Beginner 4ft Rock and Hair grass tank

[Johnenrui]

Seems like the LED strips have been working well as a cheaper alternative?(:


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[cbr_400_cbr]

Is hair grass easy to grow?

[cbr_400_cbr]

With the led strips

[lohsh]

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Growth after 6 weeks..
I have started to dim down the strips to 70%, after the weekend blackout to try get rid of the hair algae. At this reduced intensity, the plants are still bubbling so I'll monitor further.


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[Goalkeeper]

Nice scape you have. Very zen like! I never been successful with hair grass....seems like they grow very slow in my tank!

[caRoland]

nice and pleasing to the eyes...

[lohsh]

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Three months on...

[Goalkeeper]

Nice growth

[azman_haron]

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Three months on...

Hi...it seems a shame to me that the beautifully arranged rockscape on the left side is blocked

[lohsh]

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And it's also full of green thread algae within
It's only saving grace is that it serves as a great sanctuary for the shrimplets


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[aro]

Nice setup you have

[reeshee]

Did you manage to clear the hair algae? If so, how did you do it?

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[lohsh]

Nope, embracing it as part of the scape


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[DeadEnd]

Throw in a branch of yamato shrimp to attack the hair algae

[fireblade]

try red nose shrimp and SAE!

[lohsh]

Will try Amano and red nose next.
Two sae were in the tank since beginning, and don't seems to be effective against the hair algae at all even I feed the cardinal sparingly and make sure the sae doesn't get the fish food.


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[lohsh]

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Slightly over 6 months now, the pearl grass is creeping all over bu


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[lohsh]

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8 months on, pearl grass self carpeting , looks like will overwhelm the hair glass in another month or two ...


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