Emergency

[hartman413]

hey guys i didn't know where to go or what to do. My tank is green. not green as in algae growing on the glass but green as in my water is turning green!?!?!?! anyone ever have this happen to them before or does anyone know how to get rid of it???

 

[earlybird]

do you currently run carbon? what are you parameters?

 

[hartman413]

just put some carbon in. trates 0 trites 30 sg 1.027 phos 0 amoino 0

 

[lion_crazz]

First thing to do is a water change. Nitrates of 30 is on the high side and you want to begin to bring that down.
Do you use RO or tap? If you are not using RO, do your water change with RO.
What kind of filtration do you have?
What is in the tank?
How long has the tank been running?

 

[hartman413]

running a fuge with ls chateo and some lr about 15 pounds to be exact. the tank is a 40 gal and the sump is 20 gal. been up and running since june of 06 i generally use ro but i had a emergency and had to use tap but i dechlored it and everything seemed fine i got about 30 lb ls and 40 lr

 

[lion_crazz]

There was probably a very high level of phosphates and silicates in the tap. I would just begin doing water changes with RO/DI again, change the carbon often, and use poly-filter pads.