My Greenwater Experiment Options

[d_golem]

Hi guys,
I'm new here and I've tried making green water. Can u guys comment if i'm on the right track here?

Set up is a 55 litre plastic tub filled with about 30 litre dechlor water (i used Stress coat, the one with aloe vera in it, does the aloe vera affects the cultivation at all?), 2 feeder fish each about 10-12 cm long, a new airstone, and a little 8 wat "daylight" bulb to keep the light going at night time. I put the tub outside under a uv filtered plastic shading and it received sunlight about 9-10 hours a day.

On the first 7 days there was no reaction at all, meaning the water was fairly clear and never got to the stage of "murkiness" in desireless' indoor green water cultivation method. But by the 8th day suddenly the poo became dispersed and debris started floating around much like day 3-6 of desireless' pictures. By the 9th day green tinge started to appear. the rest u guys can see from the pics:

Day 8





Day 9





Day 11





What do u guys think?

cheers & thx a lot

[desireless]

I am very sure to say you had the green because of the routine sunlight you've been giving to this first brew.

The electrical setup (8 watt lamp) is not enough to to keep the green water going on. When you have a second brew and above. With water filled up, algae at the bottm of tub will not get the brightness required. There will be a stage when the algae gets too green and the algae at the top level will block light from going to bottom level.