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Hi i have just done my water change and removed gravel substrate from my tank an it has now gone really cloudy is this normal and im planning to put sand in the bottom tomoz will this affect it or will i have to do another water change
 
I'll bet you stirred up debris by removing the gravel. Siphoning the gravel regularly should take care of most of it, but not all of it. Not that you need to worry about that now that you've removed the gravel. The cloudiness should settle eventually. Once you have sand, you just need to suck debris from the top of it. I'm not sure you can siphon sand. If it's not cloudy from stirring up the gravel, it could be a bacterial bloom, which will also settle on its own.
 
By removing the gravel, you've removed beneficial bacteria. This can cause mini-cycles and bacterial blooms.
 
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