Cloudy tank problem

[Whitechicks7]

Recently got the time to start another 2ft planted.



As usual I started the cycling process with Ada soil.



Base layer of Ada Amazonia

Add on with ocean free pond bacteria

Last layer of Ada Amazonia



Weekly dose of ocean free bacteria.

After the first week, mould started growing on the soil..

I added a few plants to speed up the process in the end my plants also got affected with the mould.



Now already 2 weeks plus , tank is still cloudy and particles flying around.



Filtration using eheim 2213 with me aqua media.

One extra hob with just sponges to clear the particles.



I put in a few sae and Otto.. But still same.

Ammonia Lvl fluctuate 0.25 to 0ppm



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Can anyone advise.



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[SwordZ]

Your plants are quite slow growing, you might wanna throw in a bunch of frogbits/hornworts to soak up the nutrients first, or do a water change

[Whitechicks7]

Your plants are quite slow growing, you might wanna throw in a bunch of frogbits/hornworts to soak up the nutrients first, or do a water change

Hi bro noted. Any idea why there are fungus growing ?


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[inrewind]

This is a stab in the dark, but I'm guessing the abundance of nutrients and the lack of plants give rise to the fungus. It is advisable to do a 50% water change daily for a week, then 20% every 2 days for 2 weeks, then 50% weekly. This regime had worked for me well. Like Swordz mentioned, your plants are slow growing. Use frogbits/hornworts/water sprite, basically any nutrient hogs to aid in the process.


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[Urban Aquaria]

The cloudy water was most likely encouraged by the dosing of the bottle bacteria... such bottled solutions are a different form of bacteria and can sometimes cause bacteria blooms, hence persistent cloudy water.

Maybe you can try stopping the dosing of those solutions and do additional water changes to flush out the excess nutrients being released by the new ADA aquasoil. The tank will naturally cycle on its own without those bacteria solutions anyways.

The mold and fungus is simply feeding on excess organic compounds in the tank so you just have to manually remove as much of them as possible, eventually they will disappear once their food source is depleted (SAE and otos don't really eat mold or fungus growths, though shrimps may consume some of it).

As for the floating particles, make sure your filter contains a layer of fine white filter wool (and make sure all the water flows through it, not around it), that helps to trap all the floating particles and remove them from the water column, without it the particles will just keep re-circulating back into the tank.