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RE: [APD] RE: Algae Bloom?? PLEASE READ! Thanks!!
Vic, did you break down your tank when you restarted it? New substrate,
filter material, etc? I know you said this was an 8 year old tank, but I
thought you kept the substrate and water. It seems like the new tank
syndrome would be minimal if you basically just put it back into gear after
it had been sitting in neutral for a while. I can see a bacterial bloom if
you had it all broken down and started over of course.
Regarding the possibility of algae bloom, I have seen algae that appeared to
be white until you looked very closely. In the past I have had surface scum
build up at the top of my tank which was milky white. One day while doing
some maintanence, I literally scooped it out with my hand. It was that
thick. When I got to looking at it, I saw that it actually had a very
slight green tinge to it. I just couldn't see it until I got a bunch
together.
I haven't had an algae bloom either (knock on driftwood) but I have read
that many of them do start out white and go to green at a later stage.
Don't know if this sheds any new light on your situation or not.
-----Original Message-----
From: S. Hieber [mailto:shieber at yahoo_com]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 3:23 PM
To: aquatic plants digest
Subject: Re: [APD] RE: Algae Bloom?? PLEASE READ! Thanks!!
--- Vic Di Cosola <clutch24 at adelphia_net> wrote:
> . . . A very nice guy here mentioned in my earlier post on cloudy
> water, that this could be early bacteria/normal?? I'm not set to
> panic JUST yet, but...2 days after a 50% water change, it's more
> cloudy than before and seems to be getting worse.
I haven't found water changes to be particularly helpful with the
clouldiness that comes from a cycling tank. It comes right back. I've
thought that this was because it's more a matter of the good bacteria not
yet outcompeting the stuff that clouds the water. You pull out a bunch of
the bacteria with a water change and it just grows back rather quickly. If
you try to starve the bacteria, you can end up starving your plants. Hoping
I learned well from Tom, I try to be sure my plants don't go hungry. And if
I got impatient, I'd throw on a UV. If it started to turn green on me, then
I might be even more inclined to use a UV, but I've never actually had green
water, knock on wood.
Avoiding the tank cycling is best but with any halfway decent planted tank,
the bacterial bloom clouding the water is doomed. I can't say that's what
you have, but it sounds like it.
> Could this be natural for this
> tank with the
> amount of plants, light and Co2? Do I perform another water change
> and add some activated carbon??
I wouldn't use carbon. And I'd only use water changes to control the nitrate
and phosphate levels, dosing each accrodingly to maintain nice levels and
balance. I.e., I'd try to feed the plants a balance diet. And I might throw
in more mulm into the filter. "Dirty" filters are good for new tanks, imo.
>
> I do think I have a good aquatic balance of light Co2 and plants.
> Nutrients to follow soon,
I would have thought that the nutrients should come right along with the
lighting. Without good feeding, the lights are more likely to help algae
than the plants we like.
good luck,
Scott H.
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S. Hieber
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