hartgirl
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My 40b tank is kind of a hot mess right now, and I'm getting frustrated finding the right balance in this tank. 30" beamswork pent LED, diy CO2, just started dosing PPS Pro method this week (dry fert mix). Honestly I hadn't been very religious about dosing before (using flourish comp) so I partially attribute this algae mess to that. Now that I'm regularly dosing and have co2 in check and stable, I think (hope?!) things will get better...there is hair algae everywhere (stringy, black, and coarse...or is that beard algae because it looks kind of like, well, a scraggly beard?) I'll find some pics soon.
I guess my question is there anything I can do to save the plants while I find balance? I try manually removing it, but the Ludwigia that is mostly infected has such fine leaves that I end up breaking them. I'm thinking of doing a hydrogen peroxide dip on the affected plants and installing some young SAEs to help...?
Any advice you all can give me would be great. If you happen to know the par values for the light I am using, that would be amazing...heard its high light but no hard facts to back that up....
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I guess my question is there anything I can do to save the plants while I find balance? I try manually removing it, but the Ludwigia that is mostly infected has such fine leaves that I end up breaking them. I'm thinking of doing a hydrogen peroxide dip on the affected plants and installing some young SAEs to help...?
Any advice you all can give me would be great. If you happen to know the par values for the light I am using, that would be amazing...heard its high light but no hard facts to back that up....
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