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You are not going to "water change" it out.
There are about 6 methods to deal with green water.
Blackout, I really don't find this particularly effective, often comes back later. 5 days, often makes foreground plants leggy.
Daphnia, might work in your case.
Add some mulm from the start, you'll never have GW, don't add NH4 or do fish less cycling.
UV(they make small ones and a small power head is all you need to run it).
Diatom filters are too large, but a small 9 3/4" caritage filters work, they have 1 and 5 micron pleated caritages that will work.
Hagen quik filters are also 5 microns.
Copper kills it but need to be careful not to overdose to kill plants.
You can remove the plants/fish/mulm, then bomb the tank, rinse the plants 3-4 x with tap, then return to the tank. H2O2 can be used also etc.
GW will be gone once you kill/remove it, make sure the CO2 is good, plant health etc, don't starve your plants in effort to kill GW.
Never works and only causes reoccurances(from stunted plants).
New tanks get it becuase of high light, NH4 and non cycled tank, or NH4 dosing from fishless cycling. Adding mulm from the intial set up, less light etc works well.
I've never had GW form without dosing NH4.
Regards,
Tom Barr
There are about 6 methods to deal with green water.
Blackout, I really don't find this particularly effective, often comes back later. 5 days, often makes foreground plants leggy.
Daphnia, might work in your case.
Add some mulm from the start, you'll never have GW, don't add NH4 or do fish less cycling.
UV(they make small ones and a small power head is all you need to run it).
Diatom filters are too large, but a small 9 3/4" caritage filters work, they have 1 and 5 micron pleated caritages that will work.
Hagen quik filters are also 5 microns.
Copper kills it but need to be careful not to overdose to kill plants.
You can remove the plants/fish/mulm, then bomb the tank, rinse the plants 3-4 x with tap, then return to the tank. H2O2 can be used also etc.
GW will be gone once you kill/remove it, make sure the CO2 is good, plant health etc, don't starve your plants in effort to kill GW.
Never works and only causes reoccurances(from stunted plants).
New tanks get it becuase of high light, NH4 and non cycled tank, or NH4 dosing from fishless cycling. Adding mulm from the intial set up, less light etc works well.
I've never had GW form without dosing NH4.
Regards,
Tom Barr
