DanS180
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Try adding a little drop to the tank about 5 mins before feeding. Whenever I do this I get a lot better feeding response that way everyone usually gets fed.
okay, do you spot feed or just dump it into the tank?
Try adding a little drop to the tank about 5 mins before feeding. Whenever I do this I get a lot better feeding response that way everyone usually gets fed.
Spot feeding is normal but you can safely tank feed if you turn off the filter for about 10 minutes and leave the powerheads on. That'll keep the roaming food from being pulled into the filter pads and let the animals have a good chance at scooping it out of the water.
DanS180 said:Think I'm gonna scrub my tank tomorrow and leave the lights off for like a week.. darn cyano is all over the place again :/ esp the back wall(even with a powerhead pointed right at that area)
22engine said:I hear ya man. My Dino came back after a week of it being gone. So lights out again. Pain in the as*.
Mrc8858 said:To both of you... If its coming back that quickly the lights out is gonna just be a bandaid until you find the cause to it.
Mrc8858 said:High nutrients levels from over feeding, bad source water, or an unknown dead inhabitant.
To many fish usually. Algae becomes a winnable battle with a small fish load and a constant battle with a large fish load. I would keep two fish max in a 29. If you mod your skimmer it would also help. Are you running GFO, phosban or ChemiPure elite to deal with phosphates? A small bag of Purigen would help with DOCs.
Anything to fight algae over time is worth a look. I know your filter has limited space. ChemiPure Elite would be a good choice because it's a combo chemical media. You could even halve or third a bag to get it to squeeze in behind the normal filter pads. Then once it's ready to be changed you could swap out the exhausted media for the reserved stash.
I meant something more like a dead fish or shrimp. Something meaty lol. The duster shouldn't be a problem imo.
DanS180 said:i dont really have a "load" per say, i mean i have 5 fish in there but theyre all nano and my trAtes never go up, in fact, my trAtes are always 0.
right now i have Seachem's phosguard in my filter, which IMO isnt doing squat. guess ill check out ChemiPure Elite and see how that helps. in any event, looks like i have to rearrange some rocks and get my hands dirty to clean a lot. sigh...
CorallineAlgae said:It isn't always about nitrates. Honestly you're setup is excellent, I'd be shocked if you had nitrates even with a large bio load. Five fish will make algae harder to deal with, even tiny ones. Nothing at all wrong with having them. It's just more work, but the payoff is in having the fish.
I hear what you're saying about the phosguard. It takes forever for that stuff to kick in. lol
Omg I've had it in there for almost a month I think and my phosphates still haven't gone anywhere! Lol what a waste of $7.
CorallineAlgae said:It could be that while your phosphates were "rising" before adding the phosban, they're "holding steady" with it in the filter. Your phosphate production rate may simply be even with PO4 absorption rate. Looked at in that way, it may not be a waste. I'd give it three months before deciding. Takes forever to drop the levels when feedings are involved.