Green water !

[john arnold]

That is the magic of true “green water” which is caused by more of a photosynthesizing bacteria than an algae 😉

As long as the tint is minimal & not “pea soup”, life will pretty much carry on as per usual for tank inhabitants

You can increase water changes for aesthetics but otherwise I’d leave most things as they are IF system is working for your plants & livestock

Any mcrofiltration system (especially using diatomaceous earth) is effective at clearing the “cloud”
Eventually the GW will disappear just as it arrived (most common source is your tap water but I’ve had GW in only one tank despite using the same tap water etc for all tanks)

You can also try water clarifiers (such as Seachem Clarify - read the fine print & dscussion forum commentary before using any clarifying agent) BUT these can dramatically affect livestock if water is soft, very soft ...
(I lost shrimp & fish within minutes being a naive (murdering) idiot ...at that time, there was no warning re soft water)

GW at the pea soup stage will limit oxygen availability for livestock AND if killed rapidly with any Claryfying type (floculating) agent will rapidly remove even more oxygen from aquarium water - perform multiple water changes first to remove most of the GW, before adding any floculating agent

Thanks for that good advice, yeah i have a uv sterilizer coming next week so guess just need to be patient as it is minimal just annoying as plants are really good

 

[zozo]

Yeah thanks i heard that, havnt seen amy for sale round here at all tho

Place a tub of water in the garden in a partialy shaded spot. Put in some leaflitter.. And wait.. 🙂 Daphnia will eventualy appear, ussualy it doesn't take very long..
Water fleas ‘mail’ their eggs from pond to pond..


🙂

 

[john arnold]

Place a tub of water in the garden in a partialy shaded spot. Put in some leaflitter.. And wait.. 🙂 Daphnia will eventualy appear, ussualy it doesn't take very long..
Water fleas ‘mail’ their eggs from pond to pond..


🙂

That is super cool info thanks, i have a big pot with water lilly in so ill use that, the uv has cleated up the green water so im happy now
Cheers

 

[azawaza]

Run a UV filter? That would sterilise the algae spores, me thinks.

Told ya UV could work 😉

 

[john arnold]

Told ya UV could work 😉

Yep cheers, took about 6 days and sweet as a nut now, happy chappy