Voxon
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
- Joined
- May 30, 2018
- Messages
- 16
Alright I will get right down to business, but first thanks for coming and helping! anyway I will be uploading several photos the first is of my tank pre-algae drowning event. The second will be current and today, ok to begin, I do not have any water testing kits the ones I do have are all kaput. So I will do my best to give the conditions of my tap water which I condition before adding to the tank(trying to switch to RODI going to be at least two more weeks before I can get my hands on a RODI filter). My water to say the least is hard I don't think this has as much to do with the issue as does the fact that before my tank was setup both substrate and plants that were in a previous algae filled tank were added to the aquarium. In my mind I thought hey no big deal I will be taking care of the aquarium right it will just disappear no. As you can see in the photo it went into complete takeover and my nerite snails only just started to take care of it. Unfortunately the two little guys seem to have gotten a tad full and have become lazy and wont do anything more I don't blame them though as they have a little bit more than a buffet going on here. I know I am supposed to do water changes and have been I have only just started by I have been only doing one every day which is 20% which I usually do every two weeks. I don't know how to stop it and it appears I apparently also have cyanobacteria which I believed to have had killed after I left the lights off for a week and covered the tank with a heavy blanket. Any and all help is needed feel more than welcome to respond and please help me through this! Thank you.