drooke
Member
Hi all,
I've recently moved from a 125L tank to a 350L tank - I had some algae issues in the previous tank and want to get them resolved for the new tank. I'm hoping you may be able to help me.
The new tank holds 350L, I have 10L Tropica Plant Substrate capped with about 45KG of play sand. Temperature is about 22-23C with pH of about 7.
Lighting
The lighting is 120W in total with the photo period (currently reduced to help with algae):
60W 16.00 - 21.00
60W 17.00 - 22.00
Filtration/Circulation
1 x Eheim 2128 Thermo
1 x Hydor Koralia Evo Nano
1 x Hydor Koralia Evo 4000 (17.00 - 21.00)
Plants
I don't have many plants:
Fertilisers
10ml of Tropica Plant Nutrition+ a week
Fish
I have:
I've attached some photos of the algae after acculating for about 3 weeks. I think I have:
Everything I've read suggests that I need to use CO2 to get this under control. I would like to keep my ongoing costs low and so I'd like to stay low tech if possible. I will consider CO2 if significantly easier though. Please can you help?
I've recently moved from a 125L tank to a 350L tank - I had some algae issues in the previous tank and want to get them resolved for the new tank. I'm hoping you may be able to help me.
The new tank holds 350L, I have 10L Tropica Plant Substrate capped with about 45KG of play sand. Temperature is about 22-23C with pH of about 7.
Lighting
The lighting is 120W in total with the photo period (currently reduced to help with algae):
60W 16.00 - 21.00
60W 17.00 - 22.00
Filtration/Circulation
1 x Eheim 2128 Thermo
1 x Hydor Koralia Evo Nano
1 x Hydor Koralia Evo 4000 (17.00 - 21.00)
Plants
I don't have many plants:
- 2 x large Amazon swords (15+" tall)
- 5 x smaller Amazon swords
- 20ish Blyxa Japonica
- 5 stems of Rotala Green Sp.
Fertilisers
10ml of Tropica Plant Nutrition+ a week
Fish
I have:
- 4 x Angel fish
- 4 x German Rams
- 2 x Dwarf Rainbow fish
- 5 x Lemon tetras
- 4 x Neon Tetras
- 2 x Platy
- 17 x Corys
I've attached some photos of the algae after acculating for about 3 weeks. I think I have:
- Green/Brown dust algae
- Hair algae
- Some BBA too on plants
Everything I've read suggests that I need to use CO2 to get this under control. I would like to keep my ongoing costs low and so I'd like to stay low tech if possible. I will consider CO2 if significantly easier though. Please can you help?