I have a couple of types of algae in my tank atm and looking for IDS. Plants are mostly growing happy, I did a big trim yesterday. Looking for some recommendations from people on what to change to prevent/remove the algae. It's not overwhelming atm but seems to be slowly getting a bit worse.
1. Size of tank plus age/duration of the set - up.
60p size, set up originally 3 months ago but rescaped with a complete tank drain 2 weeks ago.
2. Filtration.
Eheim Classic 350/2215. 10x tank turnover by design. 1 x eheim sponge, 100 ml purigen, filter floss and the rest seachem matrix
ADA Vuppa II. 3x tank turnover by design.
3. Lighting and duration.
ADA Aquasky RGB, 10 hours
Lifx Z strip backlight, 12 hours (first and last hours are linear ramp 0-100%)
4. Substrate.
2 L ADA Power Sand Advance S
9 L ADA Amazonia II
6 L ADA Amazonia Powder (3 L added 2 weeks ago)
5. Co2 dosing or Non-dosing.
Pressurised CO@
6. Fertilizers used + Ratios.
Per day
3 ml ADA Neutral Brighty K
3 ml ADA Brighty Mineral
1 ml ADA Brighty Iron
1.5 ml Seachem Excel (or 7.5 ml after water change)
7. Water change regime.
50% per week
8. Plant list + When planted.
Heavily planted on day 1 in June, very heavily planted 2 weeks ago
Micranthemum 'Monte Carlo'
Hygrophila 'Araguaia'
Staurogyne repenes
Limnophila 'Vietnam'
Hydrocotyle tripartita 'Japan'
Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Tropica'
Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Mi Oya'
Cryptocoryne becketti 'Petchii'
Blyxa japonica
Alternanthera reineckii 'Mini'
Taxiphyllum barbieri
Anubias barteri var. nana
Hygrophila pinnatafida
Rotala 'Green'
Rotala 'H'ra'
Rotala 'Colorata'
Rotala rotundifolia
Rotala macrandra 'Green'
Micranthemum micranthemoides
Ludwigia acruata
Ludwigia 'Super Red Mini'
Myriophyllum mattogrossense
9. Inhabitants.
2 Blue Rams
5 Emperor tetra
12 Cardinal tetra
12 Ember tetra
5 Otocinclus
Caridina longirostris
Caridinides wilkinsi
~15 Clithon oualaniensis
10. Full tank shot
CO2 is on in the pics (in-line diffuser) hence the bubbles.
First 2 algae pics you can see a couple of the worst affected leaves - some sort of blue/green hair algae and some green spot algae. These are only affecting foreground/midground plants and probably worse towards the front/mid left of the tank. There might be a bit of it in the monte carlo too.
Second 2 algae pics you can see some kind of white to blue/green algae affecting the moss. This is primarily affecting the right-most branch that reaches the top of the tank. The other branches are pretty much free of it.
1. Size of tank plus age/duration of the set - up.
60p size, set up originally 3 months ago but rescaped with a complete tank drain 2 weeks ago.
2. Filtration.
Eheim Classic 350/2215. 10x tank turnover by design. 1 x eheim sponge, 100 ml purigen, filter floss and the rest seachem matrix
ADA Vuppa II. 3x tank turnover by design.
3. Lighting and duration.
ADA Aquasky RGB, 10 hours
Lifx Z strip backlight, 12 hours (first and last hours are linear ramp 0-100%)
4. Substrate.
2 L ADA Power Sand Advance S
9 L ADA Amazonia II
6 L ADA Amazonia Powder (3 L added 2 weeks ago)
5. Co2 dosing or Non-dosing.
Pressurised CO@
6. Fertilizers used + Ratios.
Per day
3 ml ADA Neutral Brighty K
3 ml ADA Brighty Mineral
1 ml ADA Brighty Iron
1.5 ml Seachem Excel (or 7.5 ml after water change)
7. Water change regime.
50% per week
8. Plant list + When planted.
Heavily planted on day 1 in June, very heavily planted 2 weeks ago
Micranthemum 'Monte Carlo'
Hygrophila 'Araguaia'
Staurogyne repenes
Limnophila 'Vietnam'
Hydrocotyle tripartita 'Japan'
Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Tropica'
Cryptocoryne wendtii 'Mi Oya'
Cryptocoryne becketti 'Petchii'
Blyxa japonica
Alternanthera reineckii 'Mini'
Taxiphyllum barbieri
Anubias barteri var. nana
Hygrophila pinnatafida
Rotala 'Green'
Rotala 'H'ra'
Rotala 'Colorata'
Rotala rotundifolia
Rotala macrandra 'Green'
Micranthemum micranthemoides
Ludwigia acruata
Ludwigia 'Super Red Mini'
Myriophyllum mattogrossense
9. Inhabitants.
2 Blue Rams
5 Emperor tetra
12 Cardinal tetra
12 Ember tetra
5 Otocinclus
Caridina longirostris
Caridinides wilkinsi
~15 Clithon oualaniensis
10. Full tank shot
CO2 is on in the pics (in-line diffuser) hence the bubbles.
First 2 algae pics you can see a couple of the worst affected leaves - some sort of blue/green hair algae and some green spot algae. These are only affecting foreground/midground plants and probably worse towards the front/mid left of the tank. There might be a bit of it in the monte carlo too.
Second 2 algae pics you can see some kind of white to blue/green algae affecting the moss. This is primarily affecting the right-most branch that reaches the top of the tank. The other branches are pretty much free of it.
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