Pea Soup Water
Jim Conklin
planted tank. 2 Discus, 10 assorted neon's, 4 oto cats and three Cordy ones
together with a dwarf flame gourmie.
The fish seem and look healthy, but even with 30 to 50 % water changes
every three days or so I can barley see through the side of the tank. I
started this one in Feb of this year, cycled it and had a BEAUTIFUL setup
with crystal clear water. My pH (out of the well) is about 6.2, soft
water, and moderate hardness: seems perfect for the fish I keep. (85F)
Marineland 350 HOB filter and Fluvel XL2 both which I change. With the
water changes I use Flourish Trace, Excel and Comprehensive. (I stopped
using the iron supplement only because I thought I migh be overdosing with
chemicals.) My other though is to jack up the CO2 to 2 to 4 bubbles a
second to 'weed out the alge. As you can see I'm grasping at straws!!!
The algae seems to be the 'pea soup' kind, its not hanging on my plants
too much or encrusting my glass. The aquarium is NOT near a window and I
keep 2 65 watt CF bulbs on about 12 hrs a day. (Lately I turned this down
to 10 a day.) My water IS high in phosphates but I've had that before with
no major problem. I've even done the water changes using RO water to no
avail.
I remember a link on the net somewhwhere showing the various algae
descriptions and things that could be done to alleviate problems. Any help
appreciated, because as now I'm thinking of tearing down the whole thing and
starting fresh.
If you need more info from me just post here or at my email:
hogen10atyahoo.com. Thanks again!
Jim C
Gill Passman
thinking of:-
http://faq.thekrib.com/algae.html
Cheers
Gill
Steve
> ... I
> started this one in Feb of this year, cycled it and had a BEAUTIFUL setup
> The algae seems to be the 'pea soup' kind, its not hanging on my plants
I'm no expert, but I had green water for a while when my plant aquarium
was new (within the first month or two). The green water went away by
itself.
Your setup sounds perfect, and I'd just do routine maintenance and wait
for the green water to clear up by itself. That is, if the fish seem to
be happy and unstressed :) .
I've read that green water (suspended algae) is related to nutrients in
the water column, similar to greyish cloudy water (suspended bacteria).
The old Innes book discusses both.
Steve
Jim Conklin
the fish don't seem to mind!!
Hey, mybe I'll connect that XL3 I have in storage waiting for my new 95
gallon tank! (More water being pumped thru the filter.) I'd prefer to stay
away from those Diamtom filters. I had one years ago and it was nothing but
a pain in the butt to use. The instructions were so unclear! (Like my
water!!)
Thanks again people!
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> Hey, mybe I'll connect that XL3 I have in storage waiting for my new 95
> gallon tank! (More water being pumped thru the filter.) I'd prefer to
> stay away from those Diamtom filters. I had one years ago and it was
> nothing but a pain in the butt to use. The instructions were so unclear!
> (Like my water!!)
The Vortex DE filter is very easy to use and will remove the suspended algae
in no time. You don't have to take them apart to clean or recharge them -
just backflush at the sink. Then mix the powder with water, hook the hoses
over the side, get siphon started, turn it on and pour the watery DE earth
down into the intake. Whatever misses will get sucked up. Nothing cleans
water like a DE filter.
If you add a few Tbs. of fine activated charcoal to the DE earth it'll even
remove the yellowish color from the water.
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leave it alone - as you've noticed fish don't care - and it
setles everywhere to the point where if you clean it up
it just comes back. That is for each piece of alage you see
there are 5 pieces you can't see hiding in rocks, gravel,
decorations etc.
I get rid of it by filtering the hell out of it with a diatom
filter, then stirrig up all the crud and repeating until thers
is no mess made by stirrig things up any more then I change 80%
of the water for two days then 50% per day for a week, then down
to 50% per week.
Flourish excel will kill it, but then you have a lot of dead algae
to deal with that rots and does you no good at all.
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