Hi everyone, anyone!,
I'm sure you've all heard this before, but i'm very new to this forum thing and aquascaping, and i need some help before i give it up as a failed attempt at perfection. to cut a long story short, i've had problems with Algae from the day i took the plunge to create a planted tank, I've received some great help from a specialist retailer and everything is great with my tank, infact i have a pair of breeding Electric blue Rams, that bred after 5 days of being purchased! (lucky to get a female?), However, Algae Algae Algae, I've had major problems with Hair Algae which disapeared after a 7 day blackout, i then stabilised my tank by sticking to one type of minerals and only using ADA brighty K and then Step 2, along with pressurised CO2 and x4 24w T5's, staggered at x2 for whole seven hours all four for 2 hours. The Algae is back with a vengence, it has targeted the same section of tank but has gone black and strand like not green and hair like.
The stem plants are OK, but the hair grass, lillaeopsis, tennelluss and substrate at the front is covered and it doesn't pull off as easy as the hair algae did. However the HC is growing????
do you think it is targeting the week plants after the blackout? circulation? (although i have a koralia and 950lph eheim on a 140ltr tank?) or could it be that im using step 2 after a blackout, should i have used step 1 for obvious reasons? , all i Know is that i have a tank i love when i look past the algae problems.
Any help or advise would be appreciated
Pete
I'm sure you've all heard this before, but i'm very new to this forum thing and aquascaping, and i need some help before i give it up as a failed attempt at perfection. to cut a long story short, i've had problems with Algae from the day i took the plunge to create a planted tank, I've received some great help from a specialist retailer and everything is great with my tank, infact i have a pair of breeding Electric blue Rams, that bred after 5 days of being purchased! (lucky to get a female?), However, Algae Algae Algae, I've had major problems with Hair Algae which disapeared after a 7 day blackout, i then stabilised my tank by sticking to one type of minerals and only using ADA brighty K and then Step 2, along with pressurised CO2 and x4 24w T5's, staggered at x2 for whole seven hours all four for 2 hours. The Algae is back with a vengence, it has targeted the same section of tank but has gone black and strand like not green and hair like.
The stem plants are OK, but the hair grass, lillaeopsis, tennelluss and substrate at the front is covered and it doesn't pull off as easy as the hair algae did. However the HC is growing????
do you think it is targeting the week plants after the blackout? circulation? (although i have a koralia and 950lph eheim on a 140ltr tank?) or could it be that im using step 2 after a blackout, should i have used step 1 for obvious reasons? , all i Know is that i have a tank i love when i look past the algae problems.
Any help or advise would be appreciated
Pete