Lovegasoline
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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- Jul 28, 2017
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- 44
Sorry to hear circumstances are happening at the worse time.
The comment about blocking light is fine to do on the glass of the tank. Not absolute for the window. Just usually an easy fix to keep light rays from hitting the tank.
You can do a 100% black out on the tank by covering the glass and any area light could seep through for 3 days. Don't feed the turtle for a couple days. To keep nutrients to a min. level while treating the tank with the black out.
Big water change after to remove dead algae.
Phosguard can be ordered online. It can come ready done in a pouch maybe 100ml size or buy specialized bags to add larger amounts to. Also not needed today. But would be a wise investment for the future.
If you clean out 100% water change. Keeping the ceramic media if the tank is cycled would be for the health of the cycle of the tank. Possibly causing damage to your turtle and requiring more water changes to keep him in a safe zone of ammonia, nitrite and nitrate. That is the importance of not bleaching it.
After 100% water change the algae should be killed off by the UV unit. Eventually eliminating the problem.
You could have a broken unit ??? Bad bulb if it is the kind that come with one, maybe?
Plants can be ordered by mail. Later.
What is the point of treating the algae in the tank if I'm harboring an algae infused and infested basket full of ceramic media, which will likely function as a safe haven and starter culture for the algae to resume it's reproduction? One step forward two steps back?
I'm just not understanding the logic behind preserving the infected ceramic media. maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but it seems like operating to cut out cancer but leaving huge cancerous tumors intact to continue growing.
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