More Plants?

[Puffer punk]

Hi everyone
Never got any replys to my last thread ( bar one) so my water turns out to be slightly green if i added more stem plants would this help to get rid of it?

Cheers and HELP!

 

[riverman444]

Maybe.

How long has your tank been set up?

 

[Puffer punk]

bout 3/4 weeks

 

[Puffer punk]

bump anyone

 

[qwikimpss]

It's just an algae bloom, a lot of new tanks go thru it. Fast growing plants (Hygrophillia Polysperma is a good one) will help soak up the nutirents that the algae is using and should take care of it. Water changes will help too.

 

[Puffer punk]

Hygrophillia Polysperma cant find any of this up here but got a few new stems today so hopfully it will start to go away

thanks for your help dude

 

[George Farmer]

You can get cheap plants from Greenline - http/www.aquaticplants.eu.com/cgi-bin/ss...polysperma&TB=A

 

[jimbooo]

i have always had a tinge of green water for the first 4/6 weeks when setting up. the tank just needs to find it's balance. personally i'd just keep doing 15% water changes every other day and it'll soon clear up.

direct sunlight is a big cause of green water. is the tank by a window by any chance?

 

[Puffer punk]

yh but no natural light gets into my room

 

[jimbooo]

what lighting do you have on the tank as in wattage and what type of tubes (brandname or ideally K rating)

 

[Puffer punk]

3x 30watt T8's 2x tri plus and one beuty light

 

[jimbooo]

ok so 90 watts, sorry i should have also asked for tank size in US Gallons. i'm trying to work out if you have a high light tank or not.

how many gallons is it?

 

[Puffer punk]

50us galls will be adding another 1/2 30watt T8s soon

 

[jimbooo]

okay so 1.8 WPG already. quite normal to have green water at first with that sort of lighting. wait until the water clears up before adding any more light. as i said just keep doing water changes and it will clear up

 

[Puffer punk]

it cleard up about 3 days ago so i think ill be adding my lights tomorrow and then next week monday hopfully ill be getting a new co2 bottle so that i have a presurized co2