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Thanx SuzeeCat That remedy certainly worked all the blue green algae has died off and normal green algae taking over. Just got to do a water change and syphon the dead algae away now, then I can replant the tank. Thanx again :hooray:

Panboy That's definately an amazon sword, not sure of the species though. My Echinodurus Osiris went through exactly the same changes, the large, round emersed form leaves slowly died off, leaving long slender leaves with prominent veins to take their place.

Thanx SuzeeCat. I'll certainly give this one a go. Did you have any problems with the filter bacteria?

Waterloo Kid! You seem to be in roughly the same boat as me right now, see the threads under "blue green mess" and "KN03 supply in uk". The only difference is that my problem is blue green algae not green water. The major cause, I think is the sharp increase lately, in tapwater phosphate...

OK Folks Had a phone call from my local water company yesterday about my enquiry on phosphate levels. It seems regulations have changed recently, which means that it is no longer a requirement to state phosphate levels in tapwater and it appears that there has been a rather large increase in the...

Ok Got my potassium nitrate yesterday, total cost with postage £5.50 for 500grms. Now it seems I have another problem. After reading "Practical Fishkeeping's" review of various nitrate test kits, it would seem from the results, that non of them are anywhere near accurate enough to adequately...

Sorry Stanley Not anymore, I've tried. The manufacturer has ceased making it, acording to my Tesco pharmacy, the only suggestion they had was to try Boots because they use a different supplier.

Just thought this might be useful for anybody needing to find a supply of potassium nitrate (KN03) in the UK. I found some advertised on ebay of all places, cheap too. Just do a search it's supplied in 100grm and 500grm bags. Just waiting for mine to arrive. Hope this is of use

Thanx MrV yes I was wondering. By the way Rowaphos is a phosphate removing resin yes. Well as for obtaining KNO3 it seems the manufacturers that supply most chemists up here in the northwest have stopped producing it, therefore chemists can't supply it. However, I have managed to locate some...

Finally found a chemist who is getting me the potassium nitrate, ("providing", he said, "I'm not going to blow anybody up"). :hey: Also added my diy Co2 setup which is bubbling away nicely, so everything will be in place this weekend. The blue green algae has returned since I did the cleanout...

Hi mrv and stanley Thanx for the advice, MrV I'll certainly try what you suggest and see what happens, although the phosate problem with my tap water still remains. As I said it is over 3mg/l which is very high, I've tried to talk to my water company about this but with little success so far...

Tank consists of following: 48x18x18 50gall tank 2-3 mm gravel substrate with 7 balls clay fertiliser bogwood decor 3 38watt flourecent tubes(1x triton, 1x daylight plus, 1x freshwater) plus custom made stainless steel reflector Fish: 4 small angels 15 cardinal tetras 5 corydoras julii 2 german...

thanx for the advice guys even before the bloom the nitrate read 0mg/l I've checked the kit with the water from my lfs (and that showed 100mg/l) so it's not the kit, water changes don't help since my tapwater tests at over 3mg/l of phosphates and getting kno3 here in the uk is damned difficult...

I've had me 50 gall tank set up for about 3 months and fairly heavily planted with Vallis and Swords. Everything was fine till 2 weeks ago when I got a sudden bloom of blue green algae, after testing all the usual parameters the only thing that seemed odd was the lack of nitrate which...