Help with my tank plz?

Question

ok i have a 150 littler tank (4 foot by 2.5 and 2 foot tall) i have 2 mollies 2 swordtales 2 electric yellows 3 peacocks and 2 baby brasiliensis there to plants a sucker fish and 2 snails and all these fish are still babies none are over 4 or 5 cm long but my tank seems to get cloudy really easy i do 30%water changes every 2nd or 3rd day and have the right airatter and filter for the tank and my ph levels are fine but it just wont clear up i have put algae clear stuff in it still didn't work is there any thing i can do that wont cost heaps

Answer 1

if the fish don't eat some of there food it makes the fish tank go cloudy and mercy  so maybey a little less food good luck with your fish!!

Answer 2

Did you put the tank through the nitrogen cycle? If not, this is what's happening. Its not the pH that you need to worry about, but ammonia, nitrate and nitrite at the moment. Ammonia and nitrite should be at 0, nitrate under 20ppm, anything other than that indicates a problem.

White cloudiness is usually a sign of a bacterial bloom and will occur in uncycled tanks or tanks which have cycled fishlessly and then had too many fish added all at once. As long as the ammonia levels etc remain at the correct levels then the bloom will clear gradually of its own accord. Don't do too many water changes, once or twice a week should be fine provided there's no ammonia reading, a tank can be overcleaned!

Answer 3

Your tank is going thru a bacterial bloom - not harmful to your fish.  This means your biofilter has been disrupted and the bacteria (beneficial ) are trying to keep up.  

Stop doing water changes.  Changing out the water is removing any new colonies of bacteria that is trying to grow.  Keep to the 25%  weekly the water will clear on its own.  Do not use algae clear either.  This adds to the problem.

LET THE TANK RUN.  Only weekly water change, test for any spikes.  It will clear on its own.