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Interrupted Daytime Lighting Advice
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 |
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