Reply With QuotePlease give us more info on your tank. such as tank size and the water parameters such as PH, KH, N03, P04 and etc. Perhaps then someone will be able to advice you.
I've recently did some major pruning and increase my co2 to 30ppm. My lighting is 11 hrs. 4 x 40 watts fl.
The BBA has reduced, but still got some growing on some of the leaves. But the main thing now is there are a lot of those green coloured fur/hair looking like stuff on the driftwood. And these stuff are also growing on the leaves of some of the plants too. And growing increasing a lot too!!!
After the pruning the last time, I wanted to dose some fertilisers but don't know how to do it correctly and was afraid to dose the fertilisers (N,K, etc) cause I scared might get the algae growing like mad house if I dont' do it correctly.
Any advice on what I should do from now?
Please give us more info on your tank. such as tank size and the water parameters such as PH, KH, N03, P04 and etc. Perhaps then someone will be able to advice you.
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Sorry, missed out those infos.
Size : 4 x 1.5 x 2
Ph : between 6 - 6.5
KH : 3
Nitrite : 0
Nitrate : 0
Ammonia : 0
Hope somebody can advise. Thanks!
NO3 could be between 5 - 10ppm
PO4 could be between 0.5-1ppm
KH would be nice to increase to 4 to reduce chances of PH swing between CO on and off periods. [:]
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Sleepy_lancs
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An afternoon trimming my watery garden is better
then an afternoon with a therapist
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My tank has experienced a suddenly explosion of those green algae that grow on my moss, driftwood and tanks' glass. So I added 50 Yamatos in and within a couple of hours my driftwood is as clean as the first day I place it in the tank.
Corydoras: 2 x adolfoi, 1 x agassizii, 5 x albino aeneus, 3 x arcuatus, 4 x atropersonatus, 3 x axelrodi, 6 x axelrodi variante B, 4 x caudimaculatus, 5 x duplicareus, 8 x goldlines, 3 x kanei, 3 x loretoensis, 6 x melini, 4 x panda, 6 x schwartzi, 3 x similis, 4 x sterbai, 4 x surinamensis, 5 x trilineatus, 4 x tukano & 3 x zygatus
RIP 1 x adolfoi, 1 x albino aeneus & 2 x panda
Hmm.. just beware of your shrimps turning against your fine leaves plants... kekek.. mine did. And the plant had to be removed.
Cheerio,
Sleepy_lancs
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An afternoon trimming my watery garden is better
then an afternoon with a therapist
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I feed the shrimps Tubifex worm also.
Corydoras: 2 x adolfoi, 1 x agassizii, 5 x albino aeneus, 3 x arcuatus, 4 x atropersonatus, 3 x axelrodi, 6 x axelrodi variante B, 4 x caudimaculatus, 5 x duplicareus, 8 x goldlines, 3 x kanei, 3 x loretoensis, 6 x melini, 4 x panda, 6 x schwartzi, 3 x similis, 4 x sterbai, 4 x surinamensis, 5 x trilineatus, 4 x tukano & 3 x zygatus
RIP 1 x adolfoi, 1 x albino aeneus & 2 x panda
i got shrimps and ottos but they are not interested in the algae. funny thing is the green algae is actually bubbling. it looks like the algae you see on the driftwood in NA's main tank in the shop.
Not good! The only Algae I know that bubbles is BGA!!! this fellow super fast grower and will over run you tank in a few days time. Then again I maybe wrong.
Does it look like that? or
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Lots of other algae bubble/pearl too.
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Pump in more CO2 and you will see other algae bubble themselves dead.----------------
On 12/16/2003 5:18:18 PM
Not good! The only Algae I know that bubbles is BGA!!! this fellow super fast grower and will over run you tank in a few days time. Then again I maybe wrong.
Does it look like that? or
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Resistance is futile, you will be administrated!
NO3 at zero is not good. The recommended values as indicated above by sleepy_lancs.
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On 12/16/2003 1:35:16 PM
NO3 could be between 5 - 10ppm
PO4 could be between 0.5-1ppm
KH would be nice to increase to 4 to reduce chances of PH swing between CO on and off periods. [:
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Not true. More KH does not reduce the chance of pH swing. As long as you have at least 1dKH, its sufficient to reduce the range of pH swing. At higher levels, the range is still the same. The difference is that the starting and ending pH values of the range are higher at higher values of KH.
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