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Ok thanks for that, I'll give that a go......want to try and sort this out before a house move.

According to EI calc @ FluidsOnline the tank is 64 Ltrs, I have stayed with 50% water change, 2ml EasyCarbo, 30Ml EI Macro and 1ml of Profito for 5 days then rest for 2, have also reduced lighting to 3 hours. (30w Eco Aqua) What is noticeable is that the Crypts and the Helferi (the helferi is...

Ok.....have dealt with the 'film' issue before so should be able to get this sorted.

Well this is improving.....growth has increased so have been able to trim some of it as well, as most the algae was toward the top of the plants. However, I have been getting what I can only describe as a foam on top of the water...this is a new on me and googling suggest's protein? but the...

Thx I'll give it a go.....

It was something I picked up on from a journal.....2 lots of lighting periods. Ok I could try and leave it on for a single period of time and monitor it. Thx.

Has no one got any suggestions.... :(

This is becoming frustrating.....the 'dirty algae' is back....and it's appeared in a matter of a couple of days, with no C02 I have increased the Easycarbo dose....but I'm beginning to wonder if it's a lighting issue...an Eco Aqua Led on for 2x4hrs with a break of 2hrs.

Well......Sunday morning and it looked like Chernobyl....but the fish are Ok have rehoused these in the other tank....and started again.....bought some plants locally and JBL Aquasoil Plus, managed to rescue a couple of swords with a few new leaves and most of the crptys, albeit most had just a...

Re: ADA 60-P planted tank 'Prairie' (week 12, new photos) Hi, there is a journal about one those allpondsolutions.

Hm! It's not ammonia took a sample of water to a local lfs for testing, ammonia was 0.05ppm, there were 2 high reading's phosphate was off the chart, that's probably due to JI, and the ph was showing 8.4 higher than I expected would have expected lower due to the hardness of the water here.

Never thought of ammonia, although the fish are showing no signs of stress, the "dirty algae" hits the nail on the head, as the second tank which has just 4 plants in it in pots gets diatoms and that's just a dust both on the glass and the plants and that's easy to remove. I'm hoping that one of...

Decided last week to totally start from scratch, but kept all the plants, water, filter etc, temporarily re housed the fish. Used 2cm of John Innes No3 as the base covered with greenhouse mesh and topped with the original gravel (washed) 2cm's. Appears to have been a total mistake, the outbreak...

Can't remember who posted this but have bought some from here hope that helps.

With all the help I received over this I thought I would update....for some unknown reason the original site in Romania was first suspended then closed...no one knows why. So I had to start from scratch using some of my own web space, which also mean't registering a new domain, initially I used...