Green Water Facing Defeat

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tackful

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Mar 15, 2007
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After 6 weeks I may be winning. Have employed all the usual methods, but didn't think of reducing the photoperiod until it was mentioned here. It was also suggested somewhere that testing the tapwater was a good idea. It used to always be 0, but now I get a reading of 1.0. This may be why things got worse after all those water changes! It also seems to help if I give my filter media a real good wringing each day. It turns my bucket water dark green each time.
 
tackful said:
After 6 weeks I may be winning. Have employed all the usual methods, but didn't think of reducing the photoperiod until it was mentioned here. It was also suggested somewhere that testing the tapwater was a good idea. It used to always be 0, but now I get a reading of 1.0. This may be why things got worse after all those water changes! It also seems to help if I give my filter media a real good wringing each day. It turns my bucket water dark green each time.
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Are you using a UV sterilizer or Ozone?
 
I'm sorry; I was testing for phosphates. No UV sterilizer yet as I want to see what I can learn by staying with simpler and more natural methods.
 
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