AdamHorton
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I have a 20G planted freshwater tank, stocked with 5 zebra danios, 6 Blue Neon Tetras, 6 Black Neon Tetras, an albino pleco, a guppy fry, a few ghost shrimp, and some snails. Everything seemed to be going fine for a while until the last couple of weeks when the plants stopped growing and algae started growing. Here's a picture:
http://www.adamhorton.com/files/flog/freshalgae.jpg
The algae is starting to grow also on that java fern, which until now was the only plant really doing well, but now even that is having some trouble. For substrate I have flourite underneath a layer of that red gravel (can't remember what it's called, but I remember buying the good stuff). For lighting I have a 20W Flora-Glo running 12 hours each day.
I took some measurements last night:
Nitrate: 0 ppm (yeah, zero. It usually was around 10 or so but it's 0 now)
Phosphate: between 0.5 - 1
I don't really know anything about keeping aquatic plants -- I've read some of the articles here about it, but they're a little too general for me to figure out what's really going on here. Any suggestions?
http://www.adamhorton.com/files/flog/freshalgae.jpg
The algae is starting to grow also on that java fern, which until now was the only plant really doing well, but now even that is having some trouble. For substrate I have flourite underneath a layer of that red gravel (can't remember what it's called, but I remember buying the good stuff). For lighting I have a 20W Flora-Glo running 12 hours each day.
I took some measurements last night:
Nitrate: 0 ppm (yeah, zero. It usually was around 10 or so but it's 0 now)
Phosphate: between 0.5 - 1
I don't really know anything about keeping aquatic plants -- I've read some of the articles here about it, but they're a little too general for me to figure out what's really going on here. Any suggestions?