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algae all over
What I love about usenet newsgroups is that you can ask a question and
then read the discussion. william kossack wrote: After running a 65 gallon free water planted tank for a year I got tired of buying plants and decided that maybe my 40 watt florecent light was not enough light to keep amazon swords growing (unfortunately most local stores sell large numbers of sword plants and not much else). When we would buy new plants they would live but not really grow and we would eventually have to replace them as the leaves got chewed up. I upgraded my lights to a pair of 55 watt florecent lights from ahsupply.com and bam! Everything was covered with algae. I also started using a mineral supplement someones recommendation. I live in Denver and I think they implied the need for more iron than the local tap water would provide. I'd been doing normal water changes and I did not think my nitrate was too high but I decided to increase to daily water changes to get the nitrate down further (it started at about 20 ppm and its now about 5ppm and falling). The amount of algae is less but it is still present. All of the old plants took a real hit from the algae. I had some long filiments along all the edges of the plants. It looked almost red in color. However that stuff is gone as well as the leaves that it was groing on. I've introduced algae eating shrimp, a few different smaller algae eaters and even an apple snail (my clown loaches gobble up anything smaller than an apple snail). However most of the plants have a green covering of fuzzy algae and some new plants look like they are getting it also. Should I continue with the water changes? How low should I bring the nitrates down? Or should I take other measures to get my display tank back in line? |
algae all over
(Victor M. Martinez) wrote in message ...
wrote: Adding Excel _is_ adding a carbon source. That's not a non CO2 tank. It is a carbon source, but it's not CO2. IIRC, it's some sort of sugar molecule. Instructions are to use it daily, but I use it once a week. It *is* a non-CO2 tank. Yea, I should stuck with the carbon source all the way, it is not a non carbon enriched tank and perhaps only about 1/3 the week at most. Then it's a non carbon enriched tank. I don't fertilize my non CO2/carbon tank at all including traces etc. I also don't do water changes, I only top off the tank and do a cleaning once every 3-6 months. Come to think of it, the tank doesn't even have a light so it's a non artificial light, non CO2/carbon source tank. Sits in the window. Regards, Tom Barr |
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