Success with carbon dosing, normal to scale back dose drastically?

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So I have been ramping up carbon dosing over the last 5 months, started with 40 nitrate and now at 0.0 according to my hannah checker. My water is considerably cloudy as of late to the point I can hardly see the back wall. I was dosing at one point 150ml per day in my 500G and scaled down to 65 but after 2 weeks still at 0 nitrate. Would dropping it as low as 15-20ml daily help clear the water up? My assumption is that I have too much bacteria in the water causing the cloudyness.

Everything still looks healthy and I still grow algae (slowly) on the back wall over time so I know my nitrate isn't critically low.
 

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