Reply With QuoteI'm also a beginner but I think lighting from 8am to 10 pm is abit too long isn't it?
Correct me if I'm wrong
Hi bros and sis,
I had aquarium for few years but only recently i learnt from friend about how to maintain aquarium. I didnt know about ammonia nitrite nitrate and those test kits till he taught me.
Thats out of topic,
Now i had planted aquarium. Live plants. Cardina tetra and black neon. Algae eater and sae. 2 ft tank with 55w light. With co2 injection.
My plant had very dark algae form on leaf surface. Can only scratch to remove. Sae only started to eat these algae recently. I had only 1 sae. Other algae dont eat the algaes on leaf.
Did water change evey week 20-25%.
Light on from 8am to 10pm.
How to get rid of those black coloured algaes? Buy otocinclus catfish? More sae?
My new plant start to turn brown at the tip like those burned paper.
What is not enough?
My co2 problem next. Every morning i set slightly more than 1 bubble per second. When i reach home, i always cant see bubble at all in the bubble counter. What is wrong?
When i am around and made sure bubble is coming out, the mini bubbles in the tank from co2 difusser ceremic plate float to water surface thus creating many many little bubbles at the top. What does it mean? Co2 not mix in water? Or co2 too much?
Although weekly water change, my water ph value reach near 7.5-8. With water hardness roughly 120ppm. (x 0.065 for degree). What should i do?
I cant submit photo till i get home tonight, meanwhile see which bro or sis can enlighten me.
Thanks many many ahead.
I'm also a beginner but I think lighting from 8am to 10 pm is abit too long isn't it?
Correct me if I'm wrong
some say 8 hours is enough,
some says 12 hours.
really confusing me.
my red plants turning green, i've add in the florish, pota..., phros..., nitro..., from seachem's range.
2 days and i havent seen much improvement.
for a 2 ft tank, how much co2 should be inserted ? i mean, per second.
You should not turn on your light more that 10 hours a day. Initial week maybe you want to turn on 6 hours after few weeks change to 8 hours, then after a month you can change it to 10 hours.
You might want to take photos of your algae, there are many type of black algae.
Are you using CO2 regulator or the manual regulator? It is normal for manual regulator to have unstable output, cannot be help.
Planted tank is slow process, you wont see anything change within 2 days. Red plant turn green can be because of light and/or iron. Remember those red plant you buy from LFS is grown under sunlight, which is many-many time brighter than you 55W.
Oh My, Then I Need To Get A Timer To Control My Light So It Switch Off After 10 Hours Huh.ShadowYou should not turn on your light more that 10 hours a day. Initial week maybe you want to turn on 6 hours after few weeks change to 8 hours, then after a month you can change it to 10 hours.
You might want to take photos of your algae, there are many type of black algae.
Are you using CO2 regulator or the manual regulator? It is normal for manual regulator to have unstable output, cannot be help.
Planted tank is slow process, you wont see anything change within 2 days. Red plant turn green can be because of light and/or iron. Remember those red plant you buy from LFS is grown under sunlight, which is many-many time brighter than you 55W.
I Am A Bit Relief Because I Bought A Few Oto, And They Kinda Help Clean The plant More. Rather I'll Try Take Pictures Of The Algae On the Leaf And Post.
I Bought Sea Chem Florish / Potassium / Phosphorus / Nitrogen.
Is The Coverage Enough For My plants ? Hmmz, Guess I Should Find The Plant Name Of My Plant As Well.
Co2 Regulator Wise, I Used The Manual One, Indeed Quite Unstable, Previously It Has Leak At The 1Way Valve Tube Connection, Thus The Whole Canister Emptied In 4 Week With No Co2 Injection While I Am Out At Work.
Refilled Yesterday, Check Free Of Leak, So Far Co2 Level Hasn't Drop. Hope There Is Consistent Co2 Injection.
The I guess it probably diatom, Otos only help cleaning diatom and not other algae
I finally had the time to upload the photos.
I was unable to upload the photos right into the message box, please bare with me to click on the links.
Bros & Sis, Do Teach me and enlighten me.
Why is my plant like that.
2ft tank 15gal 44l
I use Seachem Flourish/N/P/K+API Leaf zone (since saturday)
Canister co2 At 1bps.
55watt light on fr 7-10pm (i know i shouldn't, I had bought a timer just today already, setting it at 7-11am & 6-10pm)
PH rather high at near 8
Ammonia & Nitrite 0
Nitrate 40
KH nearly 240 (omg!)
substrate is purely small gravel (some say sands) 1.5" to 2" thick.
Please help me ID the plants thgank you very much.
1)http://www.flickr.com/photos/shunkun...n/photostream/
The one at back is water wisteria?
2)http://www.flickr.com/photos/shunkun...n/photostream/
This is java fern?
3)http://www.flickr.com/photos/shunkun...n/photostream/
I dunno about this 2.
4)http://www.flickr.com/photos/shunkun...n/photostream/
Is this rotala magenta(macranda)??
the algae on the 1st picture is BBA. None algae eater will eat it. Normally due to inconsistent CO2
BBA is black beard or black brush(is the 2 the same thing)? or something I don't know?
If it's black brush I thought S.A.E will eat ?
I've since increase co2 to 1.5bps, do you think it will help?
you need small SAE and starve them. To speed up the process, you can trim the infected leaf. You can use seachem excel to spot treat those BBA that grow on rocks or wood. And standard any algae remedy, clean your filter
You need to increase to the point where CO2 still available during photosynthesis peak period which is roughly 4 hours after light on. I do not know how well your CO2 mixed into the water. If you happen to have drop checker, aim for green-yellow. If not, you can try brute force by increase until you fish gasping for air and then turn in back down.
SAE will eat it... usually when they are younger. They do prefer fish food though so if you have been feeding them fish food they'll leave the BBA alone. For CO2 it is better to use a drop checker to monitor your CO2 levels, bps does not necessarily mean the amount of CO2 dissolved in the water. When my new tank got BBA, I used hydrogen peroxide and overdosing SeaChem Excel before. Hydrogen peroxide seems to work pretty well but do make sure you don't overdose or you may end up wiping out your livestock. Once my water parameters were stable, the BBA disappeared.
yes yes bros, Co2 bps really cannot tell how much my tank need. My head is getting bigger and bigger also lol.
I thought my co2 doesnt mix well in the water, i used the glass diffuser with ceramic plate, all the bubbles just float to the top of the water surface and hover there not popping. My tank water surface is full of bubbles always.
I've thought of what shadow bro said too; to increase Co2 till fish gasp for air. But how long does it take from start of adjusting to the point of the fish finally gasp for air at surface ? lol. few hours or some half day thinggy?
I saw my S.A.E eating the BBA, but for a good 1-2 day only, other time I just see it resting at the bottom not doing anything. Fish food wise, i add little at a time at the top when my black neon and cardinal will finish it up mostly before it drops to the bottom, so my S.A.E not having much chance at eating those haha.
whow~~ that means to say with BBA within, my tank is still not stable huh~~
Will be dropping by Seaview to get the drop checker when I'm available, to what i read it does not react with the tank water directly so it is quite accurate compared to using pk/kh chart method? How about those round color chat submerge in the tank ph checker? compared to the drop checker which needs to regularly change the 4kh solution every 2-3 weeks, drop checker is still better ?
Hi shunkun
I see that you have Seachem's Flourish and their NPK. I wrote a simple Seachem dosing calculator that you can use for your dosing. It is based on Microsoft's Office Excel software. http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/f...tor-chart.html
Left C
hi left c
thank you very much for the calsulater, maybe i will try it out, and hope for good result ^^
thanks once again :P
I hope that it helps you, shunkun. It sure beats pushing a pencil to calculate the dosing amounts.
Hi hi once again, any bros knows and had experience with these plant?
it seems like after a week of seachem dosing, the new leaves turn from original red to green. Im following Left_c bro's seachem dosing. daily iron and it's still green.
Full Tank :
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6070/...06cfbd56_b.jpg
Before :
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6192/...afa3dc66_b.jpg
After :
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6074/...732de99c_b.jpg
And why are there holes in the leaves, even when i bought it from LFS it already has holes. And the outer ring of the leaves has slight browning:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6083/...143449b7_b.jpg
What is the plant ID for the above 2 plant?
Thanks in advance for any guidance receive.
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