TL;DR How to respond to BBA when plants are still adapting from a dry start?
I flooded my 12L Tree Hill aquascape yesterday. Setup DIY Co2 with about 1.5bps to ease the plants into submerged life. Turned my photoperiod down to 4 hours. Woke up this morning to BBA all over my DHG!
So I tested my water, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate were almost off the charts! I used a bucket of old tank water to flood the tank, it must have matured in the bucket!
So I spot treated the tank with liquid carbon and then did a 50% water change. The Co2 is on a solenoid but it fluctuates like crazy! Slows down to almost nothing and then I have to readjust the needle valve.
Oddly, the BBA isn't affecting the Ludwigia which receives more light.
What should I do? The plants need good conditions to recover from the dry start so I don't know if I should stop Co2 or not. A blackout will hit the BBA but the plants will suffer, same goes for hydrogen peroxide right?
I am thinking of getting an SAE for a couple of weeks just to clear the algae and give the plants a chance. I'm going away in 10 days so the tank MUST be somewhat stable!
I flooded my 12L Tree Hill aquascape yesterday. Setup DIY Co2 with about 1.5bps to ease the plants into submerged life. Turned my photoperiod down to 4 hours. Woke up this morning to BBA all over my DHG!
So I tested my water, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate were almost off the charts! I used a bucket of old tank water to flood the tank, it must have matured in the bucket!
So I spot treated the tank with liquid carbon and then did a 50% water change. The Co2 is on a solenoid but it fluctuates like crazy! Slows down to almost nothing and then I have to readjust the needle valve.
Oddly, the BBA isn't affecting the Ludwigia which receives more light.
What should I do? The plants need good conditions to recover from the dry start so I don't know if I should stop Co2 or not. A blackout will hit the BBA but the plants will suffer, same goes for hydrogen peroxide right?
I am thinking of getting an SAE for a couple of weeks just to clear the algae and give the plants a chance. I'm going away in 10 days so the tank MUST be somewhat stable!