How to balance up tank setting?

[HeartlessJack]

Hi people!! I have just started plant and I am already having so many algae in my tank, they are killing most of my plant~

I have read on lots of post and many says that in order to control the algae from taking over the tank, it has to be balance, but what does it mean?

My tank setting is as below:

-1.5ft tank
-2 Tube T5 light
-hang over filter
-DIY Co2 (will remove if my carpet cover up the tank)

I have also keep Otto, black mollie, and sneils to help me with the algae problem but it seems that it not working~

Is there anyone here that can give me some advice?

[Shadow]

what is your substrate? is your substrate fertile? do you dose liquid fert? how many hours a day your light on? how many watt is your light? how many bps is your CO2? what algae are you having? photos would be great.

[opt1c8n]

Overfeeding is a pretty big contributing factor to algae.. I would reduce feeding first and re evaluate

[HeartlessJack]

Hi shadow
-I'm using just H.E.L.P soil only
-no liquit fert
-light is on 12hours a day (due to my hours of work)
-I'm not very sure how many watt
-I'm have 1 bubble every sec
-there is beard algae, dust algae, hair algae, green spot algae in the tank

I will try to upload photo ASAP, please give some advice as I'm very noob~ thanks

[HeartlessJack]

Hi opt1c8n, I never feed them before as they are feeding on the algae

[xconnect.]

This time u need buy a lot of yamatos to eat all of those for you XD

[Shadow]

you light is too long especially if it new setup, try maximum 10 hours. If new setup reduce it to 6 hours a day. Dust and green spot is normally due to light and ammonia spike. You need to balance your light, nutrient and CO2

Which HELP soil you use? because some model does not have nutrient in it.

[Peanut8787]

you light is too long especially if it new setup, try maximum 10 hours. If new setup reduce it to 6 hours a day. Dust and green spot is normally due to light and ammonia spike. You need to balance your light, nutrient and CO2

Which HELP soil you use? because some model does not have nutrient in it.

Not to be a wet blanket but the HELP soil really doesn't live up to it's name. It says maintain PH @ acidly parameter but ,y decomm tank PH keep shooting up to almost 7.2-7.3. Anyone having the same problem?

[mimin5zidane]

Not to be a wet blanket but the HELP soil really doesn't live up to it's name. It says maintain PH @ acidly parameter but ,y decomm tank PH keep shooting up to almost 7.2-7.3. Anyone having the same problem?

HELP soil degrades pretty fast. In less than 6 months the soils has turned powdery. I bought the normal sized grain by the way. pH wise, mine stayed arpund 6.2 to 6.8. However in the beginning, pH could drop as low as 5.8!