I redid my tank 4 days ago, cleaned everything out, replaced substrate etc (redid it due to massive amounts of diatoms, reason for that possibly too much light). I re-used my mature filter, some plants and sand. I.e. the tank didn't need to go through cycling and have not had any ammonia at all showing up.
Now on the 4th day of the new setup I've got fairly heavy surface film. The first 3 days there was none. I used to have this in the old tank as well. It's definitly not algae, just a silvery heavy film that breaks easily if you touch it. Previously I did read up about it on this forum, some people were saying that it was due to plants not being happy. Problem is that everything "should" be fine.
In the past I've tried increasing the surface agitation but it doesn't really help much. It requires a very large amount of surface movement to make any difference.. for example raising the lilypipe half way up above the surface but it makes a lot of noise and requires me to inject a insane amount of CO2.
Tank: 180l
Water Volume: 150l
CO2: Green (going on lime green, using CO2 inline reactor)
Temperature: 26c
Light: 40PAR (3x GroBeam 1000 ND LED's at 40% power)
Filter: Fluval G6 (2460 lph)
PH: 6.00
Substrate: ADA Amazonia (new)
Fertilizers:
15ml Aqua Nourish+ / day (macro)
10ml Aqua Nourish / day (micro)
5 drops of ADA ECA
(Aqua Essentials own range of fertilizers which I believe is based on James all-in-one solution. Dosed according to their instructions.)
Fish
3 x Cory's
4 x Oto's
2 x Blue Rams
8 x Dwarf Chain Loaches
10 x Cherry Shrimps
8 x Neon Green Rasporas
Does anyone know why I might get this surface film? Anything I've got wrong?
Could it be the food use? I feed the fish with Hikari Sinking Wafers, small amount of dry flake food but also frozen cyclops.
Now on the 4th day of the new setup I've got fairly heavy surface film. The first 3 days there was none. I used to have this in the old tank as well. It's definitly not algae, just a silvery heavy film that breaks easily if you touch it. Previously I did read up about it on this forum, some people were saying that it was due to plants not being happy. Problem is that everything "should" be fine.
In the past I've tried increasing the surface agitation but it doesn't really help much. It requires a very large amount of surface movement to make any difference.. for example raising the lilypipe half way up above the surface but it makes a lot of noise and requires me to inject a insane amount of CO2.
Tank: 180l
Water Volume: 150l
CO2: Green (going on lime green, using CO2 inline reactor)
Temperature: 26c
Light: 40PAR (3x GroBeam 1000 ND LED's at 40% power)
Filter: Fluval G6 (2460 lph)
PH: 6.00
Substrate: ADA Amazonia (new)
Fertilizers:
15ml Aqua Nourish+ / day (macro)
10ml Aqua Nourish / day (micro)
5 drops of ADA ECA
(Aqua Essentials own range of fertilizers which I believe is based on James all-in-one solution. Dosed according to their instructions.)
Fish
3 x Cory's
4 x Oto's
2 x Blue Rams
8 x Dwarf Chain Loaches
10 x Cherry Shrimps
8 x Neon Green Rasporas
Does anyone know why I might get this surface film? Anything I've got wrong?
Could it be the food use? I feed the fish with Hikari Sinking Wafers, small amount of dry flake food but also frozen cyclops.