Update1. Algae all gone in interim tank. [warning picture intensive]

**torque6** · 18th Aug 2008, 18:38

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**torque6** · 18th Aug 2008, 18:43

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**Jervis** · 18th Aug 2008, 19:00

Very well documented! After seeing through your 4th pix... I thought you will just give up on it

Turning out nicely

**route** · 18th Aug 2008, 19:18

the green thread like algae is still in my tank

other than the snails, other ways to get rid of it?

**Captain Telecredible** · 18th Aug 2008, 19:46

Hi there you have a beautifu tank
Cheers !

**blue33** · 18th Aug 2008, 21:47

Great to see you won the battle on algae. Looking forward your setup!

**Quixotic** · 19th Aug 2008, 00:06

Not nerite snails, they are the pond snails, probably Physa species.

**torque6** · 19th Aug 2008, 03:43

Originally Posted by Jervis

Very well documented! After seeing through your 4th pix... I thought you will just give up on it

Turning out nicely

thanks jervis. Ya, was going to give up since even putting in fast growing plants, things didnt work out for close to 2 weeks. Guess it takes time for the plants to adapt before they uptake optimal nutrient levels, thus minimising algae.

Originally Posted by route

the green thread like algae is still in my tank

other than the snails, other ways to get rid of it?

route, like i posted in your thread, i schedule filter cleaning together with water changes as it pretty much got out of hand. I had a pool of brown diatoms when i soak and rinse my filter pads/biohomes in existing tank water. Things got better after the 2nd wash. So 3rd week was quite clean.

Originally Posted by Captain Telecredible

Hi there you have a beautifu tank
Cheers !

thanks capt. welcome to the forums. This however isnt my tank but a tank to grow rotalas for my next 1ft upcoming end of the month. I just wanted to test the "theory" of fast growing plants to counter algae.

Originally Posted by blue33

Great to see you won the battle on algae. Looking forward your setup!

Thanks blue33 for your great advises. always.

Originally Posted by Quixotic

Not nerite snails, they are the pond snails, probably Physa species.

Pond snails ? i find them worth more $$ than the nerites i bought. In the past when i had them, i usually feed them to my guppies, but this time since faced with an algae infested tank, i just "heck care" them.

Im glad it work out fine. They help in eating the hair algae/brown diatoms which my nerite snail didnt touch. So quite impressed actually. Do they feed on plants as they grow larger or maintain their algae eating regime?

**Quixotic** · 20th Aug 2008, 00:49

They are not known to eat plants, main diet would be algae, decomposing matters and of course, whatever you feed to your fish.

However, as they are hermaphrodites, they can quickly overrun a tank if there is excess food available. Limit the food available to them and you should be able to keep their population low.

**torque6** · 20th Aug 2008, 23:59

thanks qui, will keep them in mind. I will probably give them to bros if I find them more than i can handle. appreciate the info.

**torque6** · 22nd Aug 2008, 21:23

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**blue33** · 22nd Aug 2008, 22:12

What you can do is change 10% of the water everyday or alternate day would help your algae control. To remove the old nana leaves, use your hand to plug them out instead of cutting, cutting will get them grow side away instead straight, read from somewhere.

**torque6** · 23rd Aug 2008, 16:41

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**Shadow** · 23rd Aug 2008, 16:59

since you are using drop checker, why don't you just move it around to find the dead spot? Not easy though because drop checker response is not instan.

**torque6** · 23rd Aug 2008, 18:15

shadow, im not familiar with using the drop checker to find dead spot ? any clear instructions ?

**Shadow** · 23rd Aug 2008, 20:11

Well nothing special, it was happen when I bought 2nd drop checker (ANS). I put both drop checker at the same tank but different location. Somehow the color is different. I was tought that ANS solution is bad but when I change the solution into ADA (same solution as the other one), it still show the same color. So I'm guessing that area have less CO2 ppm.

So I conclude that you might be able to use drop checker to find dead spot. I can be wrong though

**blue33** · 23rd Aug 2008, 23:35

What you can do is get some soft plant and plant at certain part if you think is death spot, if the plant didnt have slight sway then it properly is a death spot area. If you stuff too much media in your filter you already decrease half the flow rate of the indicated flow rate, OHF best with coarse media sponge, those green type.