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There is also the issue of selection for antibiotic resistant bacteria, in addition to wipeing out your filter bacteria. Use of antibiotics is unwise as you will always have some surviving bacteria and these will be more resistant, so effectively you risk creating a reservoir of antibiotic...

That's interesting as I have been having trouble with my E. tennelus, as I decreased light to reduce alage and ended up with 8" E. tennelus which was not what I anticipated. I will try cutting through leaves and see if I can make it more compact. Cheers, Will

Lovely looking tank. I was wondering how you're trimming the E.tenellus, are you cutting out old long leaves at the base? Cheers Will

Hi Andy, thanks for the advice. I do have shrimps which don't often seem to venture up onto the moss (18 amanos) and I add the recommended dose of easycarbo (frightened to add more in case I kill the shrimps). I cut back what I can but it seems to get worse and worse, the Co2 goes into the...

I was just wondering whether you have any advice regarding the pros and cons of filtration turnover vs total flow? I have an eheim 2322 rated at 500l/h plus a korlaia nano rated at 900l/h, however I am still having algae problems in a 100l tank with drop checker lime green/yellow, 36w fpr 8...

I spot dosed algae on Java Moss, killed the algae and the moss!

Thanks for the advice. I got the HC both times from Green Machine, the second time it had been in the post a couple of days but seemed to be OK initially. As the tank was new with amazonia I thought that water column ferts weren't so important (6 weeks now, cycled at 4 weeks without fish or...

I've now failed twice to grow HC, both times looks OK for 1-2 weeeks and then just starts to rot. 100L cube 20" x 20" x 20", ADA amazonia, recommneded co2 lime green drop checker with kh4 water, 10x flow, co2 below koralia and blown down across HC, 9 hours 28W 3 hours 56 W, ADA step 1 daily. I...

Thanks, as far as co2 addition is concerned do I just need to guess how much too add (as dropchecker always in yellow) based on lighting, plant growth etc? I have 3 x 28W lights over a 100L cube tank, 50 cm high) and I'm running one for 7 hours and then all f3 or 2-3 hours in the middle. Co2...

One further quiery, I've read on other threads that ADA amazonia strips KH, should I worry about this, will it interfer with filter maturation, or should I just wait until KH increases later whilst maintaining the water changes? Thanks

Thanks for the advice. The co2 goes off at 22.00 and comes back on at 14.00 the next day. I will buy a more accurate pH test kit and perhaps try and raise KH if it is too low. There is no sign of the filter improving no2 - no3 (I lknow it's only 3 weeks) so perhaps the cycling has stalled due to...

I am three weeks into cycling my heavily planted tank, with ADA amazonia substrate. The dropchecker stays bright yellow all the time (dKH 4 water), whether the co2 is on or off. Should I be worried about this, nitrates are high but the colour doesn't change after 50% water changes every other...

Thanks, I'm not using the complete ADA system, I have green brighty step 1 but have not started using it yet (set up 5 days ago), and Tropica Plant Nutrition for later on. Cheers

Would you advise 56w or right down to 24w, and should I start dosing now? Cheers

Thanks, I did wonder about this but the lighting was designed to give me close to 4wpg which alwasy seemed to be the magic number. Cheers

I am new to planted aquaria and I have a 100L cube tank roughly 47cm square with: 72W of lighting, 6 hour photoperiod Eheim 2232 Thermo (500LPH) 24-25 deg C JBL Co2 with JBL reactor 2 bubbles per sec ADA amazonia substrate 50% water changes every other day heavily planted double dosing Easy...