|
|
|
|
|
#2
03-31-2004, 03:48 PM
|
||||
|
||||
Did you acclimatize your tank to the lights? Or just pop em in? I made that mistake and had the same problem =(
It only lasted about a week, Beth
__________________
Worry is like a rocking chair, it will give you something to do, but it won\'t get you anywhere. 
|
|
#3
03-31-2004, 06:36 PM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
Yeah (I think) it's fairly normal to have an small outbreak if you up your lighting. It should be temporary..
__________________
-- Tony My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee!
|
|
#4
03-31-2004, 10:36 PM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I followed an acclimitisation procedure of 1hr on 1 hr off for two days and then upping the on time by 15 minutes every two days.
I'll relax about the cyno then and see what it looks like in a week's time. Thanks guys.
|
|
#6
04-01-2004, 05:53 AM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
Quote:
 
__________________
No matter what the morrow brings, inventors keep inventing things. ----------------------------------- Jonathan ----------------------------------- www.cakerybakery.ca
|
|
#7
04-01-2004, 06:04 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I definitely feel that my cyano problem is a mixture of insufficient skimming and flow.
__________________
-Quinn Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
|
|
#8
04-01-2004, 07:25 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
It is normal to get an algae outbrake soon after changing lamps or moving to a completely new type (ie. to MH's). However, usually this is indicative of a problem present with the nutrient levels in your tank when you made the switch.
Think of the light as acting as a catalyst to fuel the even faster uptake of nutrients from your tank in to the given form of algae. This is essentially what is happening. Interesting to note here is that cyanobacteria is not algae, however it relies on similar imputs of nutrients to spread. Once established, it has the unique ability to assimilate dissolved nitrogen from the water, as part of it's tissue! Thus it is important to remove cyano when noticed, and even medicate to kill it if it becomes substantially established. You really don't need more nitrogen input... you have enough in your food!
|
|
#10
04-01-2004, 01:04 PM
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
Quote:
Steve
__________________
 *everything said above is just my opinion, and may or may not reflect the views of this BBS, its Operators, and its Members. If cornered on any “opinion” I post I will totally deny having ever said this in a Court of Law…Unless I am the right one*Some strive to be perfect.... I just strive.
|
It was for a 150g tank afterall..... 
Hybrid Mode
