What Happened to my nice clean aquarium.

[busdriver]

I don't think this has ever happened before.
Did a water change on Friday night, have an aquaclear hob 110, changed the charcoal bag (well rinsed) it was fine yesterday, this morning after coming home from Church found the tank like this.
Checked water parameters
ph - 7
ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 0

The tank has been set up since last February or there abouts.
The only thing I added to the city water was 'Prime' to remove chlorine, etc.

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[beowulf]

Looks like some sort of bactaria bloom....

[babblefish1960]

I'm with beowolf on this one, the other parameters we need to know would be, how long has the tank been set up, and when you did your water change, are you on city water and did you use a water conditioner? It is tied to your water change somehow, in my opinion. Not to worry though, it will clear up with time.

[darkdep]

If it's a "whitish" haze, it's likely a bacterial bloom as previously suggested, and *should* be relatively harmless...and it should clear up within a day or two. 

I would have suspected an ammonia spike first, but if that param is 0 then it's very likely bacterial.  Keep an eye on it, but it should be ok.

[busdriver]

Thanks all.

[Baldrick]

If its any comfort, I've had the same thing happen a couple of times recently. Both times it cleared up, but it took several days.

[Rudy00]

did you happen to over feed or add any organics to the tank?

[PoisonJello]

I know exactly what happened....

You didn't do enough praying at church 

[Baldrick]

So that's it!! Now my Catholic guilt is kicking in....

[new2H2O]

looks like a bacterial bloom to me..i had one in my 55 and panicked but thanks to bigdaddy (who came over to check it out) my nerves were calmed...it'll clear up, mine took about a week and no harm was done.

[beowulf]

How are things now?  When it happened to my brother he added some extra carbon in a sac in the tank and it cleared up in a couple of days.

[kyonis]

I also think it is a bacterial bloom. I have a 5g planted with teh same problem in my room. did small/larg water changes. changed filter. but nothing help. took it to LFS for test and it was all good. I was told to wait on it.

I have been waiting on it since it started over 3 weeks a go. hope it is much faster for you.