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Posted	Hazey Water
19-11-2006 18:29 by AndreaC	Hi. Can anyone explain why my water is hazey? When you look in the tank from the front its slightly hazey, if you look in the tank from the side its hazey and slightly murky! Ive done part water changes and tested water and the water is fine.
19-11-2006 18:48 by keith t	you often get this on new setups, and if you have done a large water change also, new water bloom, activated carbon will clear this, also use fine filter wool to polish water. i used to suffer this changing large quantities of water, but since using uv sterilizer and filterwool my water is cystal clear, if i didnt have ripples on water surface you wouldnt think there was water in there, but obviously fish swimming around is also a big give away
19-11-2006 18:50 by Danny Boy	what filter do you have? and on what size tank? does sound like an ammonia bloom to me, you may be changing too much water to try to clear it up making things worse.
19-11-2006 19:04 by keith t	Ive done part water changes and tested water and the water is fine. she has tested water so surely am i right in thinking there is no ammonia then. If so how can it be ammonia bloom
19-11-2006 20:20 by Danny Boy	not here to argue keith just putting a diffrent opion out there to try and help. for all i know andrea is only testing for nitrates.
19-11-2006 20:23 by keith t	sorry didnt mean for it to sound like it does, just re read wot i put,
19-11-2006 21:48 by Danny Boy	no worries i do it all the time without intention. if the large water changes are made without say a dechlorinator that would have the effect of a bloom
19-11-2006 22:23 by AndreaC	Hi sorry. I have for last 3 days done a 20% water change and used declorinater. I did this due to my fantail becoming unsettled like ive mentioned in other posts lol. Anyway I use the 5 in 1 tests which tests amonia, nitrite, nitrate,PH etc.. and they have come back fine. I even took a tank water sample up to local Fish shop and they ytested also and it was ok. So maybe its the water changes then that has done it?? It was suggested to do this incase the fantail had and infection and contaminated the water. So I did it
19-11-2006 22:39 by Danny Boy	well 20% water changes each day should be fine and i would say good advice too. if you are dechlorinating then my theory is out of the window so thats one issue illiminated. have you added anything to the tank recently thats out of the ordinary? think i would try keiths idea wih the fine filter wool and see if that helps clear it up?
20-11-2006 11:21 by AndreaC	Nope not added anything new. I will try Kieths suggestion with the filter wool. Thanks again.

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