I have had this algae growing in my 20gal for about a month now. I scrub it during my weekly 25-35% PWC but it keeps coming back. Is it Staghorn algae?
See My Tanks for the plants (and fish) I have in there.
Lighting: single T8 15W Tube I keep it on 13hrs/day. I have now just reduced it to 10hrs/day to see if this helps.
Water parameters:
Ammonia - slightly above 0ppm (I took out one of my 2 filter cartdriges and put a brand new cartridge in there, so that I could put the old one in my 75gal for seeding - this is probably why the ammonia is above 0)
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 0ppm
kH - 100ppm (6 drops on the API test kit)
gH - 200 - 400ppm (18 drops on the API test kit)
I don't know about the phosphates, is it worth getting a phosphate kit?
I am ordering some live plants online for my 75gal and I could order some Nerite snails at no extra shipping costs. Is this worth doing? I like the Nerite snails and have read that they will eat most algae but I feel this does not really take care of the problem, it just "masks" the symptoms.
Thanks for any help
See My Tanks for the plants (and fish) I have in there.
Lighting: single T8 15W Tube I keep it on 13hrs/day. I have now just reduced it to 10hrs/day to see if this helps.
Water parameters:
Ammonia - slightly above 0ppm (I took out one of my 2 filter cartdriges and put a brand new cartridge in there, so that I could put the old one in my 75gal for seeding - this is probably why the ammonia is above 0)
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 0ppm
kH - 100ppm (6 drops on the API test kit)
gH - 200 - 400ppm (18 drops on the API test kit)
I don't know about the phosphates, is it worth getting a phosphate kit?
I am ordering some live plants online for my 75gal and I could order some Nerite snails at no extra shipping costs. Is this worth doing? I like the Nerite snails and have read that they will eat most algae but I feel this does not really take care of the problem, it just "masks" the symptoms.
Thanks for any help