gcodrutv
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Hi,
I'm new registered on this forum, but I'm following for a long time.
I recently upgraded my planted tank to a bigger one and I have a nightmare fighting with green hair algae, GSA, BBA and staghorn algae. Can't get rid of.
The current setup is custom made long tank, 156cm long, 36cm wide and 60cm height. JBL volcano mineral (18l), topped with 30kg of black sand. Hardscape about 40kg of Dragon stone and 3 redmoor wood medium/large pieces.
Filtration is done by one JBL 1902 (744l/h real flow) with 2 long spay bar, each side (DIY) and one Oase Biomaster Thermo 600 (509l/h real flow), setup as surface skimmer and return via 2 nozzles with T pointing to the front glass and UV light.
Between the 2 filters I have 1kg of ceramic rings, 4L of Seachem Matrix and 4L of JBL Micromec.
I'm injecting CO2 via pressurised bottle with 2-way splitter and 2 JBL inline diffusers. On the JBL 1902 i have 4-5 bubbles/second and on the Oase 2-3 bubbles/second.
Fertilizers, EI daily method with about 70l water change every 3-4 days.
Lights 2 Mitras Slim line 150cm Sky White (67W each), running from 7am (5%) till 11pm (5%) with 100% only form 1pm till 4pm, rest of the day, slowly increase and decrease (on dimmer).
The water is from mains run via 2 chloramine carbon blocks (1 micron) and one additional carbon block (0.5micron). TDS on water supply 77-80 IN and 65-70 going to tank.
Tank temperature is 23-24 Celsius.
pH - 7.1 - 7.2 before CO2 (starts at 5am)
pH - 6.4 after CO2 (stops at 10pm)
Water conductivity about 550uS (after water change), 610uS (time to do water change)
Plants - heavy planted (I'll make a list)
Stock - 9 yellow long fin danios, 30 cardinal tetra (small), one black moly (Black Beauty), 10 otto, 2 red phantom tetra, 30-40 assassin snails and 40-60 Red Chery Shrimps (too many to count).
Is the tank overstocked, underfiltred, too much light, not enough flow?
Any help would be much appreciated
I'm new registered on this forum, but I'm following for a long time.
I recently upgraded my planted tank to a bigger one and I have a nightmare fighting with green hair algae, GSA, BBA and staghorn algae. Can't get rid of.
The current setup is custom made long tank, 156cm long, 36cm wide and 60cm height. JBL volcano mineral (18l), topped with 30kg of black sand. Hardscape about 40kg of Dragon stone and 3 redmoor wood medium/large pieces.
Filtration is done by one JBL 1902 (744l/h real flow) with 2 long spay bar, each side (DIY) and one Oase Biomaster Thermo 600 (509l/h real flow), setup as surface skimmer and return via 2 nozzles with T pointing to the front glass and UV light.
Between the 2 filters I have 1kg of ceramic rings, 4L of Seachem Matrix and 4L of JBL Micromec.
I'm injecting CO2 via pressurised bottle with 2-way splitter and 2 JBL inline diffusers. On the JBL 1902 i have 4-5 bubbles/second and on the Oase 2-3 bubbles/second.
Fertilizers, EI daily method with about 70l water change every 3-4 days.
Lights 2 Mitras Slim line 150cm Sky White (67W each), running from 7am (5%) till 11pm (5%) with 100% only form 1pm till 4pm, rest of the day, slowly increase and decrease (on dimmer).
The water is from mains run via 2 chloramine carbon blocks (1 micron) and one additional carbon block (0.5micron). TDS on water supply 77-80 IN and 65-70 going to tank.
Tank temperature is 23-24 Celsius.
pH - 7.1 - 7.2 before CO2 (starts at 5am)
pH - 6.4 after CO2 (stops at 10pm)
Water conductivity about 550uS (after water change), 610uS (time to do water change)
Plants - heavy planted (I'll make a list)
Stock - 9 yellow long fin danios, 30 cardinal tetra (small), one black moly (Black Beauty), 10 otto, 2 red phantom tetra, 30-40 assassin snails and 40-60 Red Chery Shrimps (too many to count).
Is the tank overstocked, underfiltred, too much light, not enough flow?
Any help would be much appreciated