I'm New Here, I Need Help

[erk628]

No problem that's what were here for to help others and learn. I have the same probelm with the one tank I have an air rock in. As long as your filter is causing a little movement on top of the water then the air rock isn't needed if you like it though I would leave it just when you do your normal weekly water changes take a paper towel or something and wipe that off. Tommorrow when you do your next water change you may want to stick the gravel vac down in the gravel once just to see if it bring up some more dark greeen stuff. If not then you can just do a water change without vac the gravel. If darker green stuff does come up id vac the gravel again so you can get that stuff out of there. I have sand so I don't have problems with stuff like that getting through it just stays on top. Keep us updated on the water

 

[razer121]

and can i just add to this.....i ahd this same problem lol, my tanks is now clean but it took over a couple months to finaly sort it!! lighting was my main problem...i think

 

[OldMan47]

Light is a major issue when it comes to green water. I sometimes try to grow some for feeding to my daphnia cultures and can never have any success unless I grow it with sunlight. I can't seem to get enough light over an aquarium to grow any consistently. I have gone as far as leaving tank lights on for 18 hours a day and the green water just fades away over a couple of weeks. When I spike a container outdoors with a bit of ammonia and leave it in full sunlight, the water turns to pea soup in about 2 weeks with a minor amount of my almost clear tank water added as the seed algae to get things going. Light is the only thing I have found that affects it. My summer tub sits outside in the shade of a tree and turns a dark green fairly quickly after being set up. That is no problem for the fish but makes it impossible to see them. When I do a 90% water change a few weeks later, the pea soup look returns in the first week. Water changes dilute it and make it less dark only until the green water has a chance top grow back, and it is fast to do so. The high greenery level is almost a tonic for the fish but I like to be able to watch mine.

 

[betta989]

mabey you can put some live plants in there to clear up the water they never failed me before and you can get some cat fish like those big ones not the ones out of a lake though lol i hoped this helped!

 

[OldMan47]

It might be worth a try Betta989 but goldfish like to eat plants so the old conflict of trying to use plants in an herbivore's tank rears its ugly head there. Actually, there is nothing wrong with the tank as is unless it bothers Clairev.