[FishKid]

My moms tank has more than adequate filtration, and gets a water change once a week. All conditions are fine, but it is always cloudy, and over feeding is not a prob.

any ideas?? it looks horrible, and fish look like they are lossing color!

mark

[Mikeman]

any chemicals in the tank, what kind of fish, did she wash the gravel?

[FishKid]

The only chem is algae destroyer, but it was cloudy way before we started adding that. The fish are: 1 LG Angel, 2 juv. angels, about 15 assorted tetra, a pleco, a cory cat, and a pictus cat. I personally washed the gravel when we set-up the tank about a year ago. it clouded up after 4 or so months, and there was an algae bloom, that i credited to high PH (dont know how it got high) but it is low now (6.7)

mark

[ranaman]

Cloudy water is caused by a bacterial bloom. If you used an algicide they might be growing on the decomposing algae. I would do a serious water change, change carbon, vacum gravel and give a general clean up. Products like accu-clear and filter-aid can help by clumping up the cloudiness so the filter can remove it. It also can bind up phosphorus so the little buggers starve. HTH