Recent content by Tony F

Thank You Rivercats Hi Rivercats, Just wanted to follow up by happily telling you after following your advise for the past four weeks my tank is now crystal clear and the algae is 90% gone and fading. I've cut down ferts considerably and got my CO2 balanced. Beginning to see some good...

Can't thank you enough for your help, Rivercat. I think I have the upper hand finally on getting this under control. I'll remove the actinic bulb today I increased co2 to one bubble per second, watching my drop checkers and will readjust as required. Started H2O2 treatment, it's bubbling...

Here are some pics to give you an idea of my setup Tony

Thanks for the reply Rivercat. I did a 50% water change last night and cleaned the eheim canister, replacing all the pads with new ones. The old pads were a couple years old, I clean the the canister every two to three months, rinsing the media lightly so as not to disturb / kill off bacteria...

I'm trying to get nitrates under control (algae issues), but I can't figure out what I have. ELOS test kit reads 1 mg/l, Seachem tells me 20 mg/l, API (liquid) is reading 40 ppm, and API test strips are reading between 40 and 80 ppm. Tested Seachem reference solution and it's spot on 10...