Frustrated Green !

one more thing, don't know if this matters, yesterday i did a huge water change, I put the water in a clean drum, in hopes to reuse the water... anyways, I just checked it. ALL the green settled in the drum, the surface area in crystal clear... should i put it back in my tank ? Or what does this mean ?
 
i use my brita filter on all the water added to my tank, i just tested it, it seems it takes out all the phosphate, nitrate etc. or its extremely low because its not registering. and like i said on page 1, i just replaced the bulbs 10 weeks ago.
 
If you don't have a steraliser you're just going to be adding tonnes of spores back to your tank if you put the water back in. I would change out the water .
 
no, i dont have a uv ster. i dont even know what it is lol but like i said, its a loose loose situation, i keep the light on, it gets greener, i keep it off, i'm killing my reef, i dont know what to do
 
AquariaCentral.com