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water cleared up.. but more green fluff.. what does this mean?
Hi all,
I posted earlier about trying to clear out a cloudy tank... Anyway, I did some minor regimen and now the tank is clear.. so it seems like the cloudiness was more of an algae thing and not a so much of a bacterial thing. This is what I did: 1. started to add Flourish Excel 2-3x week 2. started to be more routine about adding Flourish 2x week 3. started to add Flourish Iron whenever I add Flourish 4. reduced the amount of natural lighting (not completely out, but closed some of the shades) now, the cloudy water is gone, plants look great... but on high-brightness area, I have what seems to be combination of beard algae (dense short, furry stuff), thread algae (something green, thin, and long), and tufts of brown something (looks like a miniature stringy foxtail but it's more brown than green). the brown something seems under control (doesn't grow much), but the beard and the thin long algaes cover the brightly lit leaves rather quickly... so what does this mean? am I giving too much or too less of something? brightly lit = leaves that are closest to the lamp.. such as long leaves of the apongeton boivianus, older sword leaves, etc also, there were bunch of short (3mm), singlet strands of green filamental algae growing sparsely on one of the tank walls, so I scraped it out (the otos didn't seem like they were eating it, and it was getting a bit unsighly..). I don't know what algae that was. linda |
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water cleared up.. but more green fluff.. what does this mean?
linda mar wrote:
Hi all, I posted earlier about trying to clear out a cloudy tank... Anyway, I did some minor regimen and now the tank is clear.. so it seems like the cloudiness was more of an algae thing and not a so much of a bacterial thing. This is what I did: 1. started to add Flourish Excel 2-3x week 2. started to be more routine about adding Flourish 2x week 3. started to add Flourish Iron whenever I add Flourish 4. reduced the amount of natural lighting (not completely out, but closed some of the shades) You are making forward progress. Unfortunately, we cannot diagnose without the full range of tank parameters and measurements: Tank size, lighting, substrate, weekly water changes & water source KH, GH, pH NO3, Fe Fish load and plant load Any other chemicals added (make this one easy: just stop adding any buffers, pH adjusters, etc.) |
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water cleared up.. but more green fluff.. what does this mean?
Hi
1. started to add Flourish Excel 2-3x week 2. started to be more routine about adding Flourish 2x week 3. started to add Flourish Iron whenever I add Flourish 4. reduced the amount of natural lighting (not completely out, but closed some of the shades) You are making forward progress. Unfortunately, we cannot diagnose without the full range of tank parameters and measurements: Tank size, lighting, substrate, weekly water changes & water source KH, GH, pH NO3, Fe Fish load and plant load Any other chemicals added (make this one easy: just stop adding any buffers, pH adjusters, etc.) let's see.. tank size: 37G (with the thick gravel, it's actually about 30G actual volume) Temp: ~78-80F lighting: 55W CF (ahsupply retrofit) substrate: 2.5" thick pea-gravel UGF (I know.. very bad for plants) misc: two bog wood that leeches tannin (water is yellow..) water change: 20-25% biweekly (sort of averages out to about every 1.5weeks) water source: tap water conditioned using AP Plus+ KH=GH=3 (using AP test kit) pH = 7.5-ish (hard to tell since it's smack between the limit of the high and low range pH indicator) NO3 = unknown (test kit on the way) NH3, NO2=0ppm Fe = don't have test kit fish load: 2 lace gouramis (juveniles), 7 danios, 7 white cloud, 4 oto (and bunch of hydras and snails that I'm trying to pick out daily..) plants: 5 large swords (ozelot, amazon), ~8 crypts, bunch of foxtail, rotala indica, lysmacia, anacharis, anubias, A. boivianus bulb, 2 small sword plants (E. parviflorus?), java fern chemicals added: once in two days or so ~3ml flouish excel, 2x week ~1ml Fourish, 1-2x week ~1ml Flourish iron, each sword plants and the apongeton has Flourish Tab near its roots. no buffers or adjusters.. just plain ol tap... linda |
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water cleared up.. but more green fluff.. what does this mean?
I guess I should add "short arms" in addition to vertically challenged.
[grin] even when on step stool, i can *barely* reach the gravel surface, and the surface is about 2" thick from the bottom of the tank. lowering water level helps in that I don't have to be wearing tanktops to avoid getting wet clothes (huh.. I wonder if term "tank top" has any correlation!). Most of time time I am trimming plants by feel, and "blind" since I can't watch and reach into the tank at the same time. looking through the water from above gives too much distortion, and I've smacked my nose/face onto the tank rim when I try to look while reaching the bottom. I can't reach down while looking from the side (thank goodness for those landscaping kit scissors!).. :-P linda "LeighMo" wrote in message ... given the tank depth, it will be a pretty large job for me... (22" deep.. I'm rather vertically challenged, so...) sigh. next time :-) Lower the water level and stand on a stool or stepladder. I'm vertically challenged, too, and there are some plants I can only reach during my weekly water changes, when I remove 30% of the water from the tank. Leigh http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/halloween/881/ |
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water cleared up.. but more green fluff.. what does this mean?
I guess I should add "short arms" in addition to vertically challenged.
[grin] even when on step stool, i can *barely* reach the gravel surface, You need a taller stool. g lowering water level helps in that I don't have to be wearing tanktops to avoid getting wet clothes (huh.. I wonder if term "tank top" has any correlation!). LOL! I, too, wear tank tops to work in my tank. Sometimes, if no one else is home, I work shirtless. I don't mind my shirt getting wet; for me, lowering the water level means being able to reach all the way to the bottom of the tank without my face going underwater. Maybe I should get a snorkel... Leigh http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/halloween/881/ |
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