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update/question Omg I just looked at the plants I treated and the algae is reddish brown:dance: should I retreat them or no?? also i did manage to get my nitrates up to almost 5ppm.:thanks:

yea just test my other tank that is algea free and see this. I am going to work on what he said. I just added florinmulti to my tank and am following the rest ty all.

hi thank you all for your comments and suggestion. To answer some of the questions asked i do not know what my level of phosphates were prior to 4/5/2014. This is when I learned about it and bought a test and have been working ever since to reduce my phosphate through water changes. The water I...

55 gallon api co2 booster

reply to BillBug68 I seem to have beard algae. Before this i did water changes 1x week. I have always had algae problem. so what i did was removed all plants and did a 60% water change then bought all new plants. I am using quad t-5 lighting running 2x54 watt 12,000k and 2x54watt 6500k. I run...

I have moderate light plant. swords,ambius,java fern,jungle grass, penny wort,wisteria, and allot of others that i do not know what they are called. my lights run for 8 hours a day because I am running 2 x 54 watt 12,000k and 2 x 54 6,500k lights (t-5 light fixture). as far as phosphates I am...

hi everyone, I am having trouble still with algae. my water perimeters test perfect: PH-7.3 , Ammonia-0, Nitrite-0, Nitrate-0. Now I heard that phosphates will cause algae so I went and bought API Phosphate test. OMG, my phosphates are 10+. I have been using PhosLock for a week as well as doing...

ok I am currently running 1- 28 watt 6700K T5 lamp and 1- 28 watt Colormax T5 lamp... I am in the process of upgrading to 4-T5, 54-watt, high-output grow light 6500K, 20,000 lumens. now before I purchase another t5 light fixture my question is will what I have be enough for my 55 gallon planned...

10 gallon 10 gallon plant are from my 55 before i replanted..... ....they are looking a lot better my dwarf lily has color now (lol)

my 55

thank you SgtMjr . I can not wait to get a few more plants and filling that area on the right. I did lose one fish in this whole process but i guess it happens.

still have so concern on my light oh and i wont have them in until the 22nd. But once I have them I will be running 2x 54watt 6500k (full spectrum t5 white light) and 2x 28watt 6700k (full spectrum t5 white ligt). my tank is 55 gallons roughly 17 inches deep and 48 inces long all plants are...

hello everyone, i am still working on getting more plants for my tank but this is what I have so far. The fish store ran out of plant :D any way they will have more Tues. and I will be there. still have so concern on my light oh and i wont have them in until the 22nd. But once I have them I...

wow from what I see the tanks look great. I would kill for my tank to look that nice. great job. Thank you for you help. I wiull post again on Sat. with pics of my newly planted tank. I am in crestwood not far from Louisville but yes it is nice out here. I am originally from Florida. I have only...

I am at home all day. so my tank cats and dogs are my hobbies. Time is not an issue. I was just wondering how to do this step by step since I cant get my new plants until friday. I want a fully planted aquarium with fish.