Green Water Column

[stephane]

I'm staying calm and accepting my fate - I run a phytoplankton farm! I don't want to stress the tank any more, but I can't see what's going on in there, and that is stressing Me.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ho!!!! Alan your tank is 3 month old!!

Stop asking you question my friend your tank is not realy getting in balance yet you just have finish you normal nitrogen cycle and at this point your tank is very fragile to any change you have probably only overfeed it. New tank could only process a litle food. Feed it every day have get you cross the balance and you tank react in protecting is self by produce the easyest nutriment eater "algea" if she have not doing this you will have amonia or nitrite so in your case the algea have been only beneficial and give you a chance. Now go get rid of it sometime take more time than other deppend of who nutriment you have there. ALL nutriment need to be process 100% in other form than algea I will try to explane it better That way.

tink about if you have 1000 algea cell in you tank and now you feed so you feed them up an they reproduce. If you stop feed them dont tink they will dies all living cell proces only 20% off all
they feed on 80% of it stay in your water colum +
when they dies because they starve, the one that die feed the other one that live and so reproduce.
but normal balance will be create and algea overgrow by other like coraline and nutriment suck by coral who feed at algea and alway keep the 20% in them so sometime it take more longuer but time will be your best friend and medication you enemy since it will kill the algea but stop normal evolution of the tank

IMO Even water change for the next month will disturb to much wait be patient. REDUCE feeding to 2 or 3 time a week for a month or until ting go better dont add ANYTING until a couple of month

[ 18 June 2002, 14:00: Message edited by: stephane ]