--- Vic Di Cosola <clutch24 at adelphia_net> wrote:
> . . . A very nice guy here mentioned in my earlier post on cloudy
> water, that this could be early bacteria/normal?? I'm not set to
> panic JUST yet, but...2 days after a 50% water change, it's more
> cloudy than before and seems to be getting worse.
I haven't found water changes to be particularly helpful with the
clouldiness that comes from a cycling tank. It comes right back. I've
thought that this was because it's more a matter of the good bacteria not
yet outcompeting the stuff that clouds the water. You pull out a bunch of
the bacteria with a water change and it just grows back rather quickly. If
you try to starve the bacteria, you can end up starving your plants. Hoping
I learned well from Tom, I try to be sure my plants don't go hungry. And if
I got impatient, I'd throw on a UV. If it started to turn green on me, then
I might be even more inclined to use a UV, but I've never actually had
green
water, knock on wood.