6 Month Progress of my 110 gallon

[FishEggs]

sorry no experience with canisters yet but you could rig a power head to do that. hide it behind a rock or driftwood.

[30searay]

Well, I have the new tank set up and I fully expected an algae outbreak in the first few months. But nothing like this....I have so many types of algae I don't even know where to start. But, i expect this will be a good learning exercise for me. I do know that my phosphates are off the charts so that is the first problem, but the black beard algae is out of this world.





Plenty of other messy photos I could post but I will spare everyone.

Anyway, we will get the water changed today and try and reset. At least the tank is up and running. By the way, I do not like the Eheim canister filter product, not sure if anyone else has used them. Its quiet but will not start up easily as it should and does not run at full power. This is my second pump from Foster and Smith.

Don

[black hills tj]

I have never seen a FW tank INFESTED with algae quite that bad. Best of luck to you, you will need it.

[newfound77951]

I have never seen a FW tank INFESTED with algae quite that bad.

Don't worry, I have, my 55g looked similar when I first started it up, with 4 wpg and no ferts. A small army of BN plecos, otos and SAEs along with getting the hang of ferts and CO2 and I got things under control within a month or so.

[brutus]

the eheim 3 have a day and night cycle speed dont they? maybe its mixed up

[30searay]

Well, for those of you who don't think that you can't defeat the dreaded algae outbreak with 4.5 wpg - I provide you the following pic's. Note that these pictures are within 3 weeks of my previous posting! I think I had 8 or 9 types of algae as of 11/18 - never thought I would overcome the infestation without either a blackout or some other extreme measure. Just some serious TLC - watching the tank metrics very closely - and getting the water change schedule and fert schedule under control, got me on track. Note the Eheim system in pic #1 - DON'T GET ONE - biggest mistake of my life. I have gone through two systems in 4 months, neither of which worked well at all. I am going with a Fluval system now,,,,obviously the tank is nowhere near where I want it to be - but now that the serious algae outbreak is under control I can proceed with getting the plant landscaping back on track.