Need Help - What Is Green Water Options

[goldfish82]

halo to all lao jiao members here. i am a sin jiao in keeping goldfish. i saw some posting stating green water. can anyone tell me what is green water??
thanks.

[jowy_ham]

HB, what is the difference between bio-green and pure green water ?

Me confused after reading this thread. All along I have impression that :

- green water is green water ( no BB involvement ) and it is good for goldfish because it is food to goldfish and it helps to maintain optimum water quality ( except for oxygen burn con )

- Bio filteration is BB cultivated in sponge/filter medium that helps to convert the ammonia to nitrite and then nirate.

Now we have bio-green, is it a hybrie ( dunno how to spell ) of both ?

And since there is a issue of amount of green water to per fish ( too little green water, ammonia doesnt gets convert fast enough ), may I know what is the recommend volume ? same as per goldfish requirement -> bare minimum of 50L per goldfish ?

lao jiao bros, please chip in also so that I may learn

Thanks in advance

[HappyBuddha]

HB, what is the difference between bio-green and pure green water ?

Now we have bio-green, is it a hybrie ( dunno how to spell ) of both ?

I think I'm the one who shamelessly coined the term bio-green, but it's probably not something I invented although i did carry out some tests to establish some facts and dispel some myths about green water. Yawn.

Yeah, it's a hybrid of clear and green water. I prefer to think of it as Clear Water with free-floating unicelluar algae added. On the other hand, cynics of bio-green will say it's Green Water with bacteria added. So it's really how you see it, whether a cup is half-full or half-empty....

If you subscribe to my view about bio-green, you must first and foremost love filtered clear water. Setting one up correctly (including doing regular water change), your goldfish will thrive in it. However, we all know that there's something in filtered water that isn't good in high concentration -- nitrate. Bio-green overcomes this problem as my test results have shown bio-green is able to keep the nitrate count constant or prevent it from accumulating linearly on a daily basis.

So now you have filtered water without excessive nitrate. One cheer for Bio-green.

Next, there's additional source of food, the algae, for your goldfish to eat. The benefits of algae is well known so I won't repeat here.

So there you have it. Bio-green is a hybrid of Clear and Green Water.

lao jiao bros, please chip in also so that I may learn 

Thanks in advance

Side track... you have always sounded and written sincerely but I would suggest others to avoid calling users here "expert", "lau jiao", or "guru" as *sometimes* it's taken wrongly, abeit like I see someone with a hair of golden spikey yellow hair and I say to him "Wah, your hair cool sia." That person might take my complement as an insult.