aa green killing machine

Took twenty minutes for the green light to come on this morning, is that normal?

It's only three days old. Think I'll take it back...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's used for clearing algae right?

If so then take it back and get some store credit to spend on something else. In most cases I believe algae is caused by an imbalance in the tank. Be it too much or too little light, too many nutrients and not enough etc.

This is rather vague - sorry.

I fixed my algae by simply fitting a mains timer to the lights so that they're on 8 hours a day... the guys on this forum should be able to help with finding your cause I have crystal clear water and the only algae I have are on rocks which I leave for the snails and barbs to pick at. All I use is a standard filter nothing extra to clear the water

I was losing fish, though it was worth a try.

It did I think clear my water.

Out of interest, what did you do to find the root cause of the fish issues?

Also, what is that plant in the back left corner of the tank? me likey

I'm not sure what it was, had lost 5 corrie in a little over a week, then my pearl gourami died by something that looked like cotton mouth. Nothing has died or acted weird since.

The plant is wisteria, the plant on the right was just a small tip I had in my ten under some 13w 5000k cfl's. It's as big now as the plant I pinched it off of. The rest is doing much better now after I changed from the kit leds to a 48" t8 buld

Ah cool. Will look into buying them.


Ok so tank issues... Was your tank fully cycled? Apologies if it sounds condescending but theae questions must be asked.

Whats the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate levels? And what is the pH, GH and KH?

It could be adding that quantity of cories pushed your ammonia levels a tad high if its a new tank. Or they may have been a dodgy strain

Edit: sorry ive taken this way off topic. Id advise taking your uv thing back for store credit, and create a thread to help diagnose the tank issues.

Once rectified use the store credit to restock the tank

For now monitor your ammonia and nitrite to ensure they stay at 0 and keep up with the water changes. In a help topic you need to post the ammonia, nitrite, pH, GH, KH, size of tank, all tank inabitants, substrate, ornaments, plants, feeding schedule, water changes... Everything.

Get everything written in the original post and people can help quickly

I took it back...

The water is very good 0-0-15.

I didn't notice the discoloration around the gill area just lookin. I'm hoping it had just injured it's mouth chasing the corys to death... it. was just fine the evening before. Wish I had looked closer at it before I flushed it...