Re: HOT Magnum filter

[welenofsky@comcast.net]

Sounds like the tank is cursed! Maybe sterilize it and anything associate with 
it with bleach water? Except the fish, of course.
Susan

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> In a message dated 6/30/2004 7:42:59 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
> mark@pearlscott.com writes: 
> If you are fighting green-water, then most likely you have a nutrient 
> imbalance (if you are growing plants). Usually green water appears in 
> Nitrate limited tanks, and so Nitrates are actually ADDED to remove the 
> green-water. It seems counter-intuitive unless you think about how all 
> the macro-nutrients interact with the growth cycle of plants. 
> 
> Mark 
> no plant in this tank history of this tank is I had it in storage for a 
> couple years because of a move and I was trying to sell it no sale got tired 
> of 
> storing it so I set it up in my spare bedroom ( which fyi has very little 
> sunlight exposure) cycled it and put a couple paradise fish in it that were 
> inteneded for my pond this spring. water turned green and I couldn't get it 
> to 
> stay 
> cleared when I got some new fish and tanks at the auction I ook it down got 
> rid of the gravel and left the tank sit then re-set the tank up in a 
> diferffent spot with different filter sand and fish water clear for three 
> days 
> then 
> green has stayed that way since at least the end of april if not longer I 
> have tried to change water,the diatom filter, the algea detstroyer treatment 
> , 
> and phosporus remover to no avail. 
> but in the last 2 days the water has begun to clear with no change except 
> I tried to set up the other diatom filter must have scared it LOL. this is 
> the 
> first time in a lot of years of fish keeping I have had green water I hope 
> its over. 
> Elaine 
> 
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