Tinyfellows Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 My 5 gallon planted shrimp tank has broken out with green water. My parameters are consistent nitrate- 10-20 nitrite 0 ammonia 0 gh 300 kh 80 ph 6.8 I am running a finnex stingray 8 hours a day I was running it 10 hours then dropped it to 8 once the green water showed up which seemed to make it worse. For filtration I run a aco sponge filter. I do around 2 pumps of easy green a week to keep my nitrates around 20 ppm. I am also injecting co2 and my drop checker is a lime green after 2 hours of light and stays like green till it turns off. In the tank I have 3 Amano shrimp and 10 red rilis and a collection of pond snails. I started 2 months ago and the green water showed up about a week and a half ago. I know that my best option would be to get a uv sterilizer but I haven’t been able to find anything that isn’t just overkill for the tank. Would I be able to water change my way through this doing 10% daily water changes or will that stress my shrimp to much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 They make a small clip on uv if you have a spare hangon back filter to clip it to until it clears up. I think they are about 30$ at Amazon or chewy. I have no clue if you can water change through it though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinyfellows Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 @Guppysnailthanks I will check that out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Super simple clip on plug in. Low flow I needed it for a fry tank I didn’t want to blow them away. that sometimes gets sun. Worked well. I don’t leave it on as you can’t submerge it so you need to keep the water a bit lower. Got mine on sale at chewy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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