tetragirl83
Aquarium Advice Newbie
I have a 55 gallon tank with a canister filter with a Sera 500 reactor and a 10 lb co2 tank with a solenoid bubble counter. I also have an air stone inside the tank with black sand substrate, some rocks, a piece of drift wood with a few plants. Not sure on the sames of all, but my concern I am having is that I am getting a bloom of brown algae, I have been on top of changing the water, monitoring the co2 level and the amount of sunlight coming through the window, but within a couple of days the algae is back. I find it all over my plants, my piece of drift wood and on the glass. Is there something I am doing wrong???
I can give you a lead up to how it started...... My tank was doing well with having a planted tank with fish. I had about 10 fish total ranging in 4 different tetras, an albino cat and a plecco. I decided to try getting into a co2 system with using a hang on fluval 75 filter, so I bought a Sera 500 Reactor, got a 5 lb co2 tank with a regular regulator and hooked it up in the tank with a power pump. This dumped way too much co2 in my tank and ended up killing all my fish Which had me learn the hard way at setting it up. After killing all my fish I ended up shutting off the co2 regulator and doing a water change on the tank. I kept the tank with just plants and researched how to change the co2 system. Then I ended up getting a green hair algae bloom before hooking up my new co2 system. To get rid of it I took out everything with green hair algae that I could, boiled it on my stove in water and syphoned what I couldn't take out, also scrapped all the algae off the drift wood to have filter.
My out come....I bought a canister filter and hooked up my Sera reactor 500 to it, then running my air line to a 10lb co2 tank with a check valve and into a solenoid with an air bubblier. I also purchased a kit to test my co2 to make sure I don't have too much co2 pouring into the tank. Now I have a brown algae problem, which is all over my drift wood and on some of the leaves and stems of my plants. How can I fix this????
I can give you a lead up to how it started...... My tank was doing well with having a planted tank with fish. I had about 10 fish total ranging in 4 different tetras, an albino cat and a plecco. I decided to try getting into a co2 system with using a hang on fluval 75 filter, so I bought a Sera 500 Reactor, got a 5 lb co2 tank with a regular regulator and hooked it up in the tank with a power pump. This dumped way too much co2 in my tank and ended up killing all my fish Which had me learn the hard way at setting it up. After killing all my fish I ended up shutting off the co2 regulator and doing a water change on the tank. I kept the tank with just plants and researched how to change the co2 system. Then I ended up getting a green hair algae bloom before hooking up my new co2 system. To get rid of it I took out everything with green hair algae that I could, boiled it on my stove in water and syphoned what I couldn't take out, also scrapped all the algae off the drift wood to have filter.
My out come....I bought a canister filter and hooked up my Sera reactor 500 to it, then running my air line to a 10lb co2 tank with a check valve and into a solenoid with an air bubblier. I also purchased a kit to test my co2 to make sure I don't have too much co2 pouring into the tank. Now I have a brown algae problem, which is all over my drift wood and on some of the leaves and stems of my plants. How can I fix this????