Green water

[ram man]

I just did a water change a few days ago. now my water is green! how do it get rid of it? and if i do a black out will it hurt my corals?

 

[wayne]

If your corals are photosynthetic ones (probably yes) , then they require light to survive else you'll kill the dinoflagellate algae in them called xooanthellae.

Green water = dirty water/nutrient problem. You nuked your cyano didn't you - you've moved from one nuisance algae to another as you didn't fix the root cause

 

[ram man]

so i guess this means water change and big...

 

[1979camaro]

well, that might temporarily solve the problem but you need to track down the source of your algae problems and remove it

 

[ram man]

i know the source, its the water im using. it water from the spout on the fridge, im just gonna get those gallon jugs at safe way for now on.

 

[lordroad]

Ram, try calling around to various stores and see if they have water vending machines... these things spew out reverse osmosis water, often with RO/DI being an option too which is what I use.

I have a 3 gallon container I fill up once a week at my local hippie/vegan/organic/health food/what have you store.