White Cloudiness to Tank Water

Diatom filters cost a good bit. The Green Water is similar to any other
algae. GW is almost a......phase...... of many, many tanks (including
mine). It shoould clear up in time if you do nothing. A Diatom filter
will fix the problem, possibly only temporarily. I'd fix your tank
maintenance and forget about the GW for now. I built a Diatom type
filter and removed about 75% of my GW, only to have it regrow two days
later. Filtering it likely isn't the fix. Your current filter should do
most of that.

BTW The cloudiness has to do with bacteria and your tank going through
a "mini cycle" I think is the term. That is for the most part bad and
definetely undesireable. It's likely caused my overcleaning the filters
or otherwise destroying some of the bacteria colony.

For what it's worth, I battled GW for like 6 weeks. Trying this, trying
that, probably compounding problems. I think it was NetMax that
convinced me to leave it alone. About ten days later the water went
from totally opaque green, to crystal clear in 48 hours.

Anyhoo. Research what I say. Every tank can be different. You'll learn
something from this I promise.

http://www.geocities.com/spiral_72/Spirals_page.html

On 2005-11-09, spiral_72 wrote:

For what it's worth, I battled GW for like 6 weeks. Trying this, trying
that, probably compounding problems. I think it was NetMax that
convinced me to leave it alone. About ten days later the water went
from totally opaque green, to crystal clear in 48 hours.


My 29G with 65W of lighting was exactly like that. It cleared up all by
itself. I had to use the UV sterilizer on my 10G with 40W. Could not
even see into the tank. I tried being patient with it, but it would not
clear up like the 29G tank.


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Thank you so much for all of the information. The article provided is
excellent and I will definately try it. The stuff is so thick I can't
see more than 1 inch into the tank from anywhere so I'll look into
renting a diatom filter if possible. I don't think I can convince the
Mrs. to allow me to purchase a new expensive toy for the tank after
I've already spent a small fortune on it :-)
If I can't do that, I'll try the 5 day blackout.

Thanks again, I really appreciate the suggestions as I've been
completely frustrated with this problem.

Best Regards,
Kevin

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Thank you so much for all of the information. The article provided is
excellent and I will definately try it. The stuff is so thick I can't
see more than 1 inch into the tank from anywhere so I'll look into
renting a diatom filter if possible.

I don't think I can convince the
Mrs. to allow me to purchase a new expensive toy for the tank after
I've already spent a small fortune on it :-)
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They run about $60 and last for years. :-) They're great for running after
doing a gravel vacuuming. It'll leave the tanks looking they're new
set-ups.
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