osullivanmichael2
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I hardly know where to start,
I have read so much on this forum and all over the Internet and still can't get on top of my bba outbreak!
My tank is approx 500l with sump and fairly heavily planted, I'm using easy life Ferts in the recommended quantities, and co2 till my my drop checker goes light green, and it's near the front corner near the bottom. I have 4 t5 54 watt light bulbs and two 47 watt t5 bulbs, these were running 7.5 hrs a day and are now on 6 hrs to see if it helped. It didn't,
Anyway the tank has been running for the last 7 years but only the last 6 months as a high tech planted tank. Before this it was a tanganyikan tropheus tank.
I did quite well for the first few months with only a minor gba outbreak that a 3 day blackout fixed. Life was good for another while till a month ago.
My only problem was that my red plants were a beautiful shade of GREEN. To remedy this I replaced two of my older bulbs with new daylite bulbs and fitted reflectors and started adding a half dose of easy life feero, this helped with my red plants and they did turn red but this was followed fairly rapidly by a massive bba outbreak on mainly hardscape but it is slowly progressing to some of my plants, any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Michael
I have read so much on this forum and all over the Internet and still can't get on top of my bba outbreak!
My tank is approx 500l with sump and fairly heavily planted, I'm using easy life Ferts in the recommended quantities, and co2 till my my drop checker goes light green, and it's near the front corner near the bottom. I have 4 t5 54 watt light bulbs and two 47 watt t5 bulbs, these were running 7.5 hrs a day and are now on 6 hrs to see if it helped. It didn't,
Anyway the tank has been running for the last 7 years but only the last 6 months as a high tech planted tank. Before this it was a tanganyikan tropheus tank.
I did quite well for the first few months with only a minor gba outbreak that a 3 day blackout fixed. Life was good for another while till a month ago.
My only problem was that my red plants were a beautiful shade of GREEN. To remedy this I replaced two of my older bulbs with new daylite bulbs and fitted reflectors and started adding a half dose of easy life feero, this helped with my red plants and they did turn red but this was followed fairly rapidly by a massive bba outbreak on mainly hardscape but it is slowly progressing to some of my plants, any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Michael