ojustaboo
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Hi all, it was all going so well until I messed up.
Monday I moved wiring around inside cabinet, and it's possible (although I don't recall doing it) needle valve on CO2 got knocked,
On Tuesday, the day before my two weeks of 75% water changes were up, I was too ill to do a change, Just before the lights were due to go out, I noticed two things.
1) The drop checker didn't seem as green/yellow as it did. As I felt awful and lights were about to go off, decided to fix in the morning.
2) A tiny amount of hair algae, what I first noticed was strings of pearling that appeared to be in just water, but on closer inspection were fine strands of hair.
I removed all those I could straight away
Yesterday (Wednesday) I did 75% change and also cleaned pre filter. I quickly checked the entire filter just in case something affecting flow rate, gave trays a quick wash in bucket of tank water but didn't really need it.
I then checked the bubble counter and increased it approx double the amount to 4 or 5 bubbles a second.
The CO2 comes on at 10am and goes off at 8pm.
The lights were coming on at 2pm and going off at 10pm (8 hrs), yesterday I changed that so they come on at 3pm and go off at 9pm (6 hrs)
And I happily went to sleep for the rest of the morning (still feeling bad)
Was sitting there waiting for the lights to come on at 3pm, they came on fine, but the bubbles were going straight up from the diffuser, you've guessed it, in my tiredness, I had forgotten to plug the filter back in.
There was a small amount of hair algae, I removed what I could (but every time I looked I could see another bit etc), was kicking myself for forgetting to turn filter on.
Today (Thursday) everything went smoothly in that I did 75% water change, remembered to plug filter in.
Every time I do a water change I wipe front glass with sponge to get rid of the water bubbles.
Lights came on at 3pm, I didn't notice it at 3pm (not saying it wasn't there) but I noticed at at 4pm, algae on the diffuser tube, algae on the right side of the glass, algae on the front right hand side (almost right in the corner) and algae at the bottom of the front of the glass.
I've included pics of the hair algae taken a couple of days ago and a vid I took today.
I've since cleaned the front and side glass thoroughly and the diffuser pipe (also cleaned diffuser with toothbrush), I started to clean the back of the tank, but uprooted a couple of plants, so am scared to do it until they are more settled.
Even with 4 to 5 bubbles a sec, the drop checker isn't going yellow
Do I need to do anything else? Bit paranoid at the moment lol, never expected glass top go green when having (apart from the one day)_daily water changes. I'm obviously continuing with daily changes for now, wondered if something else is wrong somewhere?
Any suggestions please?
Many thanks
Monday I moved wiring around inside cabinet, and it's possible (although I don't recall doing it) needle valve on CO2 got knocked,
On Tuesday, the day before my two weeks of 75% water changes were up, I was too ill to do a change, Just before the lights were due to go out, I noticed two things.
1) The drop checker didn't seem as green/yellow as it did. As I felt awful and lights were about to go off, decided to fix in the morning.
2) A tiny amount of hair algae, what I first noticed was strings of pearling that appeared to be in just water, but on closer inspection were fine strands of hair.
I removed all those I could straight away
Yesterday (Wednesday) I did 75% change and also cleaned pre filter. I quickly checked the entire filter just in case something affecting flow rate, gave trays a quick wash in bucket of tank water but didn't really need it.
I then checked the bubble counter and increased it approx double the amount to 4 or 5 bubbles a second.
The CO2 comes on at 10am and goes off at 8pm.
The lights were coming on at 2pm and going off at 10pm (8 hrs), yesterday I changed that so they come on at 3pm and go off at 9pm (6 hrs)
And I happily went to sleep for the rest of the morning (still feeling bad)
Was sitting there waiting for the lights to come on at 3pm, they came on fine, but the bubbles were going straight up from the diffuser, you've guessed it, in my tiredness, I had forgotten to plug the filter back in.
There was a small amount of hair algae, I removed what I could (but every time I looked I could see another bit etc), was kicking myself for forgetting to turn filter on.
Today (Thursday) everything went smoothly in that I did 75% water change, remembered to plug filter in.
Every time I do a water change I wipe front glass with sponge to get rid of the water bubbles.
Lights came on at 3pm, I didn't notice it at 3pm (not saying it wasn't there) but I noticed at at 4pm, algae on the diffuser tube, algae on the right side of the glass, algae on the front right hand side (almost right in the corner) and algae at the bottom of the front of the glass.
I've included pics of the hair algae taken a couple of days ago and a vid I took today.
I've since cleaned the front and side glass thoroughly and the diffuser pipe (also cleaned diffuser with toothbrush), I started to clean the back of the tank, but uprooted a couple of plants, so am scared to do it until they are more settled.
Even with 4 to 5 bubbles a sec, the drop checker isn't going yellow
Do I need to do anything else? Bit paranoid at the moment lol, never expected glass top go green when having (apart from the one day)_daily water changes. I'm obviously continuing with daily changes for now, wondered if something else is wrong somewhere?
Any suggestions please?
Many thanks