Water not clear-Foggy

[WHITEBEAR26]

I have a 110 gal that in the last 3 1/2 weeks has gone from clear to a very fine greyish white foggy look. Now here's what i''ve tried to do--I have 2- 3 stage filstar canisters that i completely cleaned and changed media on 3 times so far, did about 30% water changes about 5 times, put water clarifier to try and clump the fine particles , all the fish in the tank is doing fine- about 5 large severums and a mixture of about 10 other medium size fish. Water checks out fine. I have some crushed coral in with some other substrate. I'm in the process of changing the substrate out, doing it slowly as to not crash the tank.Any ideas out there, I'm not a rookie at this but i've tried about everything i know. AND THE WATER IS STILL FOGGY??? Any help or advise ? Thanks.
THE BEAR

 

[Gaddisautoglass]

Did you keep any of the old filter media when you cleaned The canisters?

 

[Rodders02]

Is there uneaten food lying in the tank?

 

[Frank Castle]

I have a 110 gal that in the last 3 1/2 weeks has gone from clear to a very fine greyish white foggy look. Now here's what i''ve tried to do--I have 2- 3 stage filstar canisters that i completely cleaned and changed media on 3 times so far, did about 30% water changes about 5 times, put water clarifier to try and clump the fine particles , all the fish in the tank is doing fine- about 5 large severums and a mixture of about 10 other medium size fish. Water checks out fine. I have some crushed coral in with some other substrate. I'm in the process of changing the substrate out, doing it slowly as to not crash the tank.Any ideas out there, I'm not a rookie at this but i've tried about everything i know. AND THE WATER IS STILL FOGGY??? Any help or advise ? Thanks.
THE BEAR

your tank is too clean.....you killed all you Natural Bacteria.....these are BENEFICIAL bacteria essential to the ammonia cycle. I have heard this problem from a number of people and it always ends up being the same thing - cleaning too MUCH. Just leave it alone and let the Beneficial Bacteria do their jobs.

What are you water parameters? Ammonia? Nitrate? Nitrite? PH? etc

COPY/PASTE this , fill out the questionnaire and we'll do our best to help, but I think I already know the problem
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/to-help-you-we-need-a-little-help-please.671346/

 

[WHITEBEAR26]

I've heard the tank is to clean possibility before and it may have some merit. The only thing is I've been doing the same cleaning routine , water changes filters etc. for about 2 years on this same tank. nitrates & nitrites probably 0-20, &0.5- ph 7.0 and the water has always been hard.
Replaced and cleaned all media-sponge filters, just rinsed the bio balls , Just strange ? I've been letting do it's thing since the last filter change about a week ago and am getting ready to do my weekly water change tomorrow. My 240 in another part of the house is crystal clean then I look at my 110 gal and wonder what the hell??? Thanks much for the input and I guess I'll just ride it out and hope nothing crashes , still going to change the substrate being it's almost 3/4 of the way done. Thanks again

 

[pops]

nitrite and nitrate 2 dif things, nitrite needs to be 0, nitrate should be only one registering. sounds like your tank keeps getting reset into a mini cycle, so something changed in your cleaning, IE rinsing your media in tap water or replacing it, or your filtration is not enof to hold the bio load.

 

[Covetous]

+1 sounds like a bacterial bloom, shifting around the substrate realising alot of gasses can easily get you a bloom. Like mentioned above watch your parameters but once you get the substrate back settled it will likely clear up. I had a old tank this happened to that was set up for years. I replaced the sump and even with switching over the bio balls I went through a mini cycle.

 

[ragin_cajun]

Read this thread right below very carefully. It has links to articles elsewhere on the Internet describing what's probably happening in your tank.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/on-going-problem-with-an-unclear-tank.667412/page-2

Stop cleaning things. Stop changing things. Get a test kit and measure ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, and pH--post that. If you get high values for any of those, then get a second test kit and test again to be sure.

Reading your response above....you're reading NITRITES? Nitrite should be "0" all the time. What is ammonia reading?

 

[WHITEBEAR26]

I have a test kit. nitrite-0 nitrates- about 10, actually 0-10 . ph-7.0 Bloom if that's what it is started before I started to change the substrate. I'll have to get a test kit that includes ammonia tomorrow. Would it help to put some quick start into the tank to give it a bacteria boost?

 

[Frank Castle]

I've heard the tank is to clean possibility before and it may have some merit. The only thing is I've been doing the same cleaning routine , water changes filters etc. for about 2 years on this same tank. nitrates & nitrites probably 0-20, &0.5- ph 7.0 and the water has always been hard.
Replaced and cleaned all media-sponge filters, just rinsed the bio balls , Just strange ? I've been letting do it's thing since the last filter change about a week ago and am getting ready to do my weekly water change tomorrow. My 240 in another part of the house is crystal clean then I look at my 110 gal and wonder what the hell??? Thanks much for the input and I guess I'll just ride it out and hope nothing crashes , still going to change the substrate being it's almost 3/4 of the way done. Thanks again

can u just COPY/PASTE the questionnaire like Administration requests and answer the questions?