Recent content by mr.trooper

Thanks!

Got this guy at a PetCo a while back. i made a post of it some months ago, and THIS was the situation then: Since then I have separated the Rosette's and re-planted them. I have also down graded from a Penguin 150 to a Stingray elite when the Penguin finally wore out. My substrate is a little...

WOW! very nice work.

Well. the motor in my Penguin burned up, so now im using the only other thing tht i had, wich is an elite stingray power filter. I added an airstone to get some airation and surface agitaton. Minimum hours of growing light and more frequesnt water changes have slowed he BGA down.

Cuz im a noob that is flying byt he seat of my pants, and thats what the store had. :D Ill try the NO3 supliments. Yea, Iv got some Blue-Green Algea going on. I added another snail, and they bolth love the stuff, but there is just a little too much for them to eat. The water quality seems to...

the same with my i am just a more natural way of approaching things was just trying to understand your point of view

Thanks for the advice! This thread realy is a good read. I'll have to give this a try.

that is true but you dont know what that will do to the rest of the life in the tank when you mess with the light schedule as well as the water changes and filtration

it is just that the best way that i have figured out how to get rid of algea is to take away its main food source so that it dies off naturally i got rid of hair algea with weekly water changes of ro it went away in a month and i didnt change my lighting schedule at all

For cheap kicks. Thats the Dive knife i use to scrape Algea and trim my plants. Besides, it acts as an aditional IRON suppliment. :lol:

where did you get your live rock if it wasnt precured it will add more amonia and nitrites to your tank due to things dying on it

the algea doesnt feed off of light so cutting down on your light will not affect it i would try a phosphate sponge or something to take the nutrients it is feeding on out of you tank

Hello everyone! My first tank, a 10 gallon planted has been up and running withough a hitch thanks to the articles on this forum. Residents of the tank are: * 3 silver tip tetras * 1 Emerald Corry * 1 golden apple snail * 3 Otos Live plants are a tropca sword, and an Anub of some kind...

What a bunch of Bull! I would have to set up a dedicated solar pannel / battery array for the watter pump or i wouldn't stand a snowballs chance in Miami of affording the watter bills! :lol: But then again, compared to the cost of adding a facility like that onto your basement and purchasing...

Thanks for the advice on feeding. I was wondering about that. Did another gravel vac to help cut down on some of the ditritus. im wondering if the current in my tank is too strong; when they feed, they dont seem like they have enough time to eat as much of it as they would like before it gets...