I Need Help With My Tank, Constant Problems.

[Jeff000]

Ok I have had this tank for almost a year now, and the fish are doing great as far as I can tell.
But I have some problems, mainly, with how the water moves. I have a spray bar at the top of the back pointed forward, I have tried it up a bit down a bit, and several others, and the water still doesnt seem to do well. The pick up it high, I dont know how to get it lower. I have an Eheim canaster filter.

The water is green, its not just the picture. I have a background for it (blue) but it looks bad because the water is green. I cant make it go away, I treid the cover with no lights for 3 days and all that happens is my plants die. I have scrubbed the glass, and it doesnt have algea on it, or very little anyways. I have 20% water changes twice a week and still the same thing. I jsut want my water to be clear.

As far as the water flow, I was looking at getting a jet end instead of the bar, seems like its more or less jsut the return hose let lose in the tank, I thought maybe one of those right by the pick up and pointed to the oposite corner maybe, and some how get the pick up about an inch from the bottom.

Bassically I like my tank, but it looks ugly the zebra snails whily really pretty leave white eggs all over the place that are really hard to get off.

 

[Htw]

Hi. The wood in your tank will make the water a yellowy brown colour naturally. It leaches tannins. With the blue background, it may make the water appear green. You could try without the wood, and after partial water changes, hopefully the tank will be clearer. Hope this helps.

 

[d3tained]

Hi,

If you can see particals drifting in the water that have a green color to it then its algi and you need to run a bit less light on it and stop using and firtz if you are using.It will start to clear up as the Algi cannot live.Also if the tank gets direct sunlight this will be the cause.dont let sunlight onto your tank.

The wood in your tank as stated by HTW will color your water but darkbrown and not close to green.It also depends on how long the wood have been in your tank.It can take 2 weeks - 1 year to stop leeching tannins.

 

[demonmagus]

if it is algae you do a blackout on the tank, no light for 3 days I think

after, you could plant it, that would stop the algae because the algae is only there as it can use the nutrients the plants aren't

 

[Htw]

I know the wood doesn't make the water green, it's the colour combination with the blue background that may give it a green appearance. Yellowy brown + blue = green. What colour does the water look when you put some in a bucket doing water changes? If it still looks green, go with the algae problem. I've used a product called nutrafin p clear in the past and this seems to work well. [Well it did for me]

 

[Jeff000]

in the bucket its a green brown. I dont have the background up, the wall is a baby blueish color (gf picked it not me).
The wood has been in there for almost a year, I would say 11 months.

I have dont the cover up with no light thing, and it didnt change anything. I will try some nutrafin p clear.


Any words about the water flow?

 

[love cichlids]

I had that problem with green water also in my goldfish tank. The only way I got rid of it was constant water changes, at least 50% a day and then one day it was gone as fast as it came. I didn't use any chemicals to clear up the water, knew it wouldn't work. It is floating algae in the water that makes it green. Patience and water changes and it will go away. Good luck with your tank.