steve5520
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I've had freshwater tanks in the past, and after several years of having just a reef tank, I decide to start them up again.
I currently have two 30 gals set up and running for maybe 5 or 6 months now. One has a Marineland Emperor 400 filter, the other a Whisper. I only have fish in one tank right now, but plants in both. I have a variey of species, all plants seem to be doing very well. The one with fish has some platys, 6 cory cats and a pleco.
I have been adding Excel and Flourish on a regular basis.
One has a Coralife light fixture with a 96 watt PC 6700k bulb. The other has a fixture with 2 30 watt Ultra Sun Trichromatic bulbs.
I am getting some type of algae that I've never seen before. It's hard to describe, stringy almost like a fiber. Sometimes it grows off a rock, other times it just get entwined in the plants. It's growing in both tanks.
I have been running the lights for around 11 hours a day.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated. It's getting tiresome pulling this junk out of the tanks.
I currently have two 30 gals set up and running for maybe 5 or 6 months now. One has a Marineland Emperor 400 filter, the other a Whisper. I only have fish in one tank right now, but plants in both. I have a variey of species, all plants seem to be doing very well. The one with fish has some platys, 6 cory cats and a pleco.
I have been adding Excel and Flourish on a regular basis.
One has a Coralife light fixture with a 96 watt PC 6700k bulb. The other has a fixture with 2 30 watt Ultra Sun Trichromatic bulbs.
I am getting some type of algae that I've never seen before. It's hard to describe, stringy almost like a fiber. Sometimes it grows off a rock, other times it just get entwined in the plants. It's growing in both tanks.
I have been running the lights for around 11 hours a day.
Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated. It's getting tiresome pulling this junk out of the tanks.