talenzmeier
Aquarium Advice Activist
Greetings Fellow Aquarists!
I am in the midst of doing battle with my first algae bloom and I need your wise counsel. First, I have the ubiquitous green algae that discolors my water and I also have string algae that has attached itself to my plants.
Here are the facts as of last evening:
Tank: Oceanic 37 gallon Show
Filtration: Currently an Emperor 280 and a brand new Fluval 304. I'm running both simultaneously.
Livestock: 7 Danios, 12 Neon Tetras, 4 Cardinal Tetras, 4 Gouramis, 4 German Rams, 1 Gold Nugget Plecostomus, and 1 Dwarf Angelfish (the Angelfish was put into the tank on Wednesday).
Plants: 2 Amazon Sword Plants, 1 Annubias, 4 Pygmy Chain Swords, 6 Rotala Indica, and 6 Anubias Frazeri. The plants have a Coralife fluorescent lighting system, 28 inches and 65 watts. Up until this past weekend, the light was running for 12 hours a day. I have since cut it back to about 7 hours per day.
Here’s the latest chemistry: pH = 7.25, NO3 = 5.0 (Nitrate), NO2 (Nitrite)= < 0.3, PO4 (pH) = 1.5, KH = 7, GH = 13 The Nitrate and Phosphate testing equipment is from Red Sea and the rest is from Tetra
For the last week or so I have been using Kent Marine’s pH Minus to try and bring the pH below or around 7.0. Interestingly, the pH is always lower in the morning than in the evening.
I have a gravel substrate.
I am in the midst of doing battle with my first algae bloom and I need your wise counsel. First, I have the ubiquitous green algae that discolors my water and I also have string algae that has attached itself to my plants.
Here are the facts as of last evening:
Tank: Oceanic 37 gallon Show
Filtration: Currently an Emperor 280 and a brand new Fluval 304. I'm running both simultaneously.
Livestock: 7 Danios, 12 Neon Tetras, 4 Cardinal Tetras, 4 Gouramis, 4 German Rams, 1 Gold Nugget Plecostomus, and 1 Dwarf Angelfish (the Angelfish was put into the tank on Wednesday).
Plants: 2 Amazon Sword Plants, 1 Annubias, 4 Pygmy Chain Swords, 6 Rotala Indica, and 6 Anubias Frazeri. The plants have a Coralife fluorescent lighting system, 28 inches and 65 watts. Up until this past weekend, the light was running for 12 hours a day. I have since cut it back to about 7 hours per day.
Here’s the latest chemistry: pH = 7.25, NO3 = 5.0 (Nitrate), NO2 (Nitrite)= < 0.3, PO4 (pH) = 1.5, KH = 7, GH = 13 The Nitrate and Phosphate testing equipment is from Red Sea and the rest is from Tetra
For the last week or so I have been using Kent Marine’s pH Minus to try and bring the pH below or around 7.0. Interestingly, the pH is always lower in the morning than in the evening.
I have a gravel substrate.