Water green and cloudy

Lindsayd32
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My betta Blu died last Wednesday and I got a new Betta Casper on Saturday. Casper is currently in my half gallon tank that I used to transport my bettas and I am really anxious to get him my ten gallon tank. I was cleaning my ten gallon tank on Sunday night and then refilled it. No matter how hard I tired I could not get all of the broken down proteins from Blu’s bubble nest out of the gravel so I knew that were still some pieces in the gravel when I went to refill it. After I filled it all up I sectioned more of the proteins out of the water. I added three tablets that are in Complete Water Care Kit by Tetra along with stress coat by API because the one tablet is only for five gallons so I treated the rest of the water with the stress coat. As the tablets fizzed they turned the remaining proteins pieces blue. I suctioned as many out as I could and then left the water to get to the right temperature over night. The next morning the water in the tank was a light teal color. I thought it was weird so I let it set until the night to see if the color went away. It was still the same color that night so I added another littler of water to the tank because I thought that maybe I put many chemicals in it and again let it set over night. Well today that water is now cloudy and still a light teal color. I don’t know what to do. I want to put Casper in the bigger tank but I don’t know if it is safe yet. Has this happened to anyone else or does any know what is going on? I will included pictures of the products I used and what the tank looks like now. I also added a few drops of the betta water renewal by Aqueon
 

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Lindsayd32
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Also this is Casper is anyone was curious.
 

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Tol
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I would empty the tank, rise the gravel & decorations well and then put them back into the tank. Fill it back up with clean water and add the stresscoat + to it. Do you have a filter & heater running on the 10 gallon?
 
Lindsayd32
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I do have a heater and a filter but I didn’t add them back in yet because the water started to be different colors. I normally don’t add them back into the tank until an hour before I add the fish to the tank. Do you think adding the filter will help with getting the remaining bubble nest pieces out because I rinsed the gravel for an hour when I cleaned it on Sunday?
 
juniperlea
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It looks like bacteria bloom and it's not too bad. I'm a newbie, so someone else out there may know better. If it is bacteria bloom, you could run a UV sterilizer, but I may be wrong, as I've read the sterilizers kill the good bacteria as well as bad. I would ride it out and do nothing. I plopped about 50 community fish into my 75 gallon one day (long story), and knew I'd have to deal with massive bacteria bloom. I didn't do anything for about a week because I was re-cycling (from scratch). Lost my tiniest H Rasbora. Poor little thing. If your tank is fully cycled, water changes help a great deal, I think????
 

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ojdgtjc
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yu could siphon the gravel, if that doesn't work, make a 100% water change and clean the gravel and see if that works at all
 

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Tol
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Personally I would skip all the other stuff besides the Stresscoat +. Aside from ferts for my plants, I have always used plain tap water with Stresscoat + or Prime and nothing else and it has worked out fine.
 
Lindsayd32
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Thank you all for all your help and advice. I probably will just stick to the stress coat plus and the PH tablets that I use to use before getting the complete kit from now on. After Losing Blu I just wanted to be extra safe and careful with Casper but look where there got me lol. I just took out a gallon of water from the tank and replaced it with a gallon of fresh clean treated water and I can already tell a little bit of a difference so hopefully that will help. I also google the complete water kit and there are other people that said it had turned there water blue for a few days so hopefully that is the reason. Thank you all again and I will keep you all posted on the progress of the tank!
 
Tol
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Good luck. I have always stayed away from things that try to buffer pH to a certain level. The local stores my fish come from have roughly the same pH as my tap, so the fish are already pretty well adapted to it. As long as it is stable and not bouncing all over the place it should be fine. If you don't have a test kit already, you may want to invest in one. The API Freshwater Master Test Kits last a long time and are pretty accurate.
 

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