Dr.fish Posted March 16, 2003 Share Posted March 16, 2003 i have a 30 gallon reef tank and its really cloudy.Its green the people at the fish store said that its was elge in the water and to keep my lights off for four day intill it go's a way. Is this what i should do. Link to comment
chvynva916 Posted March 16, 2003 Share Posted March 16, 2003 Cloudy green water sounds like macro algea reproduction. Do you have any macro in the tank? Link to comment
Dr.fish Posted March 16, 2003 Author Share Posted March 16, 2003 here's what the tank looks like and no i do not have macro in the tank can you tell me what that is Thanks Link to comment
Lebowski Posted March 17, 2003 Share Posted March 17, 2003 This is his friend, . Brad, send me the pics. The tank is really cloudy, it's algae no doubt. It's probably from him keeping on the lights too long and the tank being next to a window. I told him to try running some carbon, don't know if it would help, but he kept his filter off. I'd also think that running a skimmer would help a bit. They can take some nasty stuff from the water. would water changes help at all? Link to comment
Xavier Posted March 17, 2003 Share Posted March 17, 2003 Was it anything like this? http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread...p?threadid=9098 Link to comment
Lebowski Posted March 17, 2003 Share Posted March 17, 2003 holy ######. pardon the french. It's similar to that, not as green (last time i saw it, a week ago) it's not THAT green, But it is a nice light green. It's just very cloudy, you an still see everything in the tank, but it is still green. By 100 gal water change, how long did it take you to do that? How would we do this? Would it cycle again? I'll be running my skimmer on brad's tank once I come over sometime so that will help. What kind of filter media would work for this in a tetratec? Any brand names etc? Thanks! Link to comment
Xavier Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 yeah.. it starts out that way.. slightly green murk... then it turns into HELL I tell you!.. Skimming and a micron filter... Marineland has a HOT (hang on tank) filter with micron cartidges.. I reduced the amount of light to the tank, started skimming and filtering with the micron cartidge.. The 100g was over the span of about 3 weeks... It didn't need to re-cycle, it was just an over-abundance of phyto growing rapidly in the increased amount of light... currently the tank is clean, but I'm continuing on the reduced light for a bit longer to attempt to starve it... it seems to be working.. I haven't had to use the micron cartidge in about a week... Filter feeders should in theory also help to control it once you've got the initial problem under control.. so I'm starting to move some corals back into the tank slowly... if it gets worse, I would recommend placing your corals in a hospital tank temporarily... my zoos survived, but some began suicide missions to find better placement in the tank... which is kind of interesting, because now I'm finding single polyps in odd locations that kamakazeed off the zoo mat and into a rock crevase... but I degress... just keep an eye on it.. don't let it get bad.. start by reducing your photo period and see if that helps... Link to comment
Lebowski Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 here, the green stuff is pytoplankton? Link to comment
Xavier Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 "Phytoplankton are free floating flora which convert inorganic compounds into complex organic compounds. This process of primary productivity supports the pelagic food-chain." Link to comment
Bucket o Chum Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 Try skimming or a few cheap live clams from a local supermarket. But don't listen to my pseudo-advice. Link to comment
Xavier Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 also, raise the temp on the tank a degree or two.. slowly.. Link to comment
Dr.fish Posted March 18, 2003 Author Share Posted March 18, 2003 what would changing the temperature do to help my problem Link to comment
Dr.fish Posted March 18, 2003 Author Share Posted March 18, 2003 i bought a bottle of pro-clear and did a five gollon water change and it has helped alot Thanks for all the help Link to comment
Trig Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 IF-------- If you have access to a Diatom filter....I have a System 1 - dem babies can clean dmn near anything out of the water column in an hour or 2 with powder changes. always used it on FW, though. Anyone know if it is ok on SW? They really KICK-A$$ Link to comment
Xavier Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 Generally higher temps and higher pH help to inhibit the growth of problem algae... I don't know about a diatom filter, but used a micron filter and worked well too.. but again, that doesn't solve the problem, it just cleans the results of the problem.. Link to comment
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