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  1. Daniel
    @parker p you wouldn't be the same Parker who is asking about what strains of livebearers for a 10 gallon planted tank under a different login would you?
  2. Daniel
    If you ask @Bob what kind of fish to keep he will probably mention rainbow fish. If you ask me what kind of plant will remove nitrogen, withstand cold water, or be a good place for fry to hide, I will say hornwort.
  3. Daniel
    Hornwort grows well for me in water that has ice on top of it.
  4. Daniel
    What kind of results did you get the first time you tried that. Did it set the green water back any? I might be inclined to try that. Are there other plants in the aquarium?
  5. Daniel
    I suspect that you do too. But part of that biological filtration might be the free floating green algae. It seems to have been okay for the last 4 months without starving to death.
  6. Daniel
    @Colu you mentioned a foot long goldfish in the aquarium. Do think it is possible the waste products from the goldfish are feeding the free floating algae that makes the water green?
  7. Daniel
    @Colu what do you think is the source of the green water? It looks awfully green in that photo above. When I have had water that green, there was plenty of light and plenty of nutrients. Yours could be different though.
  8. Daniel
    Let's see what @Coronal Mass Ejection Carl has to say. It look's like he is on the right trail.
  9. Daniel
    That seems like a useful clue. Either your water change water has the same amount of ammonia as your 55 gallon aquarium or the results of your ammonia test are inaccurate. It doesn't seem likely your water change water has 8 pmm ammonia. Have you tested your water change water?
  10. Daniel
    When you do a 50% water change does it cut the ammonia reading by 50%?
  11. Daniel
    Is there anything wrong with the fish in the aquarium with the 8 ppm Ammonia reading? Do they seem stressed out? When you do a 50% water change does it cut the ammonia reading by 50%?
  12. Daniel
    There was a good discussion of GH in this blog post: The Fish Keeper’s Guide to pH, GH, and KH WWW.AQUARIUMCOOP.COM pH, GH, and KH are terms commonly used in water chemistry, but there is a lot of confusion surrounding them in the freshwater aquarium hobby. This... Basically, if your shrimp are having trouble molting, or your snails have thin or pitted shells, or your plants have a calcium deficiency, you might want to raise your GH a bit.
  13. Daniel
    To say there are diverse opinions on this would be an understatement.
  14. Daniel
    @Colu do you think it is nutrients then?
  15. Daniel
    This was a much needed video for the forum. Thanks @MickS77!
  16. Daniel
    @quirkylemon103 Here is your full tank shot, although you will notice the tank itself is not full. I have been stealing green water from the tank to feed some new Daphnia that I recently wild collected. Right now the tank has just a mated pair of angelfish, some Vallisneria and a big glorp of floating plants that I haven't sorted out yet. I will probably fill it to near the top again later today. Unfortunately it has been cloudy here for a week so the tank is beginning to clear on me, which of course is not what I wanted. Murphy's law says an aquarium won't produce green water when you want to. But that same aquarium will be opaque green when you don't want it to, right @Colu? The wild collected new strain of Daphnia came from a nearby vernal pool, as I have been pressed for some green water to feed this new very reddish Daphnia species. This video is of the new Daphnia feeding off the green water from the 1930s aquarium. The vernal pool water also has glass worms, blood worms, isopods, Grammarus type amphipods, and Ambystoma salamander larva in it. I try very hard to make sure all the Ambystoma stays in the vernal pool.
  17. Daniel
    Often water changes contribute to cloudy water because the nutrient consuming part of the aquarium ecosystem doesn't have a chance to clear out all the nutrients before the next water change. Not always, but that is probably what @MickS77 had in mind when he recommended waiting longer between water changes. I have had aquariums that took between 1 - 3 months from the time they were established until the time the water clarity finally stabilized at clear.
  18. Daniel
    You see it a lot in stem plants. I usually either bury the bare stem or clip the plant and replant it.
  19. Daniel
    Sometimes plants 'retire' their lower leaves so the newer, healthier, closer to light source leaves get all the resources they need. It sort of a form of senicide, but in a good way.😀
  20. Daniel
    Green water is usually a result of generous nutrients in the water and enough light to support rapid free floating algae reproduction. Without one or the other the free floating algae eventually cannot reproduce and dies. This is the point your water goes clear. The aquarium that produced the green water for the video below is clearing up today because it has had reduced light recently as it has been cloudy for a week here in North Carolina.
  21. Daniel
    It looks like it worse on lowers leaves?
  22. Daniel
    UV inhibits the reproduction of the free floating algae that make the water green but it won't kill the currently existing free floating green algae. So, perhaps it will take longer to begin to have an effect. Alternatively, if the free floating algae reproduces at a faster rate than the UV can depress reproduction it may have a hard time ever catching up.
  23. Daniel
    @Colu are you using it on the aquarium that you have your plecos and x-ray tetra’s in?
  24. Daniel
    I am not saying they are waterproof but my cats frequently knock my Finnex Stingrays into the aquarium and so far it hasn't hurt the lights.
  25. Daniel
    Different strokes in different culture. It still amazing me that there are dedicated venues to fish fighting.
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