water is looking greenish

[pandafishowner]

actually, i don't have any gravel at all. i have the big gemstone rocks. i'm slowly increasing the amount of them. when i had gravel in my big tank, everytime i used the vaccuum cleaner, i got huge huge amonia spikes and my fish would die. i decided i'm not going to use gravel at all. i was thinking of buying these large rock like things at the store, but the bag was $15 for a 3lb. no way did I want to spend that much on such a little bag. i haven't had any amonia problems, my tank isn't in direct sunlight, and my entire kitchen gets very little light at any time of day. i'll buy some plants later after i've dealt with this algae problem (and of course on a payday), but i'm going to avoid gravel

[pandafishowner]

sorry, also wanted to add: i can now see from one end of my tank to the other. it's still green, but it seems to be clearing at least a little

[lil_clownfish13]

the gravel should only cause ammonia spikes if your not changing your water enough or the gravel is not disturbed... but you'd have to have a pretty high bioload...

anyhow, plants don't make much of a difference anyhow... live or fake--
good luck

[pandafishowner]

when i had the 10g set up, I was doing weekly water changes of between 25-30% and if it needed a change during the week i did that. i always made sure my water perameters were perfect. since upgrading to the 29g andnot having any gravel, the only problem i'd had it the algae. i always scrubbed down the inside of the tank with a tank cleaning sponge and I vaccuumed through every little bit of gravel there was when i used it.

[lil_clownfish13]

hmm...well thats different... just curious to me...

good luck with the algae!!

[pandafishowner]

thanks it's clearing up lots since stinky brought me a bag of carbon hopefully it'll clear up enough that i can show off my pretty fishies later