Then why doesn't a bloom happen everytime you do a major water change? I
can understand the regular maintenance water changes, but what about the
times when a major change is needed? (say greater than 50%)

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"Justin Boucher" wrote in message
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I'm sure it will.

The same thing happened to my acrylic tank. Makes you wonder where the
silica actually comes from.

Your tap water! Believe it or not.

Oz

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"Justin Boucher" wrote in message
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I'm sure it will.

The same thing happened to my acrylic tank. Makes you wonder where the
silica actually comes from.

Your tap water! Believe it or not.

Oz

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"Justin Boucher" wrote in message
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Then why doesn't a bloom happen everytime you do a major water change? I
can understand the regular maintenance water changes, but what about the
times when a major change is needed? (say greater than 50%)

I'd say because it's not always present. Silica levels vary from month to
month, year to year in most water supplies, from my experience at any rate.
It builds up in the tank too.

If your tank is new, it will normally happen anyway. Just be patient by
scrubbing and maintinence and will go after about 4 to 6 weeks, then you may
get green algae, as has happened in my case ;)



Oz


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Precisely the same series of events for me. These days my green algae
are hardly growing. I must be doing something right. (^_^;

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Precisely the same series of events for me. These days my green algae
are hardly growing. I must be doing something right. (^_^;

I found the green stuff occurs right after using liquid fertilizer in the
water. I've got it under control/in-balance, sort of - I still have to
scrape the glass every week, but there is nowhere near as much as used to be
there.

I leave some behind for my female sword - she loves pecking at it, and some
times prefers it over bloodworms and flake food.

It grew madly on my remaining rock, but now it's totally stopped and all the
plants I cut back hard because of the intial diatom infestation have
flourished to the point where I am now prunning an binning the off cuts -I
never thought I'd be doing that ;)

Oz

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Justin Boucher wrote:
Then why doesn't a bloom happen everytime you do a major water change? I
can understand the regular maintenance water changes, but what about the
times when a major change is needed? (say greater than 50%)

Because there are other algae and bacteria established in older tanks
that use up other limiting nutrients.

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