Bacteria Bloom/Water Change

Just a quick question about my 10 gallon..

It has been set up for about 3 weeks now and the water clouded up for the first time this week..I'm assuming this is just a bacteria bloom..should i do a water change during this period or let the bloom run its course before doing so

Thanks,
Ivan

 

I don't know much about freshwater so hopefully someone with more experience with it will chime in. However, if this were a marine tank I would just let it's run it's course.

 

I was just at my lfs and asked the owner about it..he said that it wasn't bacteria and to just put some accuclear in and it would clear up in a few hours..? i always thought the cloudiness of a new tank was bactera..idk..i dont know much so maybe i'm wrong

 

unless you add substrate or stored substrate, it was a bacteria bloom in my opinion. if it was just stirred up cloudy ness you would see it clear up in hours most likely

i would just check your parameters, if the look good leave the tank alone maybe add some carbon it will help remove some of the nutrients in the water column before the bacteria can use it. if the params look bad wc it

right now my goldfish tank is cloudy too because i just moved them over from a smaller tank, and the gravel was dirty. it has probably become 50% clearer in the hour since i finished

 

it wasn't substrate cloudiness..nothing has been touched..that would mess up the substrate at least..it just got cloudy a couple days ago..I did a water change a few hours after it got noticeable and it did nothing..so i'll let it go for a few more days then i may give that accuclear stuff a shot..he showed me his planted tank that got clouded up just like mine (i saw it the other day) and he used it and today it was crystal clear

 

the pregnancy test?
jk
the acccuclear does sound like a good product to use if it is indeed suspend waste and not bacteria. it says it works by causing clumping of microparticles to form macro particles

 

hahaha maybe i should have been more specific