crazy tap water and gravel chemistry!

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captain.cerezo

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what in tap water could make my rocks colour come out or unleash the mighty tanis from store bought drift wood.

heres the catch...

The gravel is green.. the driftwood has been used for a long time without turning my previous water green.. I suspect that filling it with my nasty tap water in my new apartment makes something in either the driftwood or gravel turn the water green?

does anyone have a better explaination?

thanks :)
 
Is it by a window? Could just be the reflected light actually changing color after hitting the green gravel....You have any pics?
 
Green Gravel may lose its color over time, but it shouldn't make the water a different color. I'm guessing you just have green water, which is single celled algae that drifts around. Usually this is due to lots of light and high nitrates. Is the lighting any different? Have you been doing as many water changes? I would test the tap water for nitrates, because its possible that there is some in there, which makes keeping nitrates low a lot harder.

If your tap water is okay, do larger WCs, test your tank water for nitrates, and see what happens. Turn the lights on for a few hours less each day. If for some reason it just won't go away, a UV Sterilizer will fix it.

good luck
 
2004exrider;1822674; said:
By saying new apartment im gonna guess that this is new gravel also. If so, new gravel will stain the water for a while. So the green water is just the dye from it.

Jimmy
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only significance of the new apartment is different source of tap water.

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the nitrates makes the most sense.

I left the lights on but the water turned green after like a day after filling.

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do you guys buy new gravel 24/7? that **** would get expensive *****.
 
Test your tap water and aquarium parameters, that may give you an explanation. Any time you have unexplained issues in an aquarium it's best you test anyway. Your tap water can have ammonia, nitrites or nitrates in it.
 
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