Ultraviolet Sterilizer / Help

[Bill Sprake]

Anyone have one I can borrow or have for sale. I canno get rid of this green water. Treating with AlgaeFix and water changes every 3 days but still not make any headway. Have a 45g with Rena XP3 filter sys... Any help or suggestions?

[Mike]

How old is the tank and where are you getting your water? Also what kind of lights/bulbs are you running? Possible that is contributing, if the bulbs are old/wrong color spectrum. Obviously I would expect it to be algae of some type, but wondering what the source/cause it, versus treating the symptoms. Running any carbon? That can help clean your water also.

This thread might be better in the emergency section. Some tank/set up parameters would be helpful, also maybe a photo. Maybe a mod can move it.

[Gseclipse02]

dosing phyto ?

[Bill Sprake]

I am running AquaticLife 36 Inch T5 HO Lamps with 4 Lunar LEDs at the 10k, 420/460 nm. My ph is low 7.9 or so (i'll bring this up), NH3 and NO2 are 0 and NO3 is about 10. The tank is about 18 months old and I am running carbon in one of my baskets. Maybe I can add more? The water is green-ish not brown. I don't have any cyano as best as I can tell.


How old is the tank and where are you getting your water? Also what kind of lights/bulbs are you running? Possible that is contributing, if the bulbs are old/wrong color spectrum. Obviously I would expect it to be algae of some type, but wondering what the source/cause it, versus treating the symptoms. Running any carbon? That can help clean your water also.

This thread might be better in the emergency section. Some tank/set up parameters would be helpful, also maybe a photo. Maybe a mod can move it.

[Bill Sprake]

Don't know what that is - sorry???


dosing phyto ?

[Bill Sprake]

Nope, I'm not...

[allan]

What's the temperature of your water, bill?

[Bill Sprake]

Allan, about 76


What's the temperature of your water, bill?