hi can any 1 give me some advice ive had my tank for about a year i had a oscar to start off with i called him doug after my dad but about 2 weeks ago i took doug to my reailer and got 2 new baby oscars the guy in the shop said they were tiger oscars with green in them they are wkd fish but the other day i decided to clean the filters are they were not running up 2 scratch so i cleaned 2 filters butg later i then realesied wat i done i cleaned the 2 filters with both pads in each which that left only 1 filter the fluval3 untouched and i usually only clean 1 pad per filter but this time i done b oth pads in both filters which i know was a big mistake i didnt clean them under the tap because i know the damage it does t the bacteria so iu cleaned them in the aquarium water from my tank whicj i took out b4 abd put it in a bucket, now a couple of days later its all gone cloudy the fish are fine and seem ok, the parremeters are fine ph is 6,so the only thing i can think of is ive got a bacterial bloom AGAIN!!!!! i was thinking if i got some sort me advof filter aid or stress zyme will this help the filter give the boost it needs????? ive put some pics on my photobucket account so ppl plz have a look and leave comments plz here is the link regards ashley1984


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have you actually checked the ammonia and nitrite? Are they both zero and no higher? If this is the case, I don't think you will benefit from adding something like stress zyme.occasionally, you can get cloudy water develop. Have you given the gravel a clean? Occasionally when you clean gravel, nutrients can be released into the water which can make the water go cloudy. I would suggest that you keep testing the water for ammonia and nitrites. I would suggest that you feed extremely sparingly until the water is completely clear. Without knowing exactly what's happened to your tank, it's very difficult to establish why this has happened. Occasionally when people add new fish, the water can go cloudy because the filter has to catch up.
So, if you could tell us your ammonia and nitrite readings, we can go from there. If you do have ammonia nitrite present, just do a small water change every day until things go back to normal. It might take a few days for the cloudiness to dissipate.

hi ofl thatnks for the reply, yh when i took my oscar back to the shop to trade him in for 2 smaller ones they checked the water and they sed nitrite was fine and so was the ammonia it was purple and he sed no need to panic and then he tested the ph it was 6 so he told me to get some PH BUFFER????? which i did so, but apart from the cloudy water i rekon its wear i cleaned both pads in both filters which i then only left 1 filter with the beneficial bacteria untouched so i rekon its a bloom???????? wat ya fink OFL?????? why wont stress zyme work????
but i do think its clearing as you can see now on this pic have a look for me ofl i think its clearer than the other pics i showed you,


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When you clean a filter in tank water you only clean it, you dont kill all the good bacteria.

If you tank clears up after a day then it is likely you just disturbed the gravel and that is where the cloudyness came from. Do you clean the gravel regular