Evening all! Hope your all doing great now that winter is here!
So been having a few problems with the tank lately in terms of hair algea, was seems to be bba but can't tell if it's green or brown...
I'm pretty sure I did it all by myself! When I put the crs in a changed the hardness of the water with two big water changes on consecutive days, (I screwed up the first day and rectified the second) thus taking all co2 and nutrients out of the water. My monte carlo is growing okay but the underneath is going brown (trimmed it a few times)
Leafs on other plants have holes in too.
Tank mates are 19 amano.
22 high grade f1 crs.
And a few red ramshorn snails.
I'm a newb and I'll gladly take a roasting if I'm doing something really wrong as I'd love nothing more than a healthy tank! If you need any more info then just ask!
Tank is a trigon 190 (horrible for flow)
Co2 is 1:30pm - 8pm
6.35kg bottle with co2art Bazooka Diffuser on centre of left face(soon to be changed to inline up from co2art)
Lights 2x 28 watt natural daylight bulbs. 3pm - 9pm
Filtration - fluval 405 with spraybar on back right wall facing horizontal.
300lph pump bottom right front concern.
1000lph power head top back centre facing towards front right on just below half power.
Dose ei ferts at 40ml per day but changing it down as I need a new regime so it doesn't drive the tds as high.
Tds - 200
Gh - 5
Kh - 2
Ph - 6.2
I use remineralised ro water.
Thanks so much for taking the time to read that wall of text,
Matt.
So been having a few problems with the tank lately in terms of hair algea, was seems to be bba but can't tell if it's green or brown...
I'm pretty sure I did it all by myself! When I put the crs in a changed the hardness of the water with two big water changes on consecutive days, (I screwed up the first day and rectified the second) thus taking all co2 and nutrients out of the water. My monte carlo is growing okay but the underneath is going brown (trimmed it a few times)
Leafs on other plants have holes in too.
Tank mates are 19 amano.
22 high grade f1 crs.
And a few red ramshorn snails.
I'm a newb and I'll gladly take a roasting if I'm doing something really wrong as I'd love nothing more than a healthy tank! If you need any more info then just ask!
Tank is a trigon 190 (horrible for flow)
Co2 is 1:30pm - 8pm
6.35kg bottle with co2art Bazooka Diffuser on centre of left face(soon to be changed to inline up from co2art)
Lights 2x 28 watt natural daylight bulbs. 3pm - 9pm
Filtration - fluval 405 with spraybar on back right wall facing horizontal.
300lph pump bottom right front concern.
1000lph power head top back centre facing towards front right on just below half power.
Dose ei ferts at 40ml per day but changing it down as I need a new regime so it doesn't drive the tds as high.
Tds - 200
Gh - 5
Kh - 2
Ph - 6.2
I use remineralised ro water.
Thanks so much for taking the time to read that wall of text,
Matt.