Hazy water after water changes

[FishPower]

you could test the water params during the bloom that way u can verify if it is a mini cycle.

i usually get a slightly cloudy tank right after a large water change and extensive gravel vac on my 75 gal exodon tank. So i know my tank is going through a mini cycle

 

[BlackDats]

I have alsways been advised not to clean filters in tap water, as it takes to much goodness out of them, so never done so.
i have a fluval fx5 and started draining the tank through that, after 3 weeks of doing that my water started going really cloudy. Now i have gone back to taking water out of the tank and 2 weeks of doing this the water has gone back crystal clear.

 

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you could test the water params during the bloom that way u can verify if it is a mini cycle.

i usually get a slightly cloudy tank right after a large water change and extensive gravel vac on my 75 gal exodon tank. So i know my tank is going through a mini cycle

I don't get much variation in the perams. I'll drop to from 5 to just below 5 in nitrates. If it is a mini-cycle I can't detect it with my API master test kit. Nitries and Amonia stay at 0.

 

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I have alsways been advised not to clean filters in tap water, as it takes to much goodness out of them, so never done so.
i have a fluval fx5 and started draining the tank through that, after 3 weeks of doing that my water started going really cloudy. Now i have gone back to taking water out of the tank and 2 weeks of doing this the water has gone back crystal clear.

So would you hand wash the filter media in used tank water (say in a 5 gallon pale?). With the bio-wheels I figured most of the benifical bactera would have been on the wheels and not on the filters. Is that a wrong assumption?

 

[BlackDats]

Most of the good bacteria is on the bio-wheels, but obviously the big parts of crap get caught in the sponges first, which only need a quick swirl (not ring them out) around in some used tank water. The bio-wheels or whateve you are using should really never need to be touched.