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My water in the 55 gallon tank seems to be getting a bit cloudy. Not like super bad but just a little. I have the new xp3 running too. I have 4 fish in the tank and 4 turts. What could be causing cloudy water? I have had the tank up and running for 3 weeks now. I just did some water tests today and these where the results-
ph- 8.0
amonia- 0 ppm
nitrates- NO3- 0 ppm
nitrates- NO2- 0 ppm

And I can also see little tiny pieces of things floating around in parts of the water.

EM – I know what you mean. It seems like when I get an entire new set up it just doesn’t fall in line like I want. With reading like that the only thing you can do is 50% water changes until you get it working. Another thing I would do is if it doesn’t clear up, with the next water change or two, I would change out all of the carbon. There may be some substance that the carbon will clear up.

Mikee may be on to something with the carbon. But it sounds like typical 'new tank syndrome.'

Otherwise, particularly dusty carbon or under-rinsed can cause the same white/grey cloudyness.
I just experienced it with my mature tank and mature filter by adding a 2nd new filter with a lot of new carbon. And I never add new carbon right before I have company expected. Seems like if it's not the dust clouding the water it's the tiny air bubbles it intially releases causing noise.