Because concerns about low O2 have been brought up. Removing / not using glass covers allows for better gas exchange.
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First thoughts if your tank looked like this..
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Because concerns about low O2 have been brought up. Removing / not using glass covers allows for better gas exchange.
Unfortunately sometimes on the internet people start guessing and throwing out generic advice in threads like this. Lights off can be an effective intervention for dinoflagellates, you are not dealing with dinos, sometimes advice gets over generalized....
IMO/IME leave the lights on and buy, borrow or steal (no don't steal, just kidding) a UV. Things should clear up in a few days. Just be sure you run the right flow rate for the UV, if the flow is too fast through a UV filter it won't be as effective if at all.
No harm in taking steps to reduce nitrate and phoshpate, but UV is the thing that works for this problem.
this is good advice.. definitely just buy a skimmer lol that is some redneck thing you got there haha
In my opinion, John is right. water changes and carbon wont do much for an algea bloom until you start attacking the problem. The UV will kill the algea cells and help stop the reproduction but some type of nutrient export will be needed after the UV starts killing off the cells. The DIY skimmer may work but I would also use water changes (10% should be good enought for a couple days) until it clears up. Run the UV with low flow (like JOhn mentioned) for maximum UV exposure to the algea...if your pump is too powerful you can by a valve to reduce the flow. Ive used the Turbo Twist UVs in the past with good results.
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Thanks for everyones help who had replied,
currently i have a bio cube uv v2 that i had gotten off therra978 the other day. Thanks again buddy,
seems to slowly be working, today i can finally start to see my rock work outline threw the greenness.
Does anyone know what had caused this in the first place? was it something i did or did it just happen for no reason as funny as that sounds
currently i have a bio cube uv v2 that i had gotten off therra978 the other day. Thanks again buddy,
seems to slowly be working, today i can finally start to see my rock work outline threw the greenness.
Does anyone know what had caused this in the first place? was it something i did or did it just happen for no reason as funny as that sounds
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Update
here is an update on my tank, looking better just a little cloudyness left, i was surprised at how fast the UV took care of this, i could almost watch it slowly start to get clearer after an hour of putting the UV in my tank.
If anyone ever has this same problem i had i highly recommend a UV, works great
Anyways i think i discovered my problem.. it has to be there water im getting from the lfs. im gonna mention something about it next time i go there. thats the only thing i can think it came from
So here is a pic from last week and tonight a few hours ago.
Looks much better now
Before-8/29/12
Today-9/6/12
here is an update on my tank, looking better just a little cloudyness left, i was surprised at how fast the UV took care of this, i could almost watch it slowly start to get clearer after an hour of putting the UV in my tank.
If anyone ever has this same problem i had i highly recommend a UV, works great
Anyways i think i discovered my problem.. it has to be there water im getting from the lfs. im gonna mention something about it next time i go there. thats the only thing i can think it came from
So here is a pic from last week and tonight a few hours ago.
Looks much better now
Before-8/29/12
Today-9/6/12
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all right ..hoew them eyes feeling lil better now correct .
good job ....
good job ....
Looking good. Is that the UV attached to the front of the powerhead?
If so, are you sure it's not flowing faster than reccomended for that UV unit? (obviously it's working, but it might work even better if the flow is slowed {assuming it's too fast now})
If so, are you sure it's not flowing faster than reccomended for that UV unit? (obviously it's working, but it might work even better if the flow is slowed {assuming it's too fast now})
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Yea that is the UV right there in front connected to the powerhead, im not sure how much gph this ph is pushing but it has a little adjuster thing on it that i turned all the way down so i think its way less then the recommended 300 gph for the UV,
Also im gonna have to go back to start using distilled now that i think i found the culprit of the green water, lfs...
Also im gonna have to go back to start using distilled now that i think i found the culprit of the green water, lfs...
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i second that ...they use their own water to
