nry
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Okie dokie, 15UK gallon, 2x18w T8's on 6hrs per day (4-10pm). FloraBase substrate.
Pressurised CO2 as high as the fish will let me (on from 10am in the morning until lights off), and full dosage EI using TPN as trace.
TetraTec EX600 alongside Koralia Nano - all observations show the CO2 bubbles are getting blasted everywhere in the tank nicely.
After adding the Koralia about 2months ago, the front glass now stays 100% clear of diatoms, algae on the stem plants, crypts, staurogyne has 99% gone, just a touch left on some of the leaves very close to the substrate.
I'm still getting a reasonable growth of BBA and staghorn on the HC - I pick it out each week at the water change, but it is proving almost impossible to eradicate. I've never managed a carpet of HC in this tank (current and previous scapes) without some form of algae loving it, and I'd hoped the Koralia would sort things out but it seems not.
Am I perhaps missing something? The flow appears superb now, so unsure what the issue can be. Filter is cleaned every 4-weeks with dechlorinated water.
Pressurised CO2 as high as the fish will let me (on from 10am in the morning until lights off), and full dosage EI using TPN as trace.
TetraTec EX600 alongside Koralia Nano - all observations show the CO2 bubbles are getting blasted everywhere in the tank nicely.
After adding the Koralia about 2months ago, the front glass now stays 100% clear of diatoms, algae on the stem plants, crypts, staurogyne has 99% gone, just a touch left on some of the leaves very close to the substrate.
I'm still getting a reasonable growth of BBA and staghorn on the HC - I pick it out each week at the water change, but it is proving almost impossible to eradicate. I've never managed a carpet of HC in this tank (current and previous scapes) without some form of algae loving it, and I'd hoped the Koralia would sort things out but it seems not.
Am I perhaps missing something? The flow appears superb now, so unsure what the issue can be. Filter is cleaned every 4-weeks with dechlorinated water.