merk1_99

Well I am dealin with my green water with the willow method. Have have had gw for almost two weeks. So we will see what happens.

Amazon_Replica

Well let me admit, I thought this was BS but was sick of green water, over a month now, with no ferts. I removed my pea gravel purchased at a DIY center. Had some kind of nasty chemicals in there, made the fish discolor and sick. I've used pea gravel in the past but must've had a particularly bad batch. Anyway went with blue and black gravel from LFS. This caused one heck of an ammonia spike, off the charts. I had to pull the fish and wait. I figured, a week or two the tank would cycle what with all the plants in it. After 4 weeks it was worse, and seemed to be even worse with a water change. I thought about a diatom filter but don't have the funds there, and I saw this post and thought to myself, yea right lol.

I caught myself one day when I was driving, spotting out willow trees from the road. After a few days of actually noticing I was looking, I said ok, pulled over and snapped a good thick branch off.

In literally 4 days the water was just a bit hazy, after 1 week it is clear as ever, and the branch only has like 1-1.5 in roots on it. SO, long story short, it seems to have more than worked for me.

Very crude photos, from my phone sorry.

before

after

again, bad photos i know but gives the basic idea

dyollnave

I really hope the willow method works, I have terrible GW. I can only see about two inches into my tank so it will be nice to see something other than green water for a change. My cherries are pregnant so i really want to be able to see them.

lilypotter2009

Waterchanges does not work for fighting green water. I think the willow method works.

BettaGuy

Hello all -

Do you think this will work for Hair Algae? I have a Nano which is infested with green water AND hair algae. It is heavily planted, lightly stocked, but it probably receives too much sunlight. And with such a small volume, things can get out of whack pretty fast.

The good thing is, I have rooted willow cuttings growing in vases, together with guppy fry. (The guppies keep the dengue mosquito wrigglers at bay - I'm in an endemic area.)

I'll try putting the rooted cuttings in the nano tank tomorrow. I only have two stems, with good roots, and new shoots. Anyway, it's just a 2 gallon tank.

Sure, I can rip apart the tank and plant it out again, but it's fun to experiment.


Bettaguy

murdocmason

all i have to say is bravo insert award here______ =) thanks everyone here for your info i'm currently battling cloudy water for about a month now it gets cloudy during the evening more so today is day one of willow branches in the tank , ill take before and after photos and post parameters of the start date and the end date thx all again sincerely Doc Mason

Start date water parameters and photo

Tank size 25 gal

Nitrate/NO3 ==0-5 ppm

Nitrite/NO2 ==.3

Ammonia/NH3 & NH4 ==0

pH ==7.0

kH ==5 degrees

gH ==180

Carbon source ==DIY cO2 1 gallon jug @ 1bblps @ 15 ppm

Phosphate/PO4 ==0

Iron/Fe ==0-0.1

Ave Temp. ==79F

Filtration ==HOB whisper 400 series filter no carbon

Light ==Coralife 65w 50/50,10k bulb on for about 12 hours a day also recieves some natural sunlight early morning approx. 6-8 am

No special substrate,river sand

Ferts ==Seachem flourish, flourish tabs

about 20 in of fish so a nice heafty bioload

I do 20% wc every 3-5 days or sooner depending on tests also i use a hagen master test kit liquid reagents used to test water

dyollnave

Worked perfectly for my tank. Month after the water cleared and still going strong. Awesome.