Satsumas
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I have finally (i think) got my tank well under way, the pressurized CO2 is working fine and the plants (nutrient sponges) seem to be doing well there all pearling nicely.
One problem though is algae! this has slowed down my set-up drastically!
I went on holiday and bought an automatic feeder for my shrimp and pleco and it overfed them, i usually break up 1 wafer into 3 small pieces every other day (There is some algae in there so i dont want them developing a love for the wafers and not eating algae)
Anyway this feeder put about 2 wafers in a day, i came back to an algae ridden tank after cleaning it all out before i left.
So i cleaned it all off again as best i could and planted the tank with quite a lot of plants to suck up the nutrients and keep algae at bay. They seem to be doing this fairly well (although i could do with some more) but the substrate algae is growing well!
I wish my BN pleco would be a bit more greedy, aswell as the shrimp because i just cant seem to get rid of it.
When i cleaned the algae up i just stirred up the substrate and syphoned as much algae from the substrate as possible. A lot of it must have been buried but now there's blotches and patches of algae on the substrate which is slowly forming a carpet! Should i remove as much as possible and plant very, very heavily with hygro's wisteria etc or would it just grow back again?
Tank info
25 gallon (3 foot)
96W lighting (5-6 hours a day)
Fluval 205 filter
EI dosing
Fish/inverts
BN Pleco, 2 Amano's
Plants
5-6 Ceratopteris Siliquosa
5-6 Nomaphila stricta fleur
6 Elodea densa
One problem though is algae! this has slowed down my set-up drastically!
I went on holiday and bought an automatic feeder for my shrimp and pleco and it overfed them, i usually break up 1 wafer into 3 small pieces every other day (There is some algae in there so i dont want them developing a love for the wafers and not eating algae)
Anyway this feeder put about 2 wafers in a day, i came back to an algae ridden tank after cleaning it all out before i left.
So i cleaned it all off again as best i could and planted the tank with quite a lot of plants to suck up the nutrients and keep algae at bay. They seem to be doing this fairly well (although i could do with some more) but the substrate algae is growing well!
I wish my BN pleco would be a bit more greedy, aswell as the shrimp because i just cant seem to get rid of it.
When i cleaned the algae up i just stirred up the substrate and syphoned as much algae from the substrate as possible. A lot of it must have been buried but now there's blotches and patches of algae on the substrate which is slowly forming a carpet! Should i remove as much as possible and plant very, very heavily with hygro's wisteria etc or would it just grow back again?
Tank info
25 gallon (3 foot)
96W lighting (5-6 hours a day)
Fluval 205 filter
EI dosing
Fish/inverts
BN Pleco, 2 Amano's
Plants
5-6 Ceratopteris Siliquosa
5-6 Nomaphila stricta fleur
6 Elodea densa