Hello ReefCentral! After reading posts on this forum, I`ve decided to join. I have a major problem!
I have had green/yellowish water in my 40 gallon breeder tank, it`s a coral prop tank. I use a skimmer, carbon, polywool, power heads, 20lbs of live sand and 20lbs of live rock. I have a 400W MH 6500k and no direct sunlight. 12H per day. Many people on other amateur forums told me that it was my light. It`s not true, my friends uses at least 7W/gallon 6500K MH lights and they don`t get green water. By the way I hang my light 18 inches from my tank. Some forums told me to use a micron filter, I already now that it`s gonna get rid of my suspended algae problem but I don`t want to just cover up the problem, I want to get to the root of it and a micron filter is like 200$ in Canada! NH3/NH4 is always at 0 and trates+trites are a95% of the time at 0, I use chaetos. I use RO water, I add chlorine and heave metal neutralizer and my salt is red sea the one with no phosphates and extra calcium. If I am missing some information please tell me! I`ve done a 99% water change after this problem persisted for a month! People told me: just to water changes it will go away, it didn`t work... After the 99% water change, it didn`t take more than 3 days before I suspected the water was getting green cloudy again... So now I`m erradicating everything with bleach (don`t worry I took out all the live stuff exept for the sand). And my live rocks are in quarantine, should I freshwater clean them too? Please ReefCentral, help me! I am about to leave this exiting one of a kind hobby if this persists! Thank you in advance!
I have had green/yellowish water in my 40 gallon breeder tank, it`s a coral prop tank. I use a skimmer, carbon, polywool, power heads, 20lbs of live sand and 20lbs of live rock. I have a 400W MH 6500k and no direct sunlight. 12H per day. Many people on other amateur forums told me that it was my light. It`s not true, my friends uses at least 7W/gallon 6500K MH lights and they don`t get green water. By the way I hang my light 18 inches from my tank. Some forums told me to use a micron filter, I already now that it`s gonna get rid of my suspended algae problem but I don`t want to just cover up the problem, I want to get to the root of it and a micron filter is like 200$ in Canada! NH3/NH4 is always at 0 and trates+trites are a95% of the time at 0, I use chaetos. I use RO water, I add chlorine and heave metal neutralizer and my salt is red sea the one with no phosphates and extra calcium. If I am missing some information please tell me! I`ve done a 99% water change after this problem persisted for a month! People told me: just to water changes it will go away, it didn`t work... After the 99% water change, it didn`t take more than 3 days before I suspected the water was getting green cloudy again... So now I`m erradicating everything with bleach (don`t worry I took out all the live stuff exept for the sand). And my live rocks are in quarantine, should I freshwater clean them too? Please ReefCentral, help me! I am about to leave this exiting one of a kind hobby if this persists! Thank you in advance!
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