spleenharvester
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I've got 3 tanks:
Below is a picture of tank #3 after only 1 week since a water change. Algae gets all over the substrate, glass and plants, no matter how hard I try and keep it clean. All tanks have the same water source. I've tried PhosGuard as the phosphate levels are a bit high in my tank water (~0.25ppm), which stalled algae growth for a couple of weeks but then it just bounced straight back.
Any ideas? Tired of dealing with this, it should really have stabilised by now like my main tank.
Details:
1. Size of tank in litres. See above
2. Age of the setup. See above
3. Filtration. Tank #1 is 600lph. Tank #2 is 500lph. Tank #3 is 250lph.
4. Lighting and duration. Tank #3 has the standard Fluval LED light. All tanks have about 8 hour photoperiod, though I've previous experimented with 4 hours to no avail.
5. Substrate. Sand in all tanks
6. Co2 dosing or Non-dosing. Tank #1 and #2 have DIY CO2, tank #3 has no CO2
7. Fertilizers used & Ratios. - All TNC Complete, 1mL/10L weekly
8. Water change regime and type. All generally 30-40% weekly
9. Plant list + When planted. Cryptocoryne, can't remember the others to be honest
10. Inhabitants. Bettas, otocinclus
11. Temperature - 27~
- Main tank (180L) - struggled severely with algae to begin with but stabilised after a year
- Second tank (80L) - only a few months old, struggling with the same green algae as tank #3
- Tank 3 (20L) - two years old, still having awful algae problems
Below is a picture of tank #3 after only 1 week since a water change. Algae gets all over the substrate, glass and plants, no matter how hard I try and keep it clean. All tanks have the same water source. I've tried PhosGuard as the phosphate levels are a bit high in my tank water (~0.25ppm), which stalled algae growth for a couple of weeks but then it just bounced straight back.
Any ideas? Tired of dealing with this, it should really have stabilised by now like my main tank.
Details:
1. Size of tank in litres. See above
2. Age of the setup. See above
3. Filtration. Tank #1 is 600lph. Tank #2 is 500lph. Tank #3 is 250lph.
4. Lighting and duration. Tank #3 has the standard Fluval LED light. All tanks have about 8 hour photoperiod, though I've previous experimented with 4 hours to no avail.
5. Substrate. Sand in all tanks
6. Co2 dosing or Non-dosing. Tank #1 and #2 have DIY CO2, tank #3 has no CO2
7. Fertilizers used & Ratios. - All TNC Complete, 1mL/10L weekly
8. Water change regime and type. All generally 30-40% weekly
9. Plant list + When planted. Cryptocoryne, can't remember the others to be honest
10. Inhabitants. Bettas, otocinclus
11. Temperature - 27~