green water any magic cures

[chrismaher1505]

hey guys just been on my hols to the states for two weeks which was awsome saw a lot of floridas natural side which was beautiful BUT.........
left my mum in charge of feeding. BAD IDEA it turned out as like any mother does feeds up her children til they cant take anymore. hence ive had a nice algae bloom so my tank is a nice shade of murky green.

i have made a 50% water change
turned all lights off 24 hours or so ago
and have completely covered all the glass with towells to allow no natural daylight for 24 hours.

as far no change.

so any ideas?

or should i just ride it out?

help me out here guys as i have never come up against this in 2 years of fish keepin as i take pride in my usually crystal clear water.

 

[maynardwix]

hey guys just been on my hols to the states for two weeks which was awsome saw a lot of floridas natural side which was beautiful BUT.........
left my mum in charge of feeding. BAD IDEA it turned out as like any mother does feeds up her children til they cant take anymore. hence ive had a nice algae bloom so my tank is a nice shade of murky green.

i have made a 50% water change
turned all lights off 24 hours or so ago
and have completely covered all the glass with towells to allow no natural daylight for 24 hours.

as far no change.

so any ideas?

or should i just ride it out?

help me out here guys as i have never come up against this in 2 years of fish keepin as i take pride in my usually crystal clear water.

You sound like you are on the right track. You basicly need to ride it out, and keep up what you are doing. In a day or so, do another smaller water change (30%) and keep those lights off. Depending on how much natureal light the tank gets, you should keep the towels on it to really starve the algae. If the problem is still showing no signs of getting better in a few days, again do another small water change and still keep the lights off. Make sure to keep the feedings to a minimum too.

Where abouts in Fllorida did you go? I love it here, did you do any fishing while you were here?

 

[chrismaher1505]

no i didnt do any fishing, but my main fish experiences while i wa out there were

kayaking in wakiwi springs saw me some big florida gar and snapper turtles and gators of course.

swam with dolhphins in key largo at theatre of the sea

snorkeled out in the ocean off of the keys over in some of the reefs seeing some big 5 footer baracuda

went to big als aquarium superstore in tamarac lol

went to the florida aquarium in tampa

and saw the huge aquarium at epcot which was cool

is that everything urm..................

oh and shamu lol

 

[carcrazy]

I had green water in my tank and I tried no feeding and covering the tank completely to block all possible light along with 50% water changes every second day. I did this for a week straight and when I uncovered the tank it looked better but was green again in a few days. It is difficult to completely kill all the algae this way.

I bought a UV sterilizer and after 24 hours the water was crystal clear. I think that is your best option and it also kills parasites like ich in the water as an added bonus.

 

[Yanbbrox]

You need to be careful with uv as it can kill the good bacteria in your filters, make sure you add it as the last thing before the return.

Your going about it the right way without one, it may take up too a week with it covered and regular water changes to clear it, all the best

 

[chrismaher1505]

how does such a gizmo work lol

 

[Yanbbrox]

how does such a gizmo work lol

Basically, just a chamber that has uv light bulb in it, they work better with less flow rate, it kills off the algae that's causing your green water but as I said before you can get away without one. Keep it as dark as possible and it can't grow or live for that matter so water changes clear it out, it should be clear in a week or with a 20% change a day and zero light.

 

[JeninOK]

adding purigen to the filters can also help absorb the extra waste and nutrients and prevent its return.

I just battled a green water outbreak and ended up resorting to API algaefix. I used it at half dose and it cleared the water in about 30 minutes, but I made sure to do a water change that same night and rinse out my filter media really well with echlorinated water since the algae die off could starve the oxygen in the tank.
I didnt use old tank water to clean the media because I figured it would still have remaining spores in it so i treated new water with prime instead in this case.

 

[Riv D]

You need to be careful with uv as it can kill the good bacteria in your filters, make sure you add it as the last thing before the return.

Your going about it the right way without one, it may take up too a week with it covered and regular water changes to clear it, all the best

How in the world are u going to kill bacteria that's in your filter bed with UV light that's in a contained unit?
I could see if you had a UV bulb hanging above your sump but in a contained unit???

 

[Yanbbrox]

How in the world are u going to kill bacteria that's in your filter bed with UV light that's in a contained unit?
I could see if you had a UV bulb hanging above your sump but in a contained unit???

I was generalizing and speculating on the filter set up which I know nothing about but as you asked you could add the light anywhere on an unknown setup.

UV tends(again generally) to be associated in the pond environment and small cheap pond filters sometimes have a UV light enclosed in the filter that someone could end up with just by buying one just for the light.

how does such a gizmo work lol

That would indicate limited knowledge of the things(no offense meant there Chris) I was merely warning about going out and potentially buying such a thing by mistake without understanding problems that could occur