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My 20 gallon with goldie is looking hazy not green water or anything just kind of foggy. I moved some things around and there was some debris loosened I've been cleaning the filter mesh the last two days. I'm hoping it's just debris and after a few daily maintanance on the floss it'll clear up. It is in the front window but the shades are always closed. Do you know what might be causing this? And is it bad for my fish?
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It's probably a bacterial bloom (a mini-cycle) from massing with the filter media. Test your ammonia and nitrite to make sure they don't get too high. When both are 0ppm again the bloom will subside soon after.
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Omg glad I posted about it. I didn't mess with the bio beads or whatever but by rearanging decorations and stuff it kicked up some mulm. Will keep an eye out and do water changes 
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If you do 25 % water changes for a few days, I think that the water will probably clear up. If not, I would put them in a cycled tank until you figure out the exact cause.
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Okay so it's been a few more days I've done 25% partial water changes. The color has turned green, so I do have green water. What do I do or does it slowly go away like diatomes? It is in front of our livingroom window where it does get sun. We keep the shades closed but they are cloth so they still get light. I do have a background but light still comes through. Would black cardboard behind that help to get rid of too much light. The hood is completely covered with the hood and light. Any advise would be helpful, and is this bad for fish or is it something that people get annoyed with because it's not as pretty?
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This may not clear up on its own. This just about proves that it was a bacterial bloom, and the excess ammonia and/or nitrite is feeding the algae. I had this happen in a tank that had lysol used near it (never, ever do that...I learned the hard way  ). I had to cover the tank completely with black garbage bags for a couple of weeks to kill the algae, and then because of the lysol, I ended up having to slowly change out all filter media and sand. Throughout the process I needed to do frequent water changes to deal with the ammonia that became dangerous once the algae started dying out. You shouldn't have as much trouble as I did though as long as no disinfectants were used near the tank.
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Yeah we know not to use those types of products around the tank. As I do remember that happened to you and it was quite a lot of work. I'll do a water test today to see what my levels are. I was thinking it would probably be because of too much sunlight and not an ammonia spike (i'm hoping at least 
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Sunlight alone won't do it. Algae needs a food source, like ammonia, nitrate, or phosphate, and excessive algae blooms are caused by excessive food.
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