My green water...

[mutts]

The iminge resizer wouldn't work for me so this is the best i could do with paint. but you get the idea. my water is green, very very green. i was told in the chat room last night that a clam would love it, so i know where i might be able to buy a small cheap clam, but now all of my fish have ich. i ordered ich be gone online and it should be here tomorrow it says it is reef safe. all i have in there are fish, snails, and some marco.

so what i want to know is, how do you get rid of green water?

does ich be gone work?

will ich be gone kill a young clam?

[Iconz]

WOW, that is green... Neon, in fact... Lemme do some research, maybe I can turn over a rock and find a possible cause.

[Iconz]

Read this, it may help you out.

http://www.3reef.com/forums/asap/why...ing-38716.html

[Iconz]

The cause is apparently a phytoplankton bloom. This was caused by either not using ro/di water or using crushed coral substrate that was not maintained very well.

this appears to have been the solution: I added in a couple of comments that i italicized for you to make it more clear.

I shut off the normal lights, "I taped up the glass" (to keep all light out), "bought a uv light and the change was astonishing. In 5 days my water was crystal clear. Clarity that I never thought possible. Thank-you so much for your help. I can finally see my babies again. "

So, a uv sterlizer should do the trick.

[Iconz]

The UV sterl. will also help keep your ich from spreading... I'd QT your fish if you could... And start testing your phosphates.

[mutts]

thank you for the info iconz! i don't use rodi, i know i should but i have never had any problem in any of my other tanks from not useing it. thank you for the info!

[jojo22]

That may be what caused the 20 to go south!!

[Iconz]

You're welcome! Its no biggie.

Do you have a uv amanda? If not, I can loan you mine, if you like and would cover shipping... pending on the size of your tank, that is.... There again, by the time u pay shipping, you could just about buy one...

[mutts]

i don't have one, but i just ordered on from foster and smith, thanks for the offer though, i figure i need one again in the future if i'm not useing rodi

[Iconz]

Mine's the turbo twist 3x... it would probably handle a 50-75g tank well, anything above that, it woudln't handle efficently.