Patrick Crowley
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I have new high tech planted tank, not surprisingly diatoms appeared after 3 or 4 weeks.
Tank is a 30cm cube, with a 6 hour photo period, pressurised CO2.
I seem to have 2 types, the usual brown ‘dust’ on rocks and other hard surfaces. I added ottos and amano shrimp that cleared that up almost over night. But I’m left with a brown fluffy algae at the substrate level, choking my HC cuba carpet and dwarf hair grass.
The clean up crew don’t touch this, so I’m physically trying to remove it. But this means I’m just pulling up the HC Cuba that is trying to get established. I’m cleaning the canister filter weekly and doing 30%-40% water changes twice weekly. I’m now at about 8 or 9 weeks and no improvement is seen.
Thanks for any help!
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Tank is a 30cm cube, with a 6 hour photo period, pressurised CO2.
I seem to have 2 types, the usual brown ‘dust’ on rocks and other hard surfaces. I added ottos and amano shrimp that cleared that up almost over night. But I’m left with a brown fluffy algae at the substrate level, choking my HC cuba carpet and dwarf hair grass.
The clean up crew don’t touch this, so I’m physically trying to remove it. But this means I’m just pulling up the HC Cuba that is trying to get established. I’m cleaning the canister filter weekly and doing 30%-40% water changes twice weekly. I’m now at about 8 or 9 weeks and no improvement is seen.
Thanks for any help!
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