Terry
Member
Firstly, can I commend you on a first class website. 😀 Only joined the other day after the Hayling Island Festival and have found a wealth of information. As a novice to fishkeeping and a planted Aquarium, it has been extremely useful.
Grateful to anyone who could offer advice on Water Quality please. My tank is 250 litres and is reasonably well stocked with plants, all growing well. It has CO2 injection. Fish include Cardinals Glowlight and Lemon Tetras, Pearl Danios and Chain Loaches.
I do a 10% water (RO) change weekly. Current readings: PH 7.0; Phosphate 0.25; Nitrite 0; Nitrate >10 ppm; GH 80 ppm and KH 50ppm.
The tank is suffering from BGA and another type of algea which looks like green dust on the glass, although this is not too bad at present.
Are the water readings about right for a planted tank or should I be aiming for something else?
Sorry for the long winded explanation. 🙂
Terry
Grateful to anyone who could offer advice on Water Quality please. My tank is 250 litres and is reasonably well stocked with plants, all growing well. It has CO2 injection. Fish include Cardinals Glowlight and Lemon Tetras, Pearl Danios and Chain Loaches.
I do a 10% water (RO) change weekly. Current readings: PH 7.0; Phosphate 0.25; Nitrite 0; Nitrate >10 ppm; GH 80 ppm and KH 50ppm.
The tank is suffering from BGA and another type of algea which looks like green dust on the glass, although this is not too bad at present.
Are the water readings about right for a planted tank or should I be aiming for something else?
Sorry for the long winded explanation. 🙂
Terry