1 year in but water still cloudy

[emonemo25]

My system is a 1000L FOWLR tank which has been running for almost a year. Ever since the tank has been running it seems to always have a slight cloud to the water. It’s not very noticeable when looking at it from the front, however side on makes it quite apparent. It can be hard to see one end of the tank to the other when looking through the tank. The tank is 10ft long but I don’t think that’s the issue.

Temp: 26.7
Salinity: 34.9
Ammonia: <0.05
Nitrite: <0.01
Nitrate: 20-25
Oxygen: 6
KH: 11
Calcium: 520
Magnesium: 1760
Phosphate: 1.8
Silica: <0.1
PH: 8

Does any one have an ideas where I’m going wrong ? I know phosphates are high but I wouldn’t expect them to cloud like that and they are coming down with no improvement to the water. I’ve also got a very strong UV running 24/7 so don’t think bacterial bloom.

 

[Koh23]

And that means …

And that means that these values are bit high. I really dont know any salt that out of box provide that values. So, it can be salt issue, mixing issue, some weird thing issue....

Specially on such high mg value.... So cloudy water can be related to that. Or not, but, its worth checking....

 

[Nano_Man]

Where do you place the pads in the sump...? I'm running out of room

Any were you have water moving over it or in a canister as long as water passes through it. Hope that helps