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Thankyou for that. I did a small one this evening to get rid of the crud that had settled and I replanted everything. I'll leave the vallis out until I get it all sorted then!!! I'll keep dosing excel until I can get another FE (no card at the moment, damn fraudsters!). It is already looking...

Okay, so I got a little carried away with cleaning the tank last night. I hacked back all the stem plants, ripped out all the carpeting plants so that I could clean each individual plant and I took out any rocks that didn't have plants attached to them. I also decided to do a little re scape...

Oh that makes it much more bearable. So if I do twice weekly changes and dose with excel, do I still need to keep the lights off for this whole period and what about the CO2? Also I'm guessing I keep going with the original fert programme? How many weeks to you reckon it'll take for the algae...

oh and I'm thinking of swapping from dry ferts to TPN+ - how do I work out the daily dosing for this?

okay, I'll keep on going with it. ARGH! I hate doing daily water changes when I have to take 120l out!

Okay, I'm thinking that with me going away on the weekends a lot and having the odd holiday, that it might make my battle easier if I convert this tank into a low tech one! What do you think? Plants I currently have are: Pogostemon, Java fern, java moss, anubias nana, a hygro of some sort and...

Oh goooooooooooooooooooood, this is a never ending battle! When I replaced the CO2 bottle the other week, I obviously didn't do it well enough because the bottle is now empty. The problem being that I was away last week (came back today) so the algae has gone mad, much, much worse than it was...

yeah I'm getting very impatient with it. I think I might rip it all out and stick in a dark corner for a few weeks and see what happens, at least it won't be infecting my tank anymore and I can clear that up! Thankyou for that. I'll try it and see how it work cause it breaks my heart to have...

Hi there, So I followed the blackout procedure and while it has reduced about 50% of the algae, there is still some amongst the mosses. I'm not sure what to do now? I'm tempted to rip out the mosses that have the algae in and start again, it would certainly be less hassle!!!! What do you guys...

Thankyou for that, answers to questions as below - Can you confirm that you're using 4dkh distilled water in the dropchecker and that you are not using tank water or tap water in the checker? Yes Can you lower the lighting by 25%-50%? This will help tremendously for now. Yes, I'll do that...

Hi I am still struggling with the hair algae. I am dosing 4caps of excel which is 20ml and i'm doing it everyday as well as the fert dosing and the CO2. The algae isn't getting worse, but it isn't getting better. I take out as much as I can every water change I do and there isn't any growth...

thankyou for that. I think it'll be best to treat the whole tank with the excel, just to be sure, as I have a fair amount of moss in there. As for the yellowing and pinholes, it may well have been down to the low CO2. I'm going to do a trim of the all the bad looking leaves tonight and then...

oh that is great. I had to turn down my CO2 for a few weeks because my tester in the tank had a leak, so I could never tell how much was in there. that would be why. I have it back now to the lime green colour so that will be good and I'll treat the hair algae with excel as I have some of...

So it is completely my fault that I now have hair algae. I know it is due to a build up of excess nutrients and it happened whilst I was away on holiday and then when i came back, my pump to get water back into the tank broke, so i couldn't do the usual 50% water changes. So this is my fert...

Thankyou for the link, they are even more affordable with that now. Also thankyou for the black out idea and the filter maintenance. I cleaned mine out a couple of weeks ago and the flow is still good for them, so that can't be it, but I will keep on top of them and the cleaning of the algae...

Yeah I can afford it, I might have to starve for a bit :D but anything for my fish and plants. I want everything to be as happy as possible. Right will get onto getting some then and the Tetratecs are amazing value and brilliant quality, I do love them, although have never had an ehiem so...

Well I also have the juwel internal filter which turns over 1000lph so that gives me a total of 1600lph at the moment (800lph short). Also it didn't come with a spray bar, so do you think that I'd be better to still add a Tetratec EX1200 as well? I was considering getting 2 EX1200 and take the...

oh that is a good idea, I forgot about the spray bar, I will put that on. Also thankyou for the dosing regime, I will give that a try. I think that it is forming in the areas where there is less flow and therefore a possiblity that less nutrients are getting to it, if I add a spray bar to the...

Fertiliser Dosing Monday – 3/4 - KNO3, 2/8 - KH2PO4, 1 – Epsom salts Tuesday - 1/4Tsp - Trace Wednesday – 3/4 - KNO3, 2/8 - KH2PO4, 1 – Epsom salts Thursday - 1/4Tsp - Trace Friday – 3/4 - KNO3, 1/8 - KH2PO4 Saturday – DAY OFF Sunday – WATER CHANGE So if I do this as my dosing...

thankyou so much for you help

My tank has been up and running for about a month now and all is going well, except I am starting to get blue green algae. Below is my dosing schedule - 1/2Tsp-KN03 3x a week 1/8Tsp-KH2P04 3x a week 1/8Tsp-Trace 3x a week 2Tsp Epsom Salts 1x a week Do you think that I need to up my nitrate...

thankyou for that. i am using 4dkh water in the co2 test and am doing a little under 50% water changes, so I'll up that. Think I might add some otos in tomorrow to help with it.

Hi there, I have had my tank set up for about 3 weeks now, and brown algae has now started growing, although there is a fuzzy brown (hair algae?) on my cambomba. I have pressurised CO2 (not sure on the bpm, but the permanent CO2 test is green). I have about 2.5wpg and I'm using eco complete as...