RE: Green water

["Mark Pearlscott" <mark@pearlscott.com>]

Bob,

Usually green water is caused by an excess of phosphates.  There are a
number of products sold as "phosphate sponges" if you are interested.
You can also try and figure out what nutrients are out of balance, or if
you have a lot of plant "breakdown" going on in the tank.  Removing any
plant pieces that are dying goes a long way to preventing green water.
Or alternatively, you can get a UV filter as alex suggested.

Good luck, and let us know what works for you.

Mark


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gsas-member@thekrib.com
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> On Behalf Of alex wetmore
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 7:34 AM
> To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
> Subject: Re: Green water
> 
> What worked for me was a UV filter.  They aren't cheap (about $100),
> but no chemicals are involved and they are very effective.
> 
> alex
> 
> On Tue, 18 May 2004, Trish wrote:
> 
> > Bob-
> >
> > I had had this problem as well, and fought it for a
> > several months! Tried everything I could. Water
> > changes, no lights, covered the tank, so it would be
> > in darkens, changed filter media, as a last resort
> > used chemicals....AND they didn't work...... SO what I
> > ended up doing was striping down the tank.....got all
> > new substrate, and all....new filter media, incase any
> > of those nasties were in their....And haven't had any
> > problems since! Now granted mine wastn't a planted,
> > tank, and only had to goldfish in it....it was my 55
> > gallon...But once I striped it down, it was fine.
> > Haven't yet figured out what the problem was....
> >
> > Hope you don't have to go to this measure, for your is
> > planted....
> >
> > Trish
> > --- Bob and Judy Holmes <jbholmes@nwlink.com> wrote:
> > > I'm getting really tired of fighting a recurring
> > > green water problem in one
> > > of my planted tanks and am ready to resort to
> > > chemical warfare. There is a
> > > product available called AlgaeFix that the mfrs
> > > claim is very effective and
> > > is safe for fish and plants. Has anyone had any
> > > experience with this stuff?
> > > Is it available locally? Any info  would be
> > > appreciated. Thanks.
> > > Bob.
> > >
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