Chris 2020
New Member
Hi all,
I have a newly setup 75L heavily planted tank, that I’ve been cycling for about 4 weeks. It got hit with long greyish, light brown algae strings mainly on the the moss around week 2.5.
Mostly all plants were grown from culture pots and have grown like a rocket in Tropica soil, in addition to medium co2 running one bubble every two seconds & 16W of LED for 8 hours. Most of the plants are easy & medium category.
The algae is very easily removed by combing with a toothbrush, and once out of the water looks much more brownish.
Once removed it strangely reappears again by the next day, just as bad, but never on the glass or hardscape and not like usual dusty diatoms.
I Initially started the cycling off with seachem stability & am still dosing prime every couple of days, owing to 1ppm nitrite. Nitrates aren’t too bad at 25ppm. .
I’ve been dosing 1 squirt of Tropica specialised since week 2 daily & been doing 50% water changes twice weekly after clearing the algae, as it also leave a lot floating in the water column.
Please see the attached picture, where you’ll also notice it strangely looks like cobwebs!
I found another picture of something looking the same on a new tank, mentioning it may be filamentous diatoms?
Thanks
Chris
I have a newly setup 75L heavily planted tank, that I’ve been cycling for about 4 weeks. It got hit with long greyish, light brown algae strings mainly on the the moss around week 2.5.
Mostly all plants were grown from culture pots and have grown like a rocket in Tropica soil, in addition to medium co2 running one bubble every two seconds & 16W of LED for 8 hours. Most of the plants are easy & medium category.
The algae is very easily removed by combing with a toothbrush, and once out of the water looks much more brownish.
Once removed it strangely reappears again by the next day, just as bad, but never on the glass or hardscape and not like usual dusty diatoms.
I Initially started the cycling off with seachem stability & am still dosing prime every couple of days, owing to 1ppm nitrite. Nitrates aren’t too bad at 25ppm. .
I’ve been dosing 1 squirt of Tropica specialised since week 2 daily & been doing 50% water changes twice weekly after clearing the algae, as it also leave a lot floating in the water column.
Please see the attached picture, where you’ll also notice it strangely looks like cobwebs!
I found another picture of something looking the same on a new tank, mentioning it may be filamentous diatoms?
Thanks
Chris