Hi guys,
Hopefully you won't mind me having a moan and you may be able to help me. I have become really disheartened with the planted tank game for a second time. A while back I had a dennerle system which was great for a while but ended up with probably every algae imagineable and gave up. After chancing on this site which is marvellous andI think you guys are great I thought I would have another go and decided to follow ed seeleys tutorial on Ei index. My tank is 69 gallon eco complete substrate fe co2 with rhinox diffuser with a koralia 1 and filtration is 2 eheim 2329 wet and dry filters which I know goes against the grain but understood I'd just have to up co2 to compensate temp is 28c I have some hair algae issues mainly on my juwel rock backgroung and redmoor wood plants are not affected by it, and mulm in the tank is a real problem the stem plants are constantly covered the only way to rid it is to uproot them and clean them in a bucket I use an Eheim sludge extractor but just can,t seem to keep on top of it the tank just looks crap. What I would like to know is as this is a higher temp tank for discus do I need to up the ferts excel etc and maybe upgrade the koralia. I am supposed to be getting my discus on the 25th of this month but am thinking of putting it off and giving up again and suffer the wrath of my wife for all the money I've spent . Any help would be extremely gratefully recieved and save me getting horse whipped from my wife
Whinge over
Cheers
Mark.
Hopefully you won't mind me having a moan and you may be able to help me. I have become really disheartened with the planted tank game for a second time. A while back I had a dennerle system which was great for a while but ended up with probably every algae imagineable and gave up. After chancing on this site which is marvellous andI think you guys are great I thought I would have another go and decided to follow ed seeleys tutorial on Ei index. My tank is 69 gallon eco complete substrate fe co2 with rhinox diffuser with a koralia 1 and filtration is 2 eheim 2329 wet and dry filters which I know goes against the grain but understood I'd just have to up co2 to compensate temp is 28c I have some hair algae issues mainly on my juwel rock backgroung and redmoor wood plants are not affected by it, and mulm in the tank is a real problem the stem plants are constantly covered the only way to rid it is to uproot them and clean them in a bucket I use an Eheim sludge extractor but just can,t seem to keep on top of it the tank just looks crap. What I would like to know is as this is a higher temp tank for discus do I need to up the ferts excel etc and maybe upgrade the koralia. I am supposed to be getting my discus on the 25th of this month but am thinking of putting it off and giving up again and suffer the wrath of my wife for all the money I've spent . Any help would be extremely gratefully recieved and save me getting horse whipped from my wife
Whinge over
Cheers
Mark.