Fish Heads
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- Nov 8, 2006
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I have been doing a workover of my child's preschool tank. I made the change over Thanksgiving holiday. 4 weeks ago.
It is having black growth (easy to clean off- silicon microbes?) along with green algae on my nana and java ferns . No BBA or hair algae at this point. Water is crystal clear. I keep the front and sides cleaned off. Getting some fuzzy algae on back glass but not excessive.
Can I expect the growth to clear up? I must use the chemicals that I have for a while until I get more donations to purchase other fertilizers. (Might make a CO2 reactor using yeast with the kids but nothing else) How are the phosphate and nitrate levels?
29 gallon
kept penqium bio-wheel hang on filter
replaced tank
replaced light: now have T-5's 6500K 18 watt + colormax 18 watt bulbs
replaced substrate with eco-complete
planted with wisteria, java ferns, cryps: beckettii, wendii, anubias nana, hygrophila polysperma sunset, and echinodorus tenellusm, water sprite
heavy bio-load with 4 rosy tetras, 2 cherry barbs, 1 rainbow shark, 5 amano shrimp, 3 panda cories, 2 ottos, a few MTS and pond snails but not many.
Dosing Excel every other day in hope to clear up algae along with Leaf Zone 2x per week. I also have Flourish and Flourish trace.
pH 7.6
KH 8
GH 5
Phospate 1.5 ?? Seacham kit
Nitrate at 50 ppm
Pygmy chain sword is not growing well (needs CO2?), anubias nana is covered with algae has put out a new leaf, the polysperma is not growing rapidly, wisteria is growing well, water sprite both floating and planted has very little growth. Crypts are doing well!!
What can you all tell me?
It is having black growth (easy to clean off- silicon microbes?) along with green algae on my nana and java ferns . No BBA or hair algae at this point. Water is crystal clear. I keep the front and sides cleaned off. Getting some fuzzy algae on back glass but not excessive.
Can I expect the growth to clear up? I must use the chemicals that I have for a while until I get more donations to purchase other fertilizers. (Might make a CO2 reactor using yeast with the kids but nothing else) How are the phosphate and nitrate levels?
29 gallon
kept penqium bio-wheel hang on filter
replaced tank
replaced light: now have T-5's 6500K 18 watt + colormax 18 watt bulbs
replaced substrate with eco-complete
planted with wisteria, java ferns, cryps: beckettii, wendii, anubias nana, hygrophila polysperma sunset, and echinodorus tenellusm, water sprite
heavy bio-load with 4 rosy tetras, 2 cherry barbs, 1 rainbow shark, 5 amano shrimp, 3 panda cories, 2 ottos, a few MTS and pond snails but not many.
Dosing Excel every other day in hope to clear up algae along with Leaf Zone 2x per week. I also have Flourish and Flourish trace.
pH 7.6
KH 8
GH 5
Phospate 1.5 ?? Seacham kit
Nitrate at 50 ppm
Pygmy chain sword is not growing well (needs CO2?), anubias nana is covered with algae has put out a new leaf, the polysperma is not growing rapidly, wisteria is growing well, water sprite both floating and planted has very little growth. Crypts are doing well!!
What can you all tell me?