Looking for plants (I pay for s/h)
Hello Almazick
I would seriously consider taking Dave Millmans advice, it is very sound. I
too have been where you are and I did go the "REDO" route, but if I knew
then what I knew now I never would have redone the tank. You need to go and
research on how to balance the tank between plants nutrients and lights. I
cant stress this enough, once you get the hang of fertilisers it all becomes
so much easier. There will always be a little algae in all our tanks, you
can't get rid of it 100%. As the famous Mr. Tom Barr says "concentrate on
growing the plants not the algae"........
At worst you should do a tank blackout for 3-5 days. This will also give
your plants a head start on the algae.
Regards
Cam
"-=Almazick=-" wrote in message
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Well the algae doesn't grow anymore but the old one keeps growing. I cut
all the plants but still just a small algae keeps growing and growing. I
almost don't have any algae anymore since I got CO2 but i'm getting tired.
I want the algae to be completely gone and the only way to kill the algae
just to throw away all the plants leave the tank with Algae Destroyer for
a
week and put new plants without any algae in my tank.
"Dave Millman" wrote in message
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-=Almazick=- wrote:
You helped me before but I need your help again. I want to start
from
the
beginning by throwing away all my plants and I hope I won't get any
algae in
the future. Thanks guys.
Please think about this. If you get your lighting, CO2 and nutrients
right, the
plants you have now will recover. the stem plants will send out new
stems,
the
others will develop new growth from their rhizomes, crowns or whatever.
The
algae will disappear, with some help from you (clean the glass, remove
what you
can, perhaps a blackout.)
If on the other hand you start a new tank from scratch without new plant
culture
techniques, then you can reasonably expect the outcome to be the same as
well.
This is hard to take. I know, my tank looked like crap for the second
year. Then
I took Tom Barr's advice, went back to basic principles, and my tank
looks
great
again. Hint: If your flourescent lights are more than 12 months old,
toss
them
before you toss your plants!
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