[APD] cloudy water problem

["Walter Igharas" <walterigharas at hotmail_com>]

I have a problem with my water column. The water is a cloudy white. It does 
not have any of the characteristics of an algae bloom. But I could be 
wrong..

The aquarium is fairly new and has been set up for 1 month. The first three 
weeks I added the plants that included watersprites, hygro sp., Crypts, 
Lilaeopsis, Anubius, Ludwigia repens and Bacopa monnieri. The 4 week I added 
some invertebrates: trumpet snails and 10 amano shrimp.

Things were going well and the water was crystal clear. Then one day the 
fluval was not working. I fixed the problem and during the priming of the 
canister some 'white stuff' that was located in the tubing got into the 
aquarium. And ever since that time the water column has become cloudy and 
the water has an earthy smell to it.

After doing some research on the web and some suggest this is a bacterial 
bloom or part of the "aquarium cycling ". But I am not sure.

My question is what is going on in the water column? All my parameters look 
correct!!
Also what can I do about it?


Here is some additional information about the aquarium.
substrate: sand + ecocomplete
Co2 dosing: 20 bubbles per min
pH: between 6.8-7.0
Kh: 5 degress
nitrates: 0 ppm
phosphates: 0 ppm
ammonia:0 ppm
nitrites: 0 ppm


Thanks
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