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I have a 75 gallon tank with 4 4-6 inch african chiclids, 2 baby chiclids, 2 blue rams, and a chinesse alge eater. All was fine untill my filter broke a few weeks ago, I have a fulval 404 (rated for 100 gallons), I used 2 filters for 10 gallon tanks, this lasted for about 2 weeks, during this time some of my fish developed ich, I treated the tank for about a week. After all of this I finally got the replacement part for my filter in the mail. I fixed my filter, and added strees zyme, and a water conditioner, my water had become cloudy near the end of this ordeal so I added some aqua-clear, but it didn't seem to help. I have done several water cahnges my nitrite level are at about 40 ppm (they were up to 80 ppm), my ammonia has remained a 0 and my nitrates are little if any. I added some "cycle" last week, but the water is still cloudy, I even added some live bunch plants. My water has been a grayish color for about a month
What is going on?
thanks

That would be a bacterial bloom. There are not enough surfaces for the bacteria to populate on without your filter, so they move to the water column. This will subside in time, once all your levels are normal again. They are simply tring to keep up with the extra waste in the water. The best thing you can do is a bunch of small water changes(maybe do 15-20% every day for the next week) until things clear up.

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It certainly sounds like the tank is recycling again.
When the old filter broke down did you the same filter material in the smaller filters? If not did you keep the old filter material alive in the tank. If you did not keep the old filter material alive and just put it back after the repairs all your good bacteria would be dead.

Other than small regular water changes add some stress coat and a live bacteria at every water change.

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i was thinking it was recycling but my ammonia remains at 0, and it been over a month. It is starting to clear up but very slowly.