Recent content by mario

Thanks for your answer. I didn't take a picture of the tank before the cleaning/rescaping. Afterwards it looks like this: Cheers

Hello everyone, I have a 90l superfish tank, no CO2, no fertilisation apart from the fish food, low lighting (superfish led 35w dimmed at 15%). The growth is slow but I don't mind, the problem is that most of the older leaves are covered in a black/greenish algae (see photo) It's easily...

The main tank has been neglected for some time, everything in there looked sad and covered in a layer of green/black slimy algae as in the picture. Which algae is it? It's easy to remove but not really practical, especially on the stems . I have removed all the stems and left basically just the...

The little tank has completely stolen my heart and distracted me from the bigger one! I have added some Lilaeopsis at the front to mask the increasingly legged stems (price to pay for emersed growth I guess). I have done an ammonia test as a chemistry game with my daughter and to my surprise it...

Some emersed growth

I have recently also set a little nano tank (around 10 l) with compost topped with sand and, guess it, a jungle that I hope will start growing out of the surface. Cheers, Alessandro

What a delightful journal! How is the tank doing these day?

Thanks! Next update in 6 months to notice any growth I guess 😂

Hello everyone, I have recently redone my long neglected tank, a Superfish Scaper 90. My goal is to have a low energy, low maintenance tank that I can enjoy for a long time. After my previous tank failed spectacularly, choked in algae (DIY CO2, I know, I know...), I lowered the light (from 50%...

Cheers everyone, I am very pleased with the tank at the moment too, and more so considering that it's topsoil substrate and yeast CO2...I hope it can find its balance in the long run.

Heteranthea zosterifolia I belive

Hi Garuf, do you mean this one: It's a Hygrophila ssp that grows quite slowly in height and develops big leaves.

Thanks @Hufsa and @Laoshan !

The summer meadow is slowly maturing: Still a bit of thread algae but nothing dramatic. Below a (backlit) FTS: Cheers, Mario

Hello everyone. The tank was getting overgrown so I did a big trim. Pictures of before and after: I also have some green filamentous algae. I have been a bit neglectful with maintenance recently so I hope that with regular water changes etc it might improve (or at least not get worse). Any...