I've been plodding on with these, but they're not going so well, so any advice appreciated
Tank 1
Size-25l cubeish
Time set up-5 weeks
Filter-fluval 1, mature media from LFS added with fish. Sponge baffle to slow flow
Substrate-plain clay cat litter under sand
Plants-twisted vallis, water sprite, amazon sword and 1 unIDed (be great if someone could ID )
Light-11w on for about 6 hours a day
Fish-1 male betta
Dosing-0.5ml TPN+ 0.25ml easycarbo daily
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Problem-brown algae, both loose patches and attached to plant leaves. I can't up the flow due to the betta. I was doing twice weekly water changes up to this week as the fish was new. I'm going to go back to that as the algae wasn't at problem levels when I did them. Does light and dosing sound OK? I started with the easycarbo as the vallis wasn't settling in well. I know it's not supposed to work, but on another forum someone said it worked fine with theirs so I decided to give it a go. Can't say it's made a difference to the vallis either way. Still cutting brown bits off every water change.
Tank 2
Size-21l tall hex
Time set up-5 weeks
Filter-built in trickle, kept cycled by feeding ammonia daily after last fish died
Substrate-plain clay cat litter under sand
Plants-cabomba, amazon sword, moss ball, ludwigia
Light-9w on for about 6 hours a day
Fish-1 male betta
Dosing-0.5ml TPN+ 0.25ml easycarbo daily
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Problem-plants dying. I had a buch of wisteria that just rotted to nothing, then the ludwigia did the same. That is just hanging on in there though, with a bit of new growth. I've killed 2 bunches of elodea. The cabomba is good at the top, but the bottom 1/4 is a write off. Could it be light not reaching the bottom strongly enough?
Tank 3
Size-25l bowl
Filter-built in, fishless cycled
Plants-All plastic plants except a java fern and a moss ball.
Light-Not sure on light wattage, maybe 15w, on for 6 hours
Fish-10 male endlers
Problem-dark green algae on the plastic plants. I did have some cherry shrimp in there briefly and they sorted it out a treat, but then they died along with half the fish and I've been letting it settle down before getting any more. The 'no copper' thing was also a bit of a faff when I was treating the mystery disease that wiped them all out.
So, get some shrimp, or try to solve it another way?
Thanks for any tips
Tank 1
Size-25l cubeish
Time set up-5 weeks
Filter-fluval 1, mature media from LFS added with fish. Sponge baffle to slow flow
Substrate-plain clay cat litter under sand
Plants-twisted vallis, water sprite, amazon sword and 1 unIDed (be great if someone could ID )
Light-11w on for about 6 hours a day
Fish-1 male betta
Dosing-0.5ml TPN+ 0.25ml easycarbo daily
Pic-
Problem-brown algae, both loose patches and attached to plant leaves. I can't up the flow due to the betta. I was doing twice weekly water changes up to this week as the fish was new. I'm going to go back to that as the algae wasn't at problem levels when I did them. Does light and dosing sound OK? I started with the easycarbo as the vallis wasn't settling in well. I know it's not supposed to work, but on another forum someone said it worked fine with theirs so I decided to give it a go. Can't say it's made a difference to the vallis either way. Still cutting brown bits off every water change.
Tank 2
Size-21l tall hex
Time set up-5 weeks
Filter-built in trickle, kept cycled by feeding ammonia daily after last fish died
Substrate-plain clay cat litter under sand
Plants-cabomba, amazon sword, moss ball, ludwigia
Light-9w on for about 6 hours a day
Fish-1 male betta
Dosing-0.5ml TPN+ 0.25ml easycarbo daily
Pic-
Problem-plants dying. I had a buch of wisteria that just rotted to nothing, then the ludwigia did the same. That is just hanging on in there though, with a bit of new growth. I've killed 2 bunches of elodea. The cabomba is good at the top, but the bottom 1/4 is a write off. Could it be light not reaching the bottom strongly enough?
Tank 3
Size-25l bowl
Filter-built in, fishless cycled
Plants-All plastic plants except a java fern and a moss ball.
Light-Not sure on light wattage, maybe 15w, on for 6 hours
Fish-10 male endlers
Problem-dark green algae on the plastic plants. I did have some cherry shrimp in there briefly and they sorted it out a treat, but then they died along with half the fish and I've been letting it settle down before getting any more. The 'no copper' thing was also a bit of a faff when I was treating the mystery disease that wiped them all out.
So, get some shrimp, or try to solve it another way?
Thanks for any tips