Water Keeps Going Green!

[phishyphil]

Okay 2 Weeks ago my 50 Gallon Tank started to go cloudy and green, and deepend in colourm Naturallu water change was carried out (50%) which i now know probably worsens the scenario, and hey presto the water was clear, for the whole 3 days before it went greenish again.
My Readings see amonia at 0, nitrite at 0, nitrate quite high, and ph at 7.5.

I belive it now to be algae bloom, but how can i get rid of this once and for all??? I'm going insane looking throught forums and posts for a fix.

I will be upgrading to a 75 Gallon Tank next friday so was wondering if i should just wait till then, and transher all the filters to the new tank and add whole new water to this tank and leave the old water? and start again with the new tank. Will this work?

Please offer your advice : (

 

[marieukxx]

Are your lights on a lot? is the tank near a window?

 

[The chilly dipper]

Are your lights on a lot? is the tank near a window?

as marieuk said, if you have too much light or natural light going into your tank then this will be the cause matey.

exess nutrients and too much light.

calm down on the feeding and only have your light on for no longer than 6 hours at a time.

 

[MBOU]

You answered your own problem in a way...

Your high Nitrates are feeding the algae...

Green waster is essentially a diatom algae, all algae needs to grow is Nutrients (Nitrites, Nitrates, Phosphates and metals like iron etc) and light.

-keep lighting to 6 hours maximum
-make sure tank isnt in direct sunlight from windows etc
-stick something in your filter to remove your excess nutrients in the tank (phosex, nitratex, rowaphos, clearmax etc as well as carbon)

-how much are you feeding your fish? and what fish have you got? how often do you normally do waterchanges/how much water?

 

[The chilly dipper]

You answered your own problem in a way...

Your high Nitrates are feeding the algae...

Green waster is essentially a diatom algae, all algae needs to grow is Nutrients (Nitrites, Nitrates, Phosphates and metals like iron etc) and light.

-keep lighting to 6 hours maximum
-make sure tank isnt in direct sunlight from windows etc
-stick something in your filter to remove your excess nutrients in the tank (phosex, nitratex, rowaphos, clearmax etc as well as carbon)

-how much are you feeding your fish? and what fish have you got? how often do you normally do waterchanges/how much water?

we will have a good algie thread yet

 

[phishyphil]

Whoa quick response

Okay
hers a few answered Q's...

I Do not have the tank near a window

I feed once a day in the morning, and only feed small amounts till they stop eating.

Water changes 1-2 weekly.

I light the tank on a timer for 9 hours per day.

Fish i keep are as follows

8 Neon Tetras
1 Large Baloon molly
1 Sailfin molly
1 common Plec
1 fancy tailed guppy

Any of this help accumulate a soultion to my conundrum? its so unsightly.

Because i am upgrading next week, should i just use brand new water in that tank then? and leave this algae water? will that work?

 

[marieukxx]

9 hours is a lot. If I leave mine on that long it goes green very quickly. My tank is covered in algae in a few days when I leave the light on that much. Now I've had to cut right back and just switch my light on at about 5pm till about 10pm. And I don't get the algae problem.

I would have my lights on that long and the glass would go all green and everything very quickly. Clean it and then cut the lighting back to about 5 or 6 hours a day and see what happens. That's what I did and now it's clear.

 

[MBOU]

Hmmm... your Common Plec wont be helping any... they eat lots of algae but it comes out ten times more the other end!!

I would test your tap water! Around near me the nitrates are over 80ppm some days and phosphates are off the scale.

I would definately get more decent filter media, cut your lighting down by 3 hours and feed less. Nonw of your fish need much food, one small pinch a day and 1 or 2 algae wafers a week for the plec.

 

[The chilly dipper]

Hmmm... your Common Plec wont be helping any... they eat lots of algae but it comes out ten times more the other end!!

I would test your tap water! Around near me the nitrates are over 80ppm some days and phosphates are off the scale.

I would definately get more decent filter media, cut your lighting down by 3 hours and feed less. Nonw of your fish need much food, one small pinch a day and 1 or 2 algae wafers a week for the plec.

yep light is a massive reason for this.
cut down indeed.

high nitrates round me too but luckily just green spot algie.

 

[phishyphil]

Hmmm... your Common Plec wont be helping any... they eat lots of algae but it comes out ten times more the other end!!

I would test your tap water! Around near me the nitrates are over 80ppm some days and phosphates are off the scale.

I would definately get more decent filter media, cut your lighting down by 3 hours and feed less. Nonw of your fish need much food, one small pinch a day and 1 or 2 algae wafers a week for the plec.

yep light is a massive reason for this.
cut down indeed.

high nitrates round me too but luckily just green spot algie.

Wow really, that little light? thought i was being mean by not letting them have light like normal days theyd have in the wild. so a small amount of food, cut the light and hopefully jobs a gud en

 

[StandbySetting]

Do a couple of large water changes and reduce your lighting, green water is caused by excess light and traces of ammonia, increase your circulation if possible.

 

[woody88]

Have you got Bogwood in your tank?

Is the water definetley Green or is it a tea colour?

 

[The chilly dipper]

Have you got Bogwood in your tank?

Is the water definetley Green or is it a tea colour?

You thinkin of tannins?

 

[phishyphil]

Have you got Bogwood in your tank?

Is the water definetley Green or is it a tea colour?

You thinkin of tannins?

Hi nope no bogwood in the tank, i did have (about 2 months ago, but the ph kept dropping super low so i removed it as i heard Bogwood can lower ph (which is now perfect).

So definatly green

Really frustrating me now.

 

[The chilly dipper]

do all the above m8