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Ok so, my tank has just cycled a couple of days ago, PH is showing around a 7.6 on the first scale and a 7.4 on the high range PH scale. The ammonia is showing 0. The nitrite is showing 0 and the nitrate is showing 10-20ppm. I still have a little bit of a milky cloudiness to the water and I don't know what is causing it. It's been that way for a couple of weeks. I use no substrate. I have tried api accu clear with no success, so I'm guessing it's not suspended particles. I'm lost on what to do. It's a 125 gallon with an FX6 filter. Filter was cleaned a coue of days ago also.

Also, what is the suggestion on water changes after cycling? How much and how often?

Anyone able to help me out on this one?

Was the bio media cleaned a few days ago as well?

Do you have carbon in the filter? Fine polishing pad? I change 25-50% weekly. Are you using carbon filtered water to do your changes? How do you clean your filter?

Filter is brand new. It is setup like the fx5 recommendation on the thread here. I do have a carbon media bag in there. I have cleaned it once. Used the aquarium water to clean everything. I also replaced the carbon with new. I did not use carbon filtered water for the change but I did use prime on the water.

Well, I will have to let someone else weigh in on this. Sounds like your doing everything like you should. I'm not sure why your water is still cloudy?

Thank you for assisting. I can't figure it out myself. I feel everything is right and all the readings are good.

These things usually clear up themselves.

I sure hope so because I'm really confused by it.

Yea, I stopped taking readings. If your tap water source is good and you do regular changes, I wouldn't worry too much.