This is a very informative page with step-by-step on how to make green water indoors.

http://www.arofanatics.com/members/desirel...tercultivation/

I know u guys gonna say,"Oh nooo poor fishies!!" when u looked at the pics (I was apalled too) but my point is that it's actualy quite easy to set up green water.

There are some questions I'd like to ask though, and hopefully more experienced members will be able to answer :

1. In the link, the guy used live fish (2 beaut ranchus in fact! i can't do that! ) to kick start the ammonia. If I wanna use pure ammonia from a bottle instead, anybody knows how much to put in (at first and subsequently) if I haven't got any test kits?

2. He mentioned using a bulb of rating 6500K (Kelvin). Anybody know what the heck is "Kelvin" (not the temperature of course)?

cheers

I can't seem to open the link!My pop-up blocker keeps blocking it

That looks sooo gross. It reminds me of the time my parents and I went to FLorida for a week and had a neighbor watch our fish. When we got back the water was sooo bad. Looking back I'm suprised none of my fish died.

I'm not quite sure why anyone would want to have green, slimey looking water, but whatever floats your boat....

can u unblock it? it's a very useful site, cathy

Does look gross, but it does wonders to your fish, intensifies the colours, fatten them up, less stress, etc etc. just gotta make sure there are lots of dissolved oxygen.

anybody to answer my questions in the first post?

cheers

I just figured out how to unblock it

That was a great site.That's what most breeders do come wintertime.I've read something familiar in one of my books...I'll dig the book up and see what I can find!

I tried to follow this post and cultivate my own green water. After two weeks of trying to grow it, at best I got a lime green concoction similar to day 9. I had a tiny ranchu in my tank but I noticed that he started to get a little fin rot on his tail. So I took him out of the tank and placed him back in some good water. His tail is now recovering and I scrapped the plan. Let me know how your results come out!

Okay now can someone kindly explain to me why in the world you would want lime green water??!! I am sure there is a logical explantion, And I did read through the whole process, the greener it got the more I YAK..
What is the benefial reasoning behind the ICK POO water?

Yo froggy

The link I posted is just how to start greenwater culture. It does look yucky especially the one where they close-up on the pile of poo, but the pile of poo is just there when u start. Green water is actually very clean & healthy

Ok on the benefits of green water:
- The green algae that makes the water green is a natural filtration system. All the ammonia, nitrite & nitrates are absorbed and the water stays healthy.
- Green algae produces oxygen thus make the water high in dissolved oxygen content.
- Green algae is an excellent food source that intensifies the colour of the fish & enhances wen growth.
- Less stress to the fish because they're concealed.
- Good indicator of goldfish health.

The cons:
- Too much green algae can cause oxygen burns.
- At night the algae competes for oxygen with the goldfish, but easily rectified with lots of aeration.
- Sometimes can't see the fish

Wanna know why goldfish bred in chinese/japanese farms look so healthy? It's green water.

For further info on green water, click this link:
http://geocities.com/greenngoldsg/greenwater-frame.html

cheers

WOW, I still thinks it's gross but I had no idea it was good for the fishies. Here I was thinking some people had weird style tastes and actually like the green water, oh well, shows how much I know. I don't think I'll be turning my water green any time soon but I can see the benefits now. YAY, I learned something (...does the happy dance...). Thanks for the link to further info, it helped a lot.

Gren water, done correctly does not stink. It is a great, alternative way to keeping the fish.

But since the majority of us are not into fish for breeding large numbers or raising them to the maximum potential for shows, we prefer to see the fish. For visibility, we keep our water clear and use a bacterial cycle to keep the water.

We also typically view the fist from the side - something that is not the norm in many countries. Green water tubs on many balconies in Asia are very common. The fish are healthy and happy.

Lord Kelvin was a very smart dude who fooled about with electricity. He invented a way to get electricity by charging water drops which you've probably seen replicated at science fairs, as well as... the refrigerator.

He had to write a lot of his findings up under an assumed name because he was perceived as being too big for his boots but he also invented a scale to measure light colour which he was allowed to stick his name to. It is the K symbol you see on aquarium lighting.

Maybe this site will help you:
Aquabotanic


Artificially adding ammonia will have to be done very, very slowly and evenly to allow the bacteria to build up. You could rig up some sort of gravity drip system like fish keepers do to drip infusoria down to fry tanks... look at taps and airline tubing next time you're at an aquarium.

Hey that was a very informative page, yabbie thx for posting it!