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Originally Posted by MatPat
You have added a whopping amount of PO4 to your tank with the generic Fleet addition!
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EEK!
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I would do a 75% wc if possible considering the amount of Fleet you added to your tank.
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I had more time earlier in the day and got it done before choir practice. Hadn't we figured on Tuesday when we were talking that my usual water changes down to the halfway point were changing way beyond the 50% water volume anyway? I sure hope so... I did roughly 8-9 gallons, considering substrate, wood, plants, rocks and equipment....
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Green Water will be clear in the morning before the lights come on. If the tank gets cloudier as the day progresses, it is growing.
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It was already pretty clear before I had started the water change as I stated in the earlier post from today.
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If you want to rid the tank of the "staghorn" algea, before the water change today, turn off the filter, and manually remove as much algae as you can, do the water change and dose the tank. If you keep after the algae it will eventually go away. This may require manual removal every day for a week, maybe more maybe less. Just turn off your filter each time you remove the algae as the filter tends to blow it around the tank more. Turning off the filter and doing a water change works well for green dust and green spot also. A diatom filter will also work but on a smaller tank, that would be a lot of current!
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Hmm, I would have thought that the filter would suck up the bits for me and keep them out of things. The brittle stuff is hard to pull out of the tank, unlike the hairy green stuff. Some of it will stick to the nylon algae scrubber pad, but most of it floats away.
More frequent water changes won't disturb the balance of nutrients for plants? If I do more frequent water changes to manually clear algae, how do I dose ferts? What percent wc should those changes be? Just enough to clear the water somewhat, 10-20%?
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