Smoke on the water

[Britfish]

Hi guys, well the new tanks been running for 2 weeks now, lovely and crystal clear, but I got home from work yesterday and it looks like its clouded up again? What do you think, algae bloom? There is no colour to the cloudiness. shall I just leave it to clear natrually? Water tests ammonia 0 nitrates 0 so the water quality's fine.
Thanks, Ad

 

[wayne]

Normally in a freshwater tank a white cloudiness indicates bacteria, so I'm surprised these no ammonia. SO, your tank is zero ammonia and nitrate, so either it's all zero , meaing completely uncycled, or it's all nitrite or your test kits are inaccurate/rubbish - possible. It's not sand, what has gone in there so far in terms of gravel, plants, fish , chemicals?

 

[Britfish]

Hi Wayne, there is a sand bottom but I dont think it was disturbed.
Water in it for 2 weeks, 1 synodontis in it for 1 week very happy, no chemicals added except dechlorinator, no plants, its a Malawi tank.
I dont think the kits are wrong as the ammonia and nitrate test are 2 different tests... maybe the syno kicked up a load of sand in the night? It has 2 Ehiem 2280 's on so would these keep churning the sand back out if it is suspended in the water?

 

[Britfish]

And the cloud isnt white, its just murky....

 

[Abercrombie6202]

hmm... no it's not the probably not the filter, what kind of plants, rocks, wood, do you have in there?

How big is that fish?

 

[Britfish]

Hi Abercrombie,
No plants, about a tonne of granite, no wood,
The syno is about 4 1/2 inches, but the tanks a 240....