[APD] Notes from a non tecnical user, Green Water activity

[Andrew McLeod <thefish at theabyssalplain_freeserve.co.uk>]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:01:31 -0500, Walt Wilson <wwilson at triad_rr.com> 
wrote:

> I have had my aquatic plant tanks running for a year or so now, and have
> found this to be the source of information that made it possible for me 
> to
> go in that direction. But, I have stumbled onto something, that may not 
> be
> news to many, but it was a surprise to me, especially in the extent of
> activity. My LFS ran out of Prime, a water conditioner made by SeaChem 
> that
> works extremely well with all of their other products, which I use almost
> exclusively for my planted tanks. Without giving it much thought, I 
> bought a
> less expensive but non the less well circulated brand of conditioner to 
> do
> my partial water changes for the week. Within twenty four hours I had
> beautiful green tanks, the free floating algae was thick to say the 
> least.
> After giving it some consideration, I went to another FS a bit further 
> away
> and purchased the Prime conditioner, did another partial water change the
> next two days, and it all went away. I cannot give you the minute 
> details of
> what happened, but I suspect that the Less expensive brand of conditioner
> had some rather undesirable chemical reactions that fed the algae and
> created a huge bloom in my tanks. All I know for certain is that I do not
> intend to change any of the variables to that extent any time soon, as 
> the
> response was swift and not to my liking.
>
> Walt Wilson
>
> My tanks are as old as I am, and thats pretty old for a tank

If the water contained chloramine, then the cheaper conditioner might have 
simply NH4 into the water, and that cause the green water, and then the 
Prime may have sequestered it and stopped the green water? I wonder how 
many people's algae problems are due to ammonia released by chloramine? 
This would make products such as Prime an excellent treatment for some 
tanks with algae?

--
Andrew McLeod
thefish at theabyssalplain_freeserve.co.uk

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