have any amonia here and the shops have closed, any ideas?

Thanks
Rob

 

[unwritten law]

bacteria bloom... just leave it alone.... it means its working...

 

[RobGoldsmith]

I thought it might be bacteria as this happened several weeks into my first tank, but i was a bit suprosed it happened after 24 hours. I now dont know whether to add a starter fish or pure ammonia! Hmmm

 

[unwritten law]

its cause you seeded it.... just do a fish-less cycle

 

[RobGoldsmith]

Does this mean I am running ahead of a seedless cycle? Test kit comes tomorrow! should answer some Qs

 

[aakaakaak]

Sounds like you're close to cycled. Yes, it's a bacterial bloom. Don't put fish in until you test the water. Just keep doing what you're doing until you know the god's honest truth of what your test kit tells you: 0 Ammonia/0 Nitrites/10 Nitrates. Then you can ssssslllloooowwwwwllllyyyy move your fishies over species by species.

 

[RobGoldsmith]

Excited!

 

[RobGoldsmith]

I have however been left with a white film all across my glass! Looks horrible, you can see it here where my hands left clean areas earlier when they were in the tank.

Should I leave this on here for a bit or clean it off?

Thanks
Rob

 

[aakaakaak]

A magnet cleaner will fix that right up.

...I need to get one of them....

 

[unwritten law]

youre not close to being cycled..... but its starting...

 

[marvin]

food bad juju..add salt .. water clarifier.. your probably ok tho..

 

[RobGoldsmith]

Getting nitrite readings of 3ppm now and fairly high nitrate readings, perhaps 80... (trying to remember as not at home now) cloudy white has gone though

 

[OrangeCones]

food bad juju..add salt .. water clarifier.. your probably ok tho..

food bad?
add salt?
water clarifier?

Huh?