Cloudy Water and Aluminum

[jma1_nemo]

My water has remained a milky/cloudy. I have been shocking for 5 days. My CL holds over night. I have vacuumed and cleaned the filter (cartridge type) and on the off chance that my filter had a hole that I could not find, I put my old filter back in last night. I have been running my pump/filter 24/7 for 10 days. 2 days ago I tried adding some clarifier and that seemd to have no effect. At the moment I let my FC drop to 6.5 because it is supposed to be 100 Degrees + today and we need to get wet. I am kind of at a loss at what to do next. I have some Algaecide, but have not added any yet. Is the cloudyness possible algae? Dead? or Alive? My ALK was 140 at last test. Somewhere on a post it seems someone said high ALK could contribute to cloudyness. Can anyone confirm?
Thanx Again.

[mbar]

If you post a full set of numbers we can help you better. Cloudy water can be from high Alk along with high ph and high calcium. Post FC, CC, TC, PH, ALK, CA, and CYA.

[jma1_nemo]

I just did all tests. Here are the results:
FC=3 CC=0 PH=7.2 ALK=120 Cal=100 CYA=25
Water remains cloudy.

[mbar]

Your numbers are perfect. One other thing I thought of, maybe there is some air getting in the water somewhere. Sometimes little air bubbles can make the water appear hazy. The other thing you can try is to add some muriatic acid, turn your return jets up to aerate the water - it will bring down the alkalinity and raise the ph in the process. Even though your alkalinity is good, sometimes acid will clear water, especially with metals, and I don't know if the pie pan did anything, but it sure is suspect if that is when the water turned cloudy. This is just my suggestion. Sometimes acid will clear the water. Just don't add too much, since your ph is at 7.2 now. You want to only add enough to bring down the ph to 7.0. You can use the bleach cal to see how much you need. hope this helps.