I think they are good to go now. I have a baby bn pleco with 4 pearls and 1 blue gourami in my 75 heavily planted
I wanted to ask what type of algae do you have and how long do you run your lights? Co2? Excel¿ any dry ferts or any fert? If so how much? What plants do you got? How much of the tank is planted? Pics?
I would like to try and help with your algae problems as I have recently come.a long way withy 75g and feel I can offer some help in this area.
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Thank you. I would love some advice.
It appears there are different types of algae, the worst being the dark brownish green algae on the plants and glass. I can scrape it off the glass but it is difficult to rub off of plant leaves. It's darker than diatoms. I will post a pic of the tank and some close-ups of the algae.
It is a 60 gallon with 2x54 watt T5HO on a timer for 8 hours a day. I have been dosing 1 capful of Excel every morning, although after reading another thread about dosing glut today I think I am going to increase that. I just ordered Metricide. I'm not interested in a CO2 system at this point in time. I also dose a capful of Flourish once a week for micronutrients and add 4 or 5 root tabs every couple months.
I have several Amazon Swords, several red crypt wendtii (sorry if I butcher names), an Anubias, some water sprite, floating hornwort, two bacopa bunches, a moss ball, some very sad looking java fern, and some random java moss here and there. I recently added a second filter (now have 2 AC70 HOBs + a small circulation pump at the bottom) so my floating hornwort keeps getting pushed down. Need to figure something out there. I like it floating because it keeps my Gourami happy and my platies like to sleep in it. Might try to rig up some sort of suction cup anchor
After my pleco died, the plants started not doing so well. I tested and my nitrates were only 5ppm and my phosphates were nil. I ordered some dry Ferts and have been trying to get about 20ppm nitrates and 2-ish ppm phosphates. I've read so many different theories about the preferred ratio of those two macronutrients that I'm not sure what's best for my tank. Trying to figure that out.
Also, I change 33% water weekly.