Absolutely agree with it, I've been reading this group for a long
time, and the best thing I've picked up here is "to focus on the
good". Recently I had a medium size thread algae outbreak, I
immediately check the parameters and figured that I have excessive
iron (or other trace elements, possibly), and 0 readings on almost
everything else. I reduced daily dosing of traces, but the iron just
keep rising, and algae problem was getting worse. I then began to
increase my KCl, KNO3 dosing, and after a couple of days, also
increased the frequency and amount of K2HPO4 dosing; and began to
supplement CO3, Ca and Mg. About a week later, I had to boost up my
CO2 injection to keep the pH below 7 during day time (usually it's 6.4
right after light turned on, and 6.8 right before). And the odd thing
is plants sucking up so much CO2 that even I increased the CO2
injection a lot, pH still stand at roughly 6.7 - 6.8. And the good
news is that the thread algae's almost completely disappeared.

However, I have otherr worries... its hard to keep the growth rate
like this, i.e. a lot of work. But I am afraid of that if I slowly
reduce the growth rate, algae might just reappear, but that's another
story.

Anyway, it works.

Cheers
Kenneth

"Happy'Cam'per" wrote in message ...
Grow the plants well and give them what they need, and you do not have
algae issues.
So focus on the plants, not the algae.

I love your attitude Tom. You strike me as a very chilled out kind of bloke.
It's amazing what that little bit of advice from you did to my tanks,
they're far from perfect yet but a hellofalot better than they were. Focus
on the good and not the bad JA? Cool bananas, works for me

Regards
Cameron

regards,
Tom Barr