Green Water

[mikem499]

Hi everyone, I need a little help with this one. I have a 90 gal tall tank that I have had up for a little over 9 months. I bought a new 48 in light for it(was using two 24in and added a blue light to it). I aslo cleaned and changed out the charcol and filters and added some pouches to remove ammonia to my fluval 404. I also did a 1/3 water change out. About 2-days later my tank started to turn green and know I can not even see the back glass. The fish seem all right, especially my 11 loaches, but I want to be able to see them also. Any help will be appreciated. Mikem

 

[QHowes]

Hrmm doesnt sound like you did anything out of the ordinary to cause this problem...is it algae? a simple algae scrubber can take care of that.

 

[thecichlidaddict]

Does the tank get any direct sunlight?

aslo cleaned and changed out the charcol and filters and added some pouches to remove ammonia to my fluval 404.

Did you have a problem with ammonia that you needed to add this stuff?

 

[Cheese Specialist]

Could it be a bacteria bloom (although I think that's usually whitish) or free swimming algae?

I think it can be bad to change water and cean filters at the same time because of what could be killed off but I m not entirely sure if you did enough to be this. I think if it was this you could get a spike of somekind. But I am not sure so please do not quote me!

If the later I think that regular water changes should clear that up. Maybe someone else can help more.

Good Luck

 

[mikem499]

Hi everyone, I need a little help with this one. I have a 90 gal tall tank that I have had up for a little over 9 months. I bought a new 48 in light for it(was using two 24in and added a blue light to it). I aslo cleaned and changed out the charcol and filters and added some pouches to remove ammonia to my fluval 404. I also did a 1/3 water change out. About 2-days later my tank started to turn green and know I can not even see the back glass. The fish seem all right, especially my 11 loaches, but I want to be able to see them also. Any help will be appreciated. Mikem

This tank gets no direct sun. I have already done an additional water change out. The PH of the tank was sitting around 6.5. The water added to the tank has a PH of around 7.5 to 7.8. There are 5 Sevrums, 1 Jack Dempsy, 1 med placo, 1 tiger loach,2 clown, 4 blue loach, 1 yoyo loach, and 2 as yet unidentified loaches new to the market here in Houston tx. I changed two major things beside the filter clean out. the lighting has increased and I added the amonia media. The water was cloudy before it turned green. it has been a little over 3-weeks.

 

[JoKeR]

This was a mistake I DID u know were the top of the glass is see if any algea is growing there and wipe or maybe u have live plants and there green LOL so water and green equals GREEN WATER

 

[mikem499]

I do not have any plants in this tank and ya there is algee growing on the cover glass but I have always seemed to have a little growwing there. Mikem

 

[thecichlidaddict]

Well, I don't understand why you added the ammonia media if you didn't have an ammonia problem, but anyway...

Have you done any tests for nitrates or phosphates?

 

[Shizat]

Tell us how long you keep your light on during the day for the fishtank and also how high your nitrates are. Since you recently switched out the light to a more powerful one and algae thrives on light then that might of promoted the huge increase in algae.

 

[mikem499]

I did some more water testing and my PH has dropped to 6.32. I low nitrates and the amonia has finally lowered. I have a piece of wood that is slowly breaking up also if that helps. I believe I leave the light on to long. I turn it on around 9 in the morning and turn it off around midnight-a little long I know. I am going to get a timmer for the lights.

 

[mikem499]

Ok everybody I have had the lights off except for about 10 min a day for feeding for 3 days now and still no change. Does any body have any suggestions about how to get rid of the algee water?

 

[freshwatergal]

I am having the same problem in my 46 gal tank. I did a complete cleaning last saturday, and by sunday afternoon the water was green again. I have wrapped a towel (actually a dark sheet) around the tank, as I have heard this will help kill the algae off since there is no light source. I'm going to leave it this way for at least a week or so and see what happens. I hate it cause I can't see my fish. (Maybe a week is too long!?) Anyway...try that and see what happens.

Tiff

 

[Shizat]

well if all else fails throw a double layer of 5% tint on the tank.

 

[mikem499]

Has any one had any experience with the liquid algee destroy. Does it work and what will it do to my tank water and fish if anything?

 

[mikem499]

Well I tried the algee kil and my tank after 2 hours is now clear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!