My new 2 ft tank

[cjloong]

Finally, the water cleared somewhat. Algae broke loose after that, not sure if it is caused by accident during water change, causing base substrate to shoot out or lack of CO2 for the previous few days.

Most likely due to lack of CO2. Mix a batch again with new yeast/sugar and going to see progress. Looks like the nice green algae have almost dissappeared, only slight traces left, most probably due to yamato feasting on it. Anyway, here is the tank update, another angle, another stage, ... Algae War!!! :nervous:

Algae is black, hair like structure sticking to weeping moss. It has turned a little white after CO2 addition. Don't really know what type of algae is it yet. Have to do some research.

Anyway, here is the image.

[cjloong]

Finally eliminated 99% of the algae. Tank looks like this now.


Over the past weeks, I have installed a cylinder CO2, a normal disfusser, and increased CO2 to about 30ppm.

I did not decrease lighting or stop fertilization. Dose some trace in fact at one time when I saw that plants stopped. After dosing trace, plants bubbles like crazy.

All these adjustment did not do much to the algae except stop it from growing. Finally put 10 SAE and over a period of 3-5 days, all algae is gone. Now, SAE is in my another tank, only left 2 in this one.

Now it remains to be seen if tank will sustain and not get algae. It will go through a testing period of 2 weeks without algae returning before I do rescaping and trimming.

[wong1979]

One thing bad about high-lighting CO2ed tank with fast growing stemmed plants is that you can never keep the maintain the same look without trimming regularly...sighzzz..

[ranmasatome]

reccommend a good trim for all the back plants...it will make them more bushy and give a nice overall shape..

[CoCoNut3]

nice bogwood ??? driftwood... it will be nice if the moss grows all over

[Nevada]

hi, nice progress there in ur tank ... like what other say, maybe u should trim more of ur background plants and can consider of planting more of that plants at the back ...

great job there!