How Do You Get Rid Of Green Haze??

The green haze you see is most likely free floating algae...

UV lights will kill/remove the free floating algae...

Or you could attempt to cut it off at the source. Your nitrate is quite low, but the presence of ammonia/nitrite may be feeding it. You may also want to check your phosphate levels as phosphates are a common 'food' for algae.


Having bred quite a few fish myself, I understand there is a benefit to feeding fry and baby fish multiple times per day... if you are really putting 6~12 table spoons of food into the tank every day you are setting yourself up for horrible water conditions.


Why so much light? Algae needs light for photosynthesis, but fish only need light to see. So a teeny bit of light is plenty for fish, but algae utilizes light as food. Less light equals less food for the algae...

Possible solutions could be:

- Diatom filter

- UV sterilizer

- Seachem Purigen

- Less light

The cheapest method would be to go with the Purigen and less light. i too had a tank with free floating algae, it was in my sun room. its a 50 gallon and i added 100ml of Purigen to the filter, within a few hours the water went from pea soup to crystal clear. this was about a year ago, im still using the same 100ml to this very day! u can recharge it using a solution of 1:1 water to bleach. just make sure to soak it in water conditioner after the solution bath.

Tropicalfishking;4114448; said:

Could the addition of floating plants remove the excess nutrients??? Or more water changes??

I will cut down on the feeding and remove one of the light bulbs.
Thanks for your help!!

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adding plants and more water changes would be a great start.

Just get rid of it:
http://www.aquariumpharm.com/products/product.aspx?productid=52

Reviews:
http://www.marinedepot.com/Aquarium...s_API_MARS_Fishcare-AP1343-FWADWTWC-4-vi.html

"Comments: This is the greatest product. After about 10 -15 minutes I could see it going to work on the green water and brown algae. I followed the directions exactly...and by morning my 200 gallon freshwater tank was crystal clear. Even the rocks and decorations were free of algae. Absolutely no harm to my fish. In fact they could not see an inch in front of them in this murky green water and now they swim and school happily. This stuff works like magic!!!
Yes, I would recommend this product to my friends. "

RegalAngel;4118388; said:

Just get rid of it:
http://www.aquariumpharm.com/products/product.aspx?productid=52

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I used it more than once and fish started becoming deformed and dying. Snails would crawl above the water line once it was added.

squint;4118484; said:

I used it more than once and fish started becoming deformed and dying. Snails would crawl above the water line once it was added.

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squint;4118484; said:

I used it more than once and fish started becoming deformed and dying. Snails would crawl above the water line once it was added.

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Holy Crap! How much did you use?? You do know your not supposed to pour the whole bottle in... right?

Algae killing additives are notorious for killing anything & everything...