There is a true kindness in your voice, you really care about animals and other people. I hope your passion for animals and nature brings you even more happiness as time goes on, and that you experience even more success. I like seeing an honest person on KZfaq who isn’t just a mouth piece and really cares. You will go far my friend, you just have to always keep believing in yourself.

Two weeks in my tank is still going crystal clear this man is amazing 👏 🙌 follow all his instructions believe me it works ❤

Never over feed... the fresher water is a reset of sorts you are right. An environment in a glass box.... best explanation ever.

Your videos have really helped me grow from being a beginner and nervous about maintaining a fish tank to being confident and comfortable sustaining the ecosystem in the tank. Keep up the great work! 😊

I kept saltwater and freshwater for 40 years now with no problems and never do water changes. I use homemade plexiglass tops that stop water evaporation and use sponge or homemade internal filters, and internal pumps. My very first aquarium was a 20 gallon saltwater hexagonal tthat had a 2 foot yellow-headed moray eel from a garage sale. I kept it for 9 years and he was three feet for most of that time with a hang on filter and an under gravel filter and I hardly ever changed the water. I also never test and I always enjoy my fish!

I have been to many fish channels but yours is really "keep it simple". I like how the way to explain it. thanks for video...

Yea this is true because when I first rescaped my new tank I had to change water every single week or 2 times a week and after I started adding more fast growing plants to my aquascape like pogostemon stelatus octopus they started growing like weeds and I just kept on trimming and replanting to the point that I have a whole wall of it on the background and it’s super cool to see and now I don’t have to do water changes for a month or more it’s basically balanced and yes I still test the water to check everything is good

I know I am late to the party but…. I really appreciate your knowledge of what the cause and effects are. Of course keeping that water clear requires a little help by us hobbyists. Don’t over stir the gravel or Stratum or whatever you are using. I use Stratum in one tank and not in another. I love seeing the growth in both tanks. By the way, thank you, at 8:35, for solutions too!

I love the little red guy at 9:36 he's got his stomp on😂😂😂

Also! This happened to me a few time 😅. Aquarium glass isnt clean enough and makes you think that the water is cloudy 🙈😆 first clean your glass, then you'll see if the water is actually cloudy

3:05 You would never know it if these plecos had ich! 😂

My tank was cloudy and eventually went clear after about a week, I did a water change and it went milky cloudy again. My tank has been fully cycled, so Idk, I think some people are right when they say just leave the tank and don't do water changes until the water balances out.

I started with a 3.5 gal tank with a Betta and mystery snail. Also bladder snails introduced themselves in on some plants. Keeping the water parameters good was a hard task. I now have a fortress 10 gal for my Betta. Water changes aren't needed, the tests all read good. But due to the bioload from the snails. I do it every week. After water change I dose tank with stability, have had great results.

You have the best Australian KZfaq channel

Despite water changes, lowering the fish load, adding more plants, and adding a second filter my aquarium remained cloudy. I added filter floss to one of the filters and the tank is now crystal clear.

Great and very informative video Nick,keep up the great work 👌🏼

Great video bought my first tank today so I’m just trying to do my research on everything before adding my fish so thankyou

Great video Nick,huge fan of your videos mate you're inspiring me to have a go at breeding some bettas. Keep up the great work mate 👍

Love and Support from India ❤️

Thanks just got my new glow fishes 3 days ago and water is kind of cloudy thanks for the tips dude

My water was cloudy when cycling initially and had a bacterial bloom. After the cycle completed, the water is crystal clear! Looks amazing!

Thanks dude! I just set up a planted 30 gallon tank yesterday n was washing the substrate for about 10 min for each portion that i put in but the water never cleared completely. I admit, i might’ve gotten a lil impatient with it so naturally, when I filled it i got a 30 gallon cloudy mess. Gonna start to 20% a day till it goes away today

Add COTTON into the filter. In a way that water has to flow thru this cotton. Its very fine and will take out any greenwater algae and similar particles. Keep it only 24 hours as it can clog quickly and start decomposing.

Good presentation. Do you have a video on how to clean/suction out the build up in the bottom of the tank?

Thankyou sorted our problem out thanks to this video will be watching more

Thank you very much it was a really easy and and great explanation of how it work I've had same problem but I've managed to fix it with lots of plants and my tank is almost at the point of running without a filter.

Awesome video nick! Thankyou so much for a very informative video! Really enjoyed it!. Keep up the amazing work 🙂

Hi, I’m about to get my hands on some l201 plecos and I would love to know what you feed yours. Thanks for all the videos too. Looking forward to future content. Ok I’m gonna watch the video now.

protip, always grab a bit of dirt and toss it in. helps cycle 100x faster also, add a UV filter

Great help mine looks like that after I cleaned it

Very informative thank you👍🙌

Do floating plants such as duckweed, redroot, and water lettuce work, or do they need to be rooted plants?

Very good video thank you for answering a lot of my questions lots of love😮😅😊❤

The answer is stock entire tank with live fast growing plants will cure it permanently.

I forgot to rinse my sand! And I added some water...like 2" of water. If I added leaves from outside it'll clear the water? I don't have fish in it yet but I am kind of in a rush to get my fish in here. Love plants, where I'm at I have to order.

3m11s in what's that black fish with the luminous spots called?

Hi Nick. I may be wrong here but just thinking out aloud. The white cloudiness is caused by the heterotrophic bacteria which cause the bacteria bloom & which are the same bacteria that you use when culturing infusoria for fry by decomposing organic vegetable matter. The bacteria feed on the organic matter creating a bacteria bloom making the water milky & the infusoria then feed on these bacteria & multiply and make the water clear once they mature. Therefore wouldn't it make sense to add infusoria to a cloudy tank to feed on these bacteria & clear up the bacterial bloom. These infusoria will then provide food for the fish in the tank. Please let me have your thoughts on the same. Thanks once again for providing great content. 👍👌

Thanks, im having problems.. I bought the green killer machine n it helped me tremendously, over feeding was my giggles issue, so I stopped feeding so much

4:27 That's one awesome looking fish!!! Mind if i ask the name of it? Freshwater or saltwater?

do we need a corner filter carbon filtration in all tanks if you cant afford the nice stuff...😊

Detailed video. Thanks.

Needed this...

I just upgraded to a 25 gallon tank. I’ve never used more than 10 gallons. I use well washed river rock … decoded I hated it when the water clouded up… I bought new and washed it!! It went cloudy with the first feeding, I waited two days had clear water, on the first feeding it went cloudy… I’m blaming not knowing a high volume eco system or something … I’ve never ever had troubles with 10 gallons or less

My son dumped a container of food into my small tank. I tried to get most of it out but of course I did not get it all. I have been changing some of the water every few days. The tank is cloudy but getting better. The tank is fully planted. What could I do to make the tank better?

Most aquariums do not have the necessary conditions for the right bacteria that will eliminate nitrates to exist. Plants or water changes are what are available for most aquarists to rely on for eliminating nitrates.

never had a cloudy tank more than 48 hours when new are i have disturbed the bottom which clears after 2 hours a good filter the answer

I finally got some neon dwarf rainbows it took so long to find

I used to use a homemade water polisher that I learned from Joey the DYI King. And it did work great

thank you so very much!

2:39 Are the “red cheeks” on the yellow cichlid ammonia burned gills? I had an ammonia spike and the 3 dead guppies had pink cheeks. Now I’m starting to get paranoid every time I see my pink cheeks in my guppies 😢

Nice video, thumbs up man! I have gotten to cloud an aquarium with no livestock yet in it, just a lot of food in there and I dont want to lose the excess "waste" in the aquarium, just matter conversion. I did raise temps, there is an HOB doing a tiny bit of work and today I did add an airtstone and took a tiny bit of the surface film out with a napkin for surface agitation. I intend to have a population explosion in rotifers/moina/daphnia before I put in the fish, and sadly I don't want to add ramshorn in there because they would wreck all the dead leaves I put for cover for future microfauna, as you may know, a few ramshorn can decimate dead leaves in a matter of days. The bioload atm is immense but I was wondering if the foul smell at the surface was normal since I was lacking flow and an airstone previously(3 days ago) and if it will go away in a week or so. After I cleared some surface stuff I also added new weapons to tone down nitrates, salvinia variants, some hygro i had on hand, hornwort and frogbit to see what does best. I also mixed PH down to drop ph significantly for quicker nutrient uptake, so in all of this madness...can I do better? anyone?

Hi Nick, i have a question, but its not about water, but the aquarium itself. months ago i had a aquarium from glas and i dont have to clean my aquarium untill the end of the month, Nowadays i have a new aquarium from plastic and now very unfortunately i have to clean my aquarium almost every end of the week. What could cause this problem? Is it the material?

I just bought Bristle nose plecos , can I add them to the Real Cloudy water?

Excellent. Very helpful.

My water is clear from cloudiness but has LOTs of floating particles, i have plenty of filteration and fine media but i cant get rid of it, im at my tethers end lol

Very informative..thank you

straight up

Thank you, that was helpful

How about adding snails and shrimp? Would that help as well?

Brilliant tnank you very much👍👍

Starting up with just washed out gravel and driftwood with one bole aegagropila and some vallisneria spiralis also produces cloudy water. Because of the driftwood you want to do some daily water cycles and turned the leds off. My approach doesn’t match with a dark start without plants and 2 months soaked and cooked driftwood. I can’t find any answers for temperature. Not into brewing beer but will definitely be a factor 🍺

Awesome video! I liked the diagram of the nitrogen cycle. Could you add another loop to that diagram that illustrates what happens when there are too many heterotrophic bacteria? That would be awesome, but I can almost visualize what you're talking about

Hello, I recently added sand to my 55 gallon tank and totally forgot to rinse the sand first. Since then I have removed the sand, pump and filters and thoroughly rinsed everything. Keep doing water changes but the cloudiness keeps coming back. Do you recommend replacing the sand and starting over? Have had the tank for almost five years and never had this problem. Thanks

How do I clear a tank after adding aquazyme powder dechlorinator? The tank is empty at the moment

Your tanks are so cool ❤️

My very first tank (when I was a kid) went downhill after I used one of those vacation feeder blocks. It made the water super cloudy and the tank never recovered and my very first fish (a betta) pineconed and died :(

You have some beautiful fish...

this is why you should always add a pinch of flake food in your tank per 30 gallons of water everyday you are cycling. and set your lights to a timer even if you have no plants of fish in there yet.

At 3:00 are those galaxy plecos

The problem is that if you are adding new water to the tank, and the water you add has ammonia (as do many tap water sources), then you're adding more nourishment for the bacteria that cloud the aquarium water. You didn't mention one important thing - UV sterilizer. This alone can eliminate cloudy water within a few days.

Your work is very appreciable & nice l 🌺🌺🌺🌺hope for your great future💯💯💯 Stay connected friend always💐💐💐

Good video great content😊

Just received some rehomed cichlids 4 convicts 1 Texas cichlid ( looking a bit battered) 1 jewel cichlid 4 Jack Dempseys 1 featherfin synodontis 1 bumblebee catfish In a 90 gallon aquarium Anything I can do to make them more comfortable

If I put the filter back in will it clear the water if I stir the sand around a couple times a day? Or should I do the filter with water changes?

Another awesome video

Hi do you or anyone else sell your fish to big pet stores , like petsmart , or local shops

Hi,your channel is really great,I do have few tanks with fish in it,my new aquascape start to be a bit cloudy not much, no any fish in it and I did dark method for a month anyway if I use water from my other tank with fish as a changing water 10-15% do you think is going to stabilize or neutralize white bloom faster

Have 28 gallon tank for 3 weeks and have 12 fish in it. 6 black skirts and 6 neon tetras and have no ammonia no nitrite and no nitrate. If tank not cycled wouldn’t I already have ammonia showing up? I was given a cycled sponge to put in my filter before starting the aquarium.

I just have three mystery snails! I've done water changes and it's still cloudy? It's not real bad but to cloudy I think.

So if brand new tank should we not add fish until water clears up?? Or ok to add fish and ride the Nitrogen cycle?

Fish look good too

What are the silver fish with red fins(!)😍

Hey mate, what’s the purpose of the white pvc pipe in the back of each tank?

Evertime I feed my fish, my water stays cloudy for about 6 hours n I hate cloudy water. I bought a vacuum for gravel and the green killer machine to help, I hope it helps

Do you know Dr. Kevin Novak? I only ask because he is using the material in this video in a not so favorable manner in his recent video.

I got a sponge filter with sand subtrate. Theres no chances of clear water with a sponge filter right? Its only a 21 litre

Off topic, nearly half way thru your video, is a black fish with sparkling blue, what kind of fish is that, please?

So awesome. Where in Aus are you located?

Is there a way to use a growth medium like agar and test my water to see what kind of bacteria I have? What about viewing it under a microscope?

I have had a NITRITE spike, done a water change (50%) and can't get it to go down. How do I fix??? I have live plants, one betta, 6 ghost shrimp and 2 snails in a 20gal.

I have this bacteria bloom issue, i recently did a 50% water change and is was improved then 24 hrs later back to being as bad as before and loss of 6 fish. It is a new set up. I am curious if its due to my water systems softener? I have an extremely high PH that I have to condition the water down to 7.0 before I can change it.

Hey I have a question I put some “Safe”Detoxifies Nitrite & Nitrate power in my Aquarium it made my water cloudy it’s been bout almost 5 days water is still cloudy what can I do to get that cloudiness out it didn’t do that until I added that stuff in it what can I do to remove it. I can send you pictures if so thanks John

Ty I really appreciate that info ...way easier then adding chemicals and cheaper ..

I didn’t add any fish or food in my new tank yet and it’s still cloudy. Should I do something before I purchase the fish?

U a good boy Nick 😊🐶

Can you clean you do a water change twice a week. I want to do a water change twice a week because of algae Will it hurt the fish

Hi there thank you for your video this is very helpful Just wondering if I keep checking 20% water every day do I need to add water conditioner as well Thank you Jason

The current solution would be to sell my Rosy Barbs.These creatures not only ate all my snails but also uproot my plants on a nearly daily basis on the search for food.(And no they get enough food, about 10 out of 66 fish are 'fat'.Its impossible in a community tank to feed equal.).So its been cloudy because I have to replant and disturb the soil.(I didn't had a problem before I introduced 11 Rosy Barbs.)

What kind of rainbow fish is that with the red fins ?

i have 1 month old tank i have bear buttom aquarium 30L on the 3rd week of the month i add fish tropical now its i month my aquarium i have weve maker also i dont know why my water is little bit cloudy. when i add fish one fish is dead in the morning. when i put water i wait for 3 weeks to put fish on my tank. but i never do water changes already. when you add water did you first condition the water?