I have an Aquarium Mystery to solve

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Do your substrate cleaning with the W/C.

At the rate it's going for you, a UV sterilyzer http://www.petsmart.com/global/prod...24&itemNo=9&Ntt=uv&In=All&previousText=uv&N=2

Cheapest I can find, especially with a pump.

This may be the fastest cure for you.

In the mean time, you can try the NO light approach I described...there is usually enough ambient light in a room to support life for a few days.

Dr Joe

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Well.... I'm obviously not going to give up. I'm going to do the complete blackout... for five days... just to be safe. If it's Still Green (I hate it.... Still green still green still green lol) I'll have to get that. Will keep yall posted!

Thanks for all your help!

--A girl who would just like to see her fish again
 
Update***

I kept the tank covered from Sunday night to Thursday night. You were right. NO GREEN! I've never seen the tank so clear; it looks like the fish are floating in midair :D Question being - is it going to come right back now?
 
well it depends if the ultraviolet light is coming indrectly from you window yes it will come back in time , you could cover the widow with tin foil to stop it..

didnt ask this before but whats the spectrum of the bulb in that tank.
 
Keeper of the Ropes;652802; said:
Update***

I kept the tank covered from Sunday night to Thursday night. You were right. NO GREEN! I've never seen the tank so clear; it looks like the fish are floating in midair :D Question being - is it going to come right back now?
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Congrats!!!
You did good :thumbsup: :mwave: .

Now for the question...Yes, unfortunately it will...BUT if you can block alot of the light till the UV gets there, it should keep it down. Tape some paper to the sides of the tank as a temp. measure. I paint the sides / back & bottm of my tanks (glass, so I can clean it off if I need to) to limit light and aggression (fish don't seem to type to swim thru the glass as much when it's dark).

Again... GOOD WORK.

Dr Joe

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I have been told, That carbon some times will get rid of green water. SO you could put a lil carbon in and keep the lights on. But I'm not 100% sure if it would work.
 
Hi Keeper,

Great to hear that the first step (eliminate green) was successful. :thumbsup:
My follow-up suggestion would be a good gravel vac, solid water change and no feeding for a week. After that, clean the filter, resume feeding, and see what comes ... hopefully nothing green ;)

I hate to do this, but I have to educate (inner urge): UV light does not penetrate windows. Has anyone who discussed UV here ever gotten a sunburn or even tan indoors? I assume not. Let's just refer to it as light, not UV light, okay?

Thanks and good luck,
HarleyK

ps
As compared to your tank, which gets too much light, the pic in your avatar could use a better illumination :D
 
HarleyK;653216; said:
Hi Keeper,

Great to hear that the first step (eliminate green) was successful. :thumbsup:
My follow-up suggestion would be a good gravel vac, solid water change and no feeding for a week. After that, clean the filter, resume feeding, and see what comes ... hopefully nothing green ;)

I hate to do this, but I have to educate (inner urge): UV light does not penetrate windows. Has anyone who discussed UV here ever gotten a sunburn or even tan indoors? I assume not. Let's just refer to it as light, not UV light, okay?

Thanks and good luck,
HarleyK

ps
As compared to your tank, which gets too much light, the pic in your avatar could use a better illumination :D
Click to expand...


sorry harley but you're wrong light passing thru a window will create algae growth just because you dont get the spectrum that causes sunburn dosnt mean windows block uv..

Ordinary glass is partially transparent to UVA but is opaque to shorter wavelengths while Silica or quartz glass, depending on quality, can be transparent even to vacuum UV wavelengths. Ordinary window glass passes about 90% of the light above 350 nm, but blocks over 90% of the light below 300 nm[1][2][3].


more info here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet
 
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