Martymartynski
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I have been battling gsa for a year and I cannot get rid of it. The only thing that helped is to switch off my lights or keep them really low like 30% (chihiros wrgb slim). When I did this though my eleocharis really suffered and plants are not growing well anymore. I bought countless of tests and the API one was showing me 20ppm phosphates in my taper water. I tried to reduce phosphates with phosphate remover and by using RO. I literally restarted the water in the tank and started dosing PO4 again and the gsa started spreading. I received another test today and shows 3ppm of phosphates in my tank, and zero in my tap water. My tap water has almost zero nitrates so I dose EI. Tank has around 20ppm of nitrates but stays like this, doesn’t seem that plants are using it. My light is raised and only 50% intensity on all spectrums. CO2 is constantly yellow, I have been increasing it every day, probably 5bps for 23g tank. Lights on from 1pm till 9pm with one hour sunrise and 1h sunset. I run co2 from 8am till 7pm to get it really high when the lights come on. I’m pretty sure it’s 1 ph difference but I don’t have very accurate strips. I have minimal bba.
I am at loss, I don’t know what to do anymore. It seems like the gsa doesn’t spread when I don’t dose phosphates and does when I do. I dosed phosphates yesterday and today I saw hair algae too. I also use Equilibrium as a GH booster. I clean the tank really well, after last clean up, all parameters were almost zero. I hoover the substrate to remove detritus and gunk. I know that it’s been proven the gsa goes away with increased phosphates but not in my case.
Tank: 23 gallon rimless tank
Light: Chihiros wrgb slim raised high and at 50%
Filter: oase biomaster thermo 350, pimped to increase the flow
Media: one 30ppi sponge, rest seachem matrix
Fish: 4 cherry barbs, 4 rummy nose and one betta and also community of cherry shrimp and 3 amanos
Parameters:
N02 - 0
No3 -20ppm
Phosphates- 3ppm
Ammonia- 0
PH - 6 or 7
The gsa is mainly on the wood and attacks slow growing plants attached to it (java fern).
Has anyone got any idea on what else to do because I am out of options. I dosed phosphates with syringe as per Tom Barrs suggestion on another post, directly onto the algae and I got more.
Please can you also help me adjust the EI.
Thank you. Martyna
I am at loss, I don’t know what to do anymore. It seems like the gsa doesn’t spread when I don’t dose phosphates and does when I do. I dosed phosphates yesterday and today I saw hair algae too. I also use Equilibrium as a GH booster. I clean the tank really well, after last clean up, all parameters were almost zero. I hoover the substrate to remove detritus and gunk. I know that it’s been proven the gsa goes away with increased phosphates but not in my case.
Tank: 23 gallon rimless tank
Light: Chihiros wrgb slim raised high and at 50%
Filter: oase biomaster thermo 350, pimped to increase the flow
Media: one 30ppi sponge, rest seachem matrix
Fish: 4 cherry barbs, 4 rummy nose and one betta and also community of cherry shrimp and 3 amanos
Parameters:
N02 - 0
No3 -20ppm
Phosphates- 3ppm
Ammonia- 0
PH - 6 or 7
The gsa is mainly on the wood and attacks slow growing plants attached to it (java fern).
Has anyone got any idea on what else to do because I am out of options. I dosed phosphates with syringe as per Tom Barrs suggestion on another post, directly onto the algae and I got more.
Please can you also help me adjust the EI.
Thank you. Martyna