Hi everyone
I basically have a brown film (99% sure it's diatoms) covering most of my hardscape and foreground plants. But what I'm not sure of is this hair/cobweb looking stuff that's starting to smother my substrate, it would be impossible to manually remove all of it.
Also most of my S repens are dropping most of their leaves. What's going on?
The tank has been running about 2-3 months but had a replant roughly 3 weeks ago. I really feel I've covered most of the bases, so it's quite disheartening this is happening. Feedback would be appreciated.
Cheers
Juwel Rio 125
Stock 22w LEDs. 6 hours duration.
Internal pump upgraded to 1000lph
Biohome filter media
Fluval co2 diffuser placed inside filter, co2 art system, 40psi, 4ish bubbles per sec. Start 4 hours before lights on, end 2 hours before lights off. Bubble green at lights on, fish seem fine.
Aquasoil powder, 4ml TNC complete daily
70%ish water change, filter sponges cleaned, glass scraped etc etc weekly
10 rasboras, 13 tetras, 4 Amano and 10ish cherry shrimp
Siamensis 53b, lebelia cardinalis, s repens, lilaeopsis brasiliensis.
I basically have a brown film (99% sure it's diatoms) covering most of my hardscape and foreground plants. But what I'm not sure of is this hair/cobweb looking stuff that's starting to smother my substrate, it would be impossible to manually remove all of it.
Also most of my S repens are dropping most of their leaves. What's going on?
The tank has been running about 2-3 months but had a replant roughly 3 weeks ago. I really feel I've covered most of the bases, so it's quite disheartening this is happening. Feedback would be appreciated.
Cheers
Juwel Rio 125
Stock 22w LEDs. 6 hours duration.
Internal pump upgraded to 1000lph
Biohome filter media
Fluval co2 diffuser placed inside filter, co2 art system, 40psi, 4ish bubbles per sec. Start 4 hours before lights on, end 2 hours before lights off. Bubble green at lights on, fish seem fine.
Aquasoil powder, 4ml TNC complete daily
70%ish water change, filter sponges cleaned, glass scraped etc etc weekly
10 rasboras, 13 tetras, 4 Amano and 10ish cherry shrimp
Siamensis 53b, lebelia cardinalis, s repens, lilaeopsis brasiliensis.