I had a similar issue
@CooKieS with my Buce some time ago, when I was also regularly dosing Excel. I stopped dosing the Excel and eventually the Buce improved. (
Holey Buce Batman! . . .)
Thanks Wookii, that’s interesting, the holes in my buce looks just like yours but not as many yet… (on 5/6 leaves I have just one affected usually, and it has usually one hole only).
I’ve been using carbo on many tanks before, sometimes at triple dose (I’m using masterline, it’s more diluted than excel) without any issues. I usually only use it to get rid of some staghorn but I learned over the years that spot dosing works best for this (with h2o2 even better than glutaraldehyde sometimes).
Anyway, now that I’m not using it anymore, I will see how it goes! In the meantime I decided to dose an bit more ferts too, just to be sure it’s not an macro deficiency.
The snails are definitely out of cause for me, regarding the fact I have ramshorn snails in all my tanks since years and they never caused damage to buce before.
Hi.
Im really impressed with this tank on every level. I have spent too long studying it!
Hope you don't mind but i would like to ask a question.
How are you diffusing the CO2 into the tank?
I have just started to use CO2 and really struggling to get it all around the water column. Only possible if i turn the filter up to full power which is crazy.
So how do you do it with such a packed out tank and as you say using less flow with the ADA Filter?
Thank you so much for sharing this!
Simon
Well thanks a lot Simon, glad it can inspire others.
I know that you can read all over the internet that co2 has to be blasted everywhere in the tank to get good distribution but by doing this I usually have more issues than benefits (especially with red algae like BBA who loves to grow on hardscape or slow growing plants that are blasted with flow and co2).
So for the last two years , I’m putting my co2 diffuser in a low flow area, sometimes even near the inlet so the filter works like an reactor for example.
In this case the co2 diffuser (from planted box, looks similar to the tropica all in one diffuser , I use Aquario neo too usually for smaller tanks like this one) is located in the back right of the tank, under the rotala bush.
Still, it works and take no effort to get an light green drop checker, but don’t forget that I do 24/7 co2 at lower bps (around 1 bubble every 4 seconds on this one).
I usually take the example of Ada gallery tanks; the flow Is usually low to medium on these tanks, and no algae can be seen, that’s how their filter works ; huge media capacity but gentle flow.
Flow + co2 means problems to me.
Cheers
Thierry
