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Hmm, the whole point of using and estimative index as it's name suggest it's an estimation. It should require a test kit to check out how much your tank phosphate or nitrate level is. Instead, you gauge the water parameter by observing the plants well being. You have a 76 US gallon tank with...

May i ask why are you putting in phosphate remover when you are adding phosphate into the tank via dosing? It doesn't seemed to make much sense. I would agree with the above about getting more flow into the tank or repositioning the output of the filter. You didn't mention about what lighting...

I'm assuming that you are using DIY CO2 for planted tank, so with 0 nitrate, your plant is starving and not growing well and hence giving algae to flourish. Either up your fish load if you are doing low tech or add fert into your tank. James planted tank website has gives you a wonder algae...

Just one question thought Fred. How on earth did you work out that 32% water change in the first place? Did you measure the water coming out of the tank or something? By the way, like the new picture of you in the profile. Looks like 2 different person compare to the one where you had longer...

Seems like the CO2 is the key here since you mentioned that your plant is growing mad with the addition of excel. what filter have you got? Probably as clive mentioned, it's the lack of filtration that causing the CO2 fluactuation in the tank. Furthermore 3wpg is kinda high light. Maybe the CO2...

Never seen a ceramic bioball before. Any chance of a picture? It's just bacteria bloom since you change half the bioball to new ones which means the filter capacity has been reduced by half in that initial period. Once the bacteria start colonising the bioball again the cloudy water should go...

I dose it and noticed some improvement. No massive pearling effect but some growth that is visible within a few days. but having said that I dose it with 4x the recommended strength on a daily basis lol. Now that my CO2 injection kit is here I can go back to the recommended dosage

If it's a heavily planted tank, I got a feeling that the macro might be on the low side. Without CO2 injection in this lighting is not making situation any better as well... I might be wrong though. The plant won't have a fighting chance against the algae if there is other limiting factor around.

Agree with clive. Funny though if you have aquasoil from the very beginning, uit should have leech ammonia from the very start and the algae shoulld have been a problem from the 1st month itself... Can't really understand why the problem start manifesting itself after 2 months. By theory your...

what plant have you got in the tank? What kinda of substrate do you use if there is any rooted plant in the aquarium?

definitely agree. More otos and more algae cleaner if the excel route didn't work! And maybe some fast growing stem plant. Don't know id the latter will help. Theoretically cladophora moss ball might help as they belong to the algae family and should secret some allelochemicals to stop algae...

get some SAE? They will clean up the algae but beware though if there is moss in there they might take that down as well. What type of algae is it?