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[Ilangi]

How high is high?

This question I believe is relative to the amount of "fast growing" plants that you have in your tank, however Nitrates above 50ppm is not only bad for your fish, but will also adversly affect your plants.

HTH

[punie]

The thing about UV oxidising the traces within your water is a tad flawed. The reason being we dose too much to be concern about that issue. If you use a UV on a tank that doesn't get dosing, then that should be a worry, but at the rate we're dosing, its of no concern.

[Graeme]

I was just reading a post here.(http://www.aquariace...ead.php?t=55858)
They discused lots of ways to control a outbreak of green water.I liked the idea of the Daphnia ( as brought up here as well) Remove fish, add daphnia and when its clean add fish again.Sounds so easy.Wonder if it would work?

Anyone want to give me some green water to try??
Kidding
Graeme

[Ilangi]

You can even make a "daphnia cage" where the daphnia are protected from the fish and cannot swim freely though the tank, but green water can flow freely through the cage and be "filtered" by the feeding daphnia, once they're nice and fat you can then sacrifice them as a nutritional snack for your fish :twisted:

[duck]

Update: What have i done is cut back on the dosing a little,One off large dose of flourish,WC@50%,cleared up a bit.

Still holding on to idea it's not PO4 but NH4+,I Did another WC the next day,Instead of filling it with the tap water i siphoned the water from my large tank,Now it's seems to be recovering a lot quicker,I can almost see my plant's again

Now that i can see my plants a little better, What i have noticed is that they didn't grow much at all compared to when it was clear,Slow plant growth, slow nutrient uptake, algea stay for a longer visit.

[duck]

Update not the best pic but you get the idea it's 95% clear now.
Got a jungle happening,Need to wait 1 more week before i prune anything,I don't know if the fish will have any room to swim by then :roll: