Help !

The first thing to ask, is the water pure white or greenish? Greenish is an algal bloom, white could be algae or most likely a bacterial bloom.

Since you have just done some rearranging, a bacterial bloom is the most likely. These bacteria feed on organic chemicals and if you've disturbed the substrate you will have released a lot of organic chemicals - decomposing uneaten food, bits of dead plant and fish poo.
Bloom bacteria multiply very fast; faster than you can keep up with doing water changes. The only option is to wait it out I'm afraid. Eventually they will run out of food and die.

In the meantime, they will be using oxygen in the water. Bloom bacteria don't harm fish directly but they do make the water oxygen deficient. Sometimes enough to kill fish.
If it doesn't already, I would move the filter so that the water outflow makes ripples on the surface. And if you have an air pump with an air stone, or even a deep sea diver, use it as that will churn the water up even more.


And although water changes won't help get rid of the cloudiness, they will help remove anything that we can't measure for that ended up in the water after the tank redo.

Thanks for the reply guys, I've put in an air stone now and no the background of the tank was black when I got it :-) hopefully the water clears up I've taken out most of the plants that have died but not all  of it because I can't see it :-( I hope no more fish die, there may be more dead fish in there but again I cant see all of them and some may be hiding under the wood.

Everything in the tank is new gravel, wood and the rocks, I just kept the filter running in a bucket with about half of the old aquarium water to try and avoid cycling the tank again, good news though the tank is starting to clear up I think :-) and the fish look like they are doing better now the air stone is in there

Yep washed the gravel pretty well, and yea I'll keep an eye on the water parameters :-) I'm hoping there is no more dead fish when I can finally see to the back of the tank if there unter the wood I may not be able to them out :-(

That's for you help sue :-) I'll post a picture when it's all cleared up and I've replaced the plants that died.

Nope it don't work :-)

Nice tank  I'm a big fan of that branchy style wood.

I can see a blue crowntail betta and what look like a couple of pygmy cories. Do you have any other fish?

Wood is crazily expensive...

I can't see the picture for some reason @Robert

It's working now 

Looking good btw    very natural looking.

Ok pics fixed.


The first two pictures didn't show for most becuase they were a link to a picture profile page and not the actual url of the images.


The second, used http instead of https.


Should all be fine and dandy now.


added: It seems that site hosting those images, does odd things with the image urls, as in they work sometimes, and sometimes not.


If you can resize images and upload them directly, then that's better for all concerned

Hi guys

I've got some white fluffy stuff growing on the wood I put in the tank can't remember if this happened last time and cleared up on its own.