KirstyF
Member
So…..I enjoyed my two week holidays….but the tank, not so much. 🙄
Forgot to swap the Co2 bottle out before I left so it ran out at some point. Not sure when. The ‘tank-sitter’ mentioned I’d got some algae a couple of days before I got back and then realised the Co2 was empty. My fault not theirs tbf!
Came back to lots of algae on the glass. Almost all of the back glass coated, 2 or 3 inches high along the whole of the front and a central patch on the front from top to bottom.
Some hair algae on a few plants,
Brown algae on a number of Anubias, which doesn’t rub off.
And some very unhappy looking AR with lots of GSA.
I’ve had a good clean up and a 60-70% water change and I’m guessing that a bit of maintenance and re-stabilising Co2 will probably deal with most of the underlying cause but I’m wondering:
What is the brown algae coating the Anubias and is there anything I should/can do to help these recover?
Are the AR are a lost cause?
Always found the AR to be a bit of a pain, with low level GSA on lower leaves no matter what I do, but if I remove all the GSA affected leaves from these now I’m going to pretty much have bare stems with a few leaves on top. Should I just replace with fresh plants?
Any advice welcome. 😊
Just as a side note. I think I’ve probably cleaned a couple of small patches of gsa off the glass maybe twice in total since the tank was set up last November. Outside of that the glass has been entirely algae free. I’ve also had some GSA issues with slow growers and AR particularly, but relatively minor. Shocking just how quickly algae can take advantage eh!!
Forgot to swap the Co2 bottle out before I left so it ran out at some point. Not sure when. The ‘tank-sitter’ mentioned I’d got some algae a couple of days before I got back and then realised the Co2 was empty. My fault not theirs tbf!
Came back to lots of algae on the glass. Almost all of the back glass coated, 2 or 3 inches high along the whole of the front and a central patch on the front from top to bottom.
Some hair algae on a few plants,
Brown algae on a number of Anubias, which doesn’t rub off.
And some very unhappy looking AR with lots of GSA.
I’ve had a good clean up and a 60-70% water change and I’m guessing that a bit of maintenance and re-stabilising Co2 will probably deal with most of the underlying cause but I’m wondering:
What is the brown algae coating the Anubias and is there anything I should/can do to help these recover?
Are the AR are a lost cause?
Always found the AR to be a bit of a pain, with low level GSA on lower leaves no matter what I do, but if I remove all the GSA affected leaves from these now I’m going to pretty much have bare stems with a few leaves on top. Should I just replace with fresh plants?
Any advice welcome. 😊
Just as a side note. I think I’ve probably cleaned a couple of small patches of gsa off the glass maybe twice in total since the tank was set up last November. Outside of that the glass has been entirely algae free. I’ve also had some GSA issues with slow growers and AR particularly, but relatively minor. Shocking just how quickly algae can take advantage eh!!