Recent content by Fish_in_Utah

I’m having an insane time dealing with is… my tank is not new…it’s an established 6 month tank and every other day after cleaning it I get build up badly. All my plants turn brown and only after a week it’s unbearable to look at so I change the water about 30% when diatoms appear on the sides...

Honestly, this is my first planted tank. I always used fake plants but really wanted to move to a living aquarium so I did some research to get started but that’s about it, I then got some advice from the fish store people and they had instructed me to put tabs in the substrate and fertilize the...

Appreciate the advice! I forgot to mention I also have roots tabs in the substrate so I may be providing my plants with excess of nutrients. I will check my water nitrates prior to changes. I also have moved my light timer to only 6 hours now, you think that would help?

I do roughly 25% water changes in a week all while adding Seachem flourish twice a week, I have 5 snails in the tank with 11 fish, and I have my light on with a timer of 8 hours but my tank and plants grow algae too fast...what am I doing wrong and what can I do to fix this issue? Thank you all