exodus
Aquarium Advice Freak
In the past few weeks I've setup a new 55 lightly planted. In the beginning, i had stock lighting and some wysteria, swords and micro swords (i think) from petco. Brought them home and planted, no growth, but no algae.
About a week or so after I got the plants, I upgraded to 2.5wpg of ODNO lighting. Kept the lights running at full capacity for awhile, and eventually started to see growth out of the plants.
But then I started to spot algae growing on the plant leaves, I took out one bulb to cut back to 1.25wpg, as I don't have CO2.
The algae is very brown or black looking, kinda hairy too. The wysteria are unaffected though. I've also got some green algae starting to form on the glass, and the water has been slowly greening up over the past few days.
Any ideas as to what is the cause of this, and any ideas about a solution?
I think I'm going to be treating my rams for ich pretty soon, they seem to be developing it. If the heat helps thwart the algae at all, I guess the ich came at the right time.
TIA!
About a week or so after I got the plants, I upgraded to 2.5wpg of ODNO lighting. Kept the lights running at full capacity for awhile, and eventually started to see growth out of the plants.
But then I started to spot algae growing on the plant leaves, I took out one bulb to cut back to 1.25wpg, as I don't have CO2.
The algae is very brown or black looking, kinda hairy too. The wysteria are unaffected though. I've also got some green algae starting to form on the glass, and the water has been slowly greening up over the past few days.
Any ideas as to what is the cause of this, and any ideas about a solution?
I think I'm going to be treating my rams for ich pretty soon, they seem to be developing it. If the heat helps thwart the algae at all, I guess the ich came at the right time.
TIA!
