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Looks like green BBA Which loves high light, high flow Maybe the rock it's on is trapping the spores and the high light and high flow (?) is encouraging it to grow. What are your light parameters (intensity/duration) and temperature? Do you have fluctuating temperature (for instance during...

How often / how much Prime do you dose?

Presence of ammonia/ammonium and anoxic conditions (lack of oxygen) is known to reduce spore germination, not increase it. Pollutants, such as heavy metals (Hg, Cu, Cr, Co, Zn, Pb, etc.), pesticides or insecticides (carbofuran, 2,4-D, dithane, phorate, bavistin, parathion, etc.), sewage...

I have a tub of Seachem Equilibrium and an existing GH of 6, is there any point in dosing this stuff? I only ask because I'm switching back to EI after a couple years of TPN+ and I keep reading about people dosing GH Booster as well as the nutrient calculator I am using saying I should dose GH...

The black/brown stuff is probably Audouinella Heterospora because this guy seems to have induced it's gametophyte Thorea Hispida. http://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/is-this-algae.37322/ The green stuff isn't Audouinella, I suspect it's Batrachosporum Macrosporum. Distinguishing Audouinella...

I've had this, I reckon it grows in the filter pipes, detaches and then get's stuck in a spraybar hole. Despite this, it's never grown in the tank even when most of the spraybar holes were blocked up with it. I stopped using a spraybar a week ago and yesterday I saw a big clump of BBA just...

Assuming you have everything setup correctly, flow, nutrients, lighting etc when your lights come on, the tank should maintain a reasonably stable pH - the CO2 being injected should be countered by both the CO2 escaping and the CO2 being used by the plants. So bps should be whatever results in a...

You might have too much CO2 for those fish. I have similiar issues with Clown Loaches, they seem alot more sensitive to CO2 that the other fish I have. Fish distress is due to both CO2 (hypercapnia) and O2 (hypoxia). You can address both by decreasing CO2 and/or increasing O2. You shouldn't...

It's not BBA, it's the wrong colour for diatoms and I doubt that it's the green algae on the rock dying. Maybe it's something leeching out of the rock?

Actually the opposite is true, plants are known to produce hormones that stimulate spore germination in some algae. Plant hormones such as indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), naphthalene-2-acetic acid (NAA), gibberellic acid (GA3), kinetin, and tryptophan (a precusor of...

Think about it, his test kit shows zero in the tank, if he can get his test kit to show non-zero then it's not faulty, but if he tests the tap water and that also shows zero then it's inconclusive which is why I included the caveat "If it does [register some value]"

It's based on maximum plant uptake so if dosed correctly you can't run out.

yes EI adds nitrate, enough that you can't run out so it sounds like something is up with your dosing! Check if your test kit shows any nitrate in the tap water? If it does then you can rule out the test kit as being wrong.

Yes it does look similiar to Thorea hispida, which makes sense because Thorea hispida is the gametophyte stage of the BBA that you have there, Audouinella heterospora.

yes, although 'Chantransia' stages are phycocyanin and chlorophyll a it does look more like a moss, or well grazed BBA under high light