Re: [AGA-Member] Green Water Problem

["Robert Flory" <wyogeo@hotmail.com>]

> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:31:01 -0500
> From: stephane jousset <sjousset@hotmail.com>
>
> Is it Diana Walstadt who believes most aquatic gardeners give up because 
> of
> algae trouble?
> Bingo, as far as I'm concerned. I've been battling a bad green water 
> problem
> for weeks and tried everything by the book (water changes, no food or
> fertilizer addition, water fleas, duckweed, keeping tank in complete 
> darkness
> for 4-days and then some, phosphate/nitrate removal pads in the filter,
> clarifying chemical (TetraAqua)).
> Dazed and confused by my repeated failures, I've finally resorted to a 
> complete
> water change a few days ago (didn't clean the filter) after netting out my
> fishes. Alas - a suspicious, faint green halo is slowly rising like a 
> ghost. In
> one word: HELP! before I drive a sledgehammer through some amorphous
> crystalline material.

I have found that a flocculant Accurel F (works better than most) and 
cleaning my filters daily helps while I am trying to clearup the underlying 
cause.  Accurel F is some sort of semi natural black water extract.  Make 
sure you rinse the filters.  They'll plug up otherwise.

My greenwater seems to be triggered by letting the CO2 and ferts slack off. 
ie being lazy

bob 
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