Here's my 55.
Here's my trouble... algae of various kinds
These are all the tests I can do now...
Ammonia = 0
Nitrite = 0
PH=7.6, 7.8 (test is a little vague here)
KH = 250ppm
GH = 50ppm
Nitrate = 0-5ppm
Using the #'s above C02 works out to 10.55ppm
I use an XP2, dual 30W fluorescent lights(low light right?)
Recently added Hagan CO2
By looking at the plants(not the dirty glass) I have what I think looks like bba on the larger leaf edges. No the grassy plant and hygro, and other smaller crypt leaves, I have a brown scummy looking stuff.
Well, I can't get rid of the algae, I can't grow a healthy looking plant, the crypts grow all over, but look scary.
Last week my Nitrate test was 30ppm, did a 1/4 water change added ferts, now it's reading much lower, hummm? At that time I added flourish tabs, and dosed "leaf zone" according to directions. which contains 3% potash, and .1% iron. Maybe the plants are beginning to grow - and suck up the nitrates?
I don't want to confuse anybody, I take all suggestions very seriously - because I'm not having much luck.
What do you think too much of this, or too little of that????
Here's my trouble... algae of various kinds
These are all the tests I can do now...
Ammonia = 0
Nitrite = 0
PH=7.6, 7.8 (test is a little vague here)
KH = 250ppm
GH = 50ppm
Nitrate = 0-5ppm
Using the #'s above C02 works out to 10.55ppm
I use an XP2, dual 30W fluorescent lights(low light right?)
Recently added Hagan CO2
By looking at the plants(not the dirty glass) I have what I think looks like bba on the larger leaf edges. No the grassy plant and hygro, and other smaller crypt leaves, I have a brown scummy looking stuff.
Well, I can't get rid of the algae, I can't grow a healthy looking plant, the crypts grow all over, but look scary.
Last week my Nitrate test was 30ppm, did a 1/4 water change added ferts, now it's reading much lower, hummm? At that time I added flourish tabs, and dosed "leaf zone" according to directions. which contains 3% potash, and .1% iron. Maybe the plants are beginning to grow - and suck up the nitrates?
I don't want to confuse anybody, I take all suggestions very seriously - because I'm not having much luck.
What do you think too much of this, or too little of that????