Green water early battle

[Bk718]

About mid week ive noticed my 29g heavily planted tank get somewhat cloudy. I right away thought it was due to the ferts i added (First introduction of flourish nitrogen,potassium, phosphorus and iron) and thought it would clear up in a few days.. well this friday it started turning somewhat green so i did about a 30% water change and decreased the hrs the light was on (to 7hrs). The ammonia was 0 and so were the nitrates. The tank didnt at all get better so today after reading up a bit on Green Water and what exactly it can do to a tank I went straight to action and did another 30% water change and covered up the tank for the 3 day blackout.
Any tips on solving this problem??
Should i do small water changes during the blackout?!

Thanks for reading and for any help.

edit: forgot to add, probably the important part to this too. The tank gets some window light for a few hours during the day, nothing big but maybe enough to cause a problem.

 

[jaysen]

hope your plants dont melt

 

[grannylvsfish]

does flourish excel take care of this problem? I know it killed all the algae on my 10 gallon when I used it the first time.

 

[Bk718]

thanks jaysen for your concern.. I dont think 3 days will hurt the plants. Read on one site that i can check the tank midway to see if its clearing up, if it cleared up 100% already then im done if not continue till its 3 days without lights.. Compared to some of the images they got on the web of green water, mine is maybe slightly green so hopefully it will go away faster

 

[Bk718]

does flourish excel take care of this problem? I know it killed all the algae on my 10 gallon when I used it the first time.

read that it does help but i got vals and other plants that it might kill :huh:

 

[Mgamer20o0]

100% black out. no water changes better yet dont even feed the fish. keep it covered at all times.

 

[Bk718]

Thanks Mg will do
But still have to figure out what sparked this.. Either the window light or adding Flourish N-P-K and iron all at once or both at the same time.

 

[Mgamer20o0]

i am guessing a combo of all. since it gets the light the extra ferts in the water gave them the boost they need.

 

[Bk718]

The sunlight issue is easily resolved with the shade so I am good there.
But for future reference, would it be best to dose the tank with all ferts at once or space them out to different day doses?

 

[Mgamer20o0]

i do trace the one day and the others the next. check out the sticky. i dose just like that.