I'm a horrible person, I let this tank slide for 2 weeks due to massive over burden with work and life in general. Tested phosphates off the chart, would that explain sudden GSA? Nitrates were around 40!!! I suck... pulled about 50 shoots of blyxa out, you were right fresh.. what a mess.. thinned the tank, there was so much crap in there, no wonder nitrates were so high.. I'm going to only run one planted plus until.the plants catch up..mowed down the dhg to encourage spread and growth.. fingers crossed.
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Holy Blyxa blowout! Do you have an LFS that will take them off you hands for store credit? Lots of store credit.
Big storm heading your way I believe (not good for shipping this out to the peeps).
Major scapes turn my water to chocolate milk.
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Wow making me rethink Blyxa.
How often do you vacuum your sand substrate tanks normally?
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Wow! Wish I had my five gallon ready Id take some of those off your hands!
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I'm a horrible person, I let this tank slide for 2 weeks due to massive over burden with work and life in general. Tested phosphates off the chart, would that explain sudden GSA? Nitrates were around 40!!! I suck... pulled about 50 shoots of blyxa out, you were right fresh.. what a mess.. thinned the tank, there was so much crap in there, no wonder nitrates were so high.. I'm going to only run one planted plus until.the plants catch up..mowed down the dhg to encourage spread and growth.. fingers crossed.
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I'm a horrible person, I let this tank slide for 2 weeks due to massive over burden with work and life in general. Tested phosphates off the chart, would that explain sudden GSA? Nitrates were around 40!!! I suck... pulled about 50 shoots of blyxa out, you were right fresh.. what a mess.. thinned the tank, there was so much crap in there, no wonder nitrates were so high.. I'm going to only run one planted plus until.the plants catch up..mowed down the dhg to encourage spread and growth.. fingers crossed.
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I'm in the same boat with maintenance, man. I've been told and did a little research that high phosphates was an aquarium urban legend, good maintenance is the best solution. My nitrates are high too. Every time I do a wc I squeeze out the filters ( usually weekly) and run the hose along the bottom to suck any debris/waste. I recently planted blyxa and can see they are going to be a lot of work. Sucks you have to go through this, but you only have one person to blame....j/k
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I'm in the same boat with maintenance, man. I've been told and did a little research that high phosphates was an aquarium urban legend, good maintenance is the best solution. My nitrates are high too. Every time I do a wc I squeeze out the filters ( usually weekly) and run the hose along the bottom to suck any debris/waste. I recently planted blyxa and can see they are going to be a lot of work. Sucks you have to go through this, but you only have one person to blame....j/k
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How goes the gbr tank?
Getcha sleeves wet fish tank people!
It's going great, they spawned again 2 days ago. Plants are all looking pretty good, dhg is hitting it's stride. I'll get some pics up tommorow tiger!
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