Recent content by jonwes

It's a fish only tank, so no plants. Will cutting the light by two hours really make any difference? This brown algae seems to cover everything and once it picks up momentum, there's nothing slowing it down. I'm currently trying two of the Coralife Color Max bulbs to see if the Home Depot...

I have a 40 gallon freshwater tank with 5 red minor tetras, a weather (dojo) loach, 4 giant danios, 5 black skirt tetras, a pictus catfish, a yoyo loach, and 1 blood fin tetra. I'm running an Emperor 400 and two internal Whisper 30i filters; two airstones, and a U.V. sterilizer. Now down to my...

I should add that the algae is definitely not from high nitrates, as I have had the same load of fish for the last six months or more without any problems and I have been doing weekly 35% water changes. Definitely not overfeeding either, as I only feed them one blood worm cube every other day...

My 40 gallon tank was perfectly clear for the last few months and suddenly I am getting a bunch of reddish brown algae over my decorations and gravel. The only thing I can think of that changed recently is that I put a couple of new cartridges in my Emperor 400 with new activated carbon in them...

This is my first post to an AA forum, hopefully I cover all the details. . . I've had my 40 gallon tank set up for the last 14 months and I've had a couple of weather loaches for the majority of that time. They have always been super healthy, until recently. Practically overnight, the bigger...