Jmedic25
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Hey Everyone,
I have an oubreak of BBA starting on my planted aquarium. Let me give you the low down on my setup then ill ask my questions. I have a 36 gal. bowfront. Stock is 4 gouramis,1 black skirt tetra, 1 zebra danio, 1 small common pleco. Plants are 2 small anubias, a good clump of java moss, a medium sized java fern and floating water lettuce and duckweed. I have a large peice of manzinita DW, some river rocks, and a gravel substrate. Im running an airstone, an aqueon 90 HOB filter thats supercharged with potscrubbers and purigen. The lighting is a 55w VHO 6500k light. I have been guilty of over lighting the tank but now I have a timer set up for 8 hrs a day. I dont overfeed. I dose floursh once a week. I change 50% every two weeks but not because the numbers are bad. My general chemistry is Ammo=0 nitrite=0 nitrates=<5, ph a stable 7.0. No salt, I use prime as my declorinator. Im pretty sure I introduced the BBA on one of the plants from my LFS. So my question is what should I do? Bleach dip? Co2? Florish XL?. I need a battle plan. Thanks for the help all. My anubias is reall getting fuzzy and wilting some. The ferns dont seem to care and nothing can touch the duckweed and water lettuce. I have to scoop it weekly, but it crushes nitrates and excess nutrients so I like it.
Justin
I have an oubreak of BBA starting on my planted aquarium. Let me give you the low down on my setup then ill ask my questions. I have a 36 gal. bowfront. Stock is 4 gouramis,1 black skirt tetra, 1 zebra danio, 1 small common pleco. Plants are 2 small anubias, a good clump of java moss, a medium sized java fern and floating water lettuce and duckweed. I have a large peice of manzinita DW, some river rocks, and a gravel substrate. Im running an airstone, an aqueon 90 HOB filter thats supercharged with potscrubbers and purigen. The lighting is a 55w VHO 6500k light. I have been guilty of over lighting the tank but now I have a timer set up for 8 hrs a day. I dont overfeed. I dose floursh once a week. I change 50% every two weeks but not because the numbers are bad. My general chemistry is Ammo=0 nitrite=0 nitrates=<5, ph a stable 7.0. No salt, I use prime as my declorinator. Im pretty sure I introduced the BBA on one of the plants from my LFS. So my question is what should I do? Bleach dip? Co2? Florish XL?. I need a battle plan. Thanks for the help all. My anubias is reall getting fuzzy and wilting some. The ferns dont seem to care and nothing can touch the duckweed and water lettuce. I have to scoop it weekly, but it crushes nitrates and excess nutrients so I like it.
Justin