jcgoobee
Member
Hello all,
Short intro about myself here. I just started my new planted tank a little over 2 months ago and it has been a rewarding experience so far. I have a Cube Garden Mini-L (32 litres) tank, and have just transformed from a heavily planted tank to a Iwagumi styled tank.
Spec:
ADA Advanced CO2 - 1 to 1.5 bubbles per second, turned off at night.
Do!Aqua in and outflow pipes
ADA Drop Checker
Aqua Soil Powder (about 2 inches thick)
Eden 501 canister filter
Water Change - once a week, 1/3
Lighting - 6700K for 8 hours a day
Aeration - Lift Violet pipe at night for approximately 10 hours
Fish: 9 Neon Tetras, 2 SAEs
Fert: Brighty K+/Step1/ECA/Green Gain/Green Bacter/Python Git <-- Applied daily per instruction
My questions are:
1. Blue Algae issues - is on the non planted area and there are times that they would show up even after the day I changed water. As soon as I see this green patches, I clean them up immediately, but they tend to grow back. If I do a three-day black out, it resolves the problem right away but will eventually come back and haunt me. What more can I do to kill this menance? I installed a UV Sterlizer but appeared to be waste of money.
2. PH fluctuation - DC shows blue at night, and green after I get home from work (about 5 hours after the lights get turned on), but when I wake up in the morning, it turns bluish again. Is this fluctuation normal? If not, what can I do to avoid this fluctuation?
3. Aeration - The current doesn't seem to be very strong when I lift up the Violet Pipe at night to perform aeration. Do you think this exercise is good enough to provide enough oxygen to the fish? or I should add an air pump to increase aeration? Will air pump be the best solution when I'm on vacation (usually 3 weeks)?
Thanks for taking the time to answer my silly questions.
- James, fro Sunnyvale, California
Short intro about myself here. I just started my new planted tank a little over 2 months ago and it has been a rewarding experience so far. I have a Cube Garden Mini-L (32 litres) tank, and have just transformed from a heavily planted tank to a Iwagumi styled tank.
Spec:
ADA Advanced CO2 - 1 to 1.5 bubbles per second, turned off at night.
Do!Aqua in and outflow pipes
ADA Drop Checker
Aqua Soil Powder (about 2 inches thick)
Eden 501 canister filter
Water Change - once a week, 1/3
Lighting - 6700K for 8 hours a day
Aeration - Lift Violet pipe at night for approximately 10 hours
Fish: 9 Neon Tetras, 2 SAEs
Fert: Brighty K+/Step1/ECA/Green Gain/Green Bacter/Python Git <-- Applied daily per instruction
My questions are:
1. Blue Algae issues - is on the non planted area and there are times that they would show up even after the day I changed water. As soon as I see this green patches, I clean them up immediately, but they tend to grow back. If I do a three-day black out, it resolves the problem right away but will eventually come back and haunt me. What more can I do to kill this menance? I installed a UV Sterlizer but appeared to be waste of money.
2. PH fluctuation - DC shows blue at night, and green after I get home from work (about 5 hours after the lights get turned on), but when I wake up in the morning, it turns bluish again. Is this fluctuation normal? If not, what can I do to avoid this fluctuation?
3. Aeration - The current doesn't seem to be very strong when I lift up the Violet Pipe at night to perform aeration. Do you think this exercise is good enough to provide enough oxygen to the fish? or I should add an air pump to increase aeration? Will air pump be the best solution when I'm on vacation (usually 3 weeks)?
Thanks for taking the time to answer my silly questions.
- James, fro Sunnyvale, California