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Ok on plants but forgive my ignorance but wouldn't higher nitrates help this blue green algae also?

Ok thanks for the advice, I will do some research as this side of fish keeping is completely new to me, I was always told zero ammonia,nitrates, nitrites was a good thing but its obviously far more complex than that. I have here an aqua one 1200 external filter that I have been holding off...

Lights are T5 it's a juwel 180 litre tank with the installed juwel filter and a extra fluval 2+ filter. I have tried to introduce different live bearers but they always die.

Two one metre fluorescent lamps from aqua one, one a pinkish colour and one more of a white colour, both less than 3 months old. I have about 15 plants in my tank in total, one angel fish, two rams and four clown loaches.

Hi again I'm not sure exactly what plants I have but I do know I have some amazon swords, some densa, duck weed on the surface along with some other floating plants but these are all recent additions, I havent been using any fertiliser at all.

Ok thanks for the advice. I will research how to increase the nitrates, I have been plagued by this for over a year, my tank is not so bad at the moment but I have been doing some cleaning everyday to keep it in check, to be honest I'm on the point of giving up with it. The antibiotic you...

Hi Thanks for the reply, I have just tested again with my api master kit and my tetra 7 in 1 kit and both are showing nitrates at 0 ppm. Cheers John

Hi I have had my topical freshwater fish tank set up for around 4 years with almost no problems until about a year ago. In the last year I have been struggling against some kind of black algae, it covers every surface of the tank including plants, gravel, glass, rocks etc, as soon as I scrape...

Hi all, New to this site, new to any fish keeping site actually, hoping to learn a lot and in particular hoping I find advice to sort my fish tank problems out. Regards John