Help Please... Pretty Please

Get Ready! 🐠 It's time for the....
FishForums.net Fish of the Month
🏆 Click to enter! 🏆

godzuki

Fish Crazy
Joined
Jan 13, 2005
Messages
299
Reaction score
0
Location
coatbridge, Scotland
hi all im after a bit of help/advice...

i'm give you a quick tank history... I got the 30 USG about 2 years ago.. it taken me around a year and a half to have a tank where i wasn't having fish die a few a month... granted I did make many mistake at the start ie doing a 90% water change once a week and also cleaning the filter media once a week in tap water... nearly all the fish died. then there was the time wehn I restocked with neons and sailfin mollies.. oh yeah and 3 Tiger Barbs... yeah the sailfins and neons didnt last long...

but i've now got a 100% healthy tank.. when I also first got the tank my two kids picked what went in it they picked a massive castle a sunken ship and red, yellow and neon green plants.. so after 2 years I decided that I want to decided when went into the tank... so i got rid of the castle and ship and all the plants replacing with 50/50 fake and real plants... they came in ther own incase soil and stuff as I didnt want to start playing with the gravel and stuff...

the problem is(FINALLY) that the water is getting very... well... green with in a week... theres no smell coming from the water like its stagnant and i've had no fish die but i'm worried that theres something wrong and i want advice about wether this is normal or what...

all my stats at normal btw...

sorry if the question sounds obvious but i really dont want to start having a play about again after the tank behaving for so long or should I say mis-behaving for so very very very long...

thanks
kiss kiss
godzuki

ps.. also in tropical convo,
 
Get a 9W UV filter and one week later wave ‘goodbye’ to the algae! Amazing, see here:
http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=169325
http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=174876

“The green water in your tank is an indication that there is something not quite right, a visual feedback that you can gauge against. Adding UV sterilizer will take this visual feedback away. However, I do not think there is something inherently 'wrong' (<-read dangerous for your fish / plants) with your tank, just an imbalance somewhere (e.g. too much lighting, not enough plants, blah blah blah).

Now if 'getting the balance right' does not matter to you then so be it: Great, stick a UV in & move on to enjoying your fish.â€￾
 

Most reactions

Back
Top