philipraposo198
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My tank has had algae almost from day one, my fault for bring plants in the tank with bba. At the time I had no clue about algae as I was still very new to the hobby. Fast forward to today, my tank is doing fairly well and is by no means overruled with algae but I do have some bba and hair algae in the tank.
I have tried several things to help reduce / control it but I have yet to really notice any real changes. I am beginning to feel a little lost in where to go from here and I am turning to you guys/gals in hope to get a better understanding of what's going on and how I am resolve it.
Here is a little video I took to showcase the algae.
Currently I am running the finnex planted plus lights for 8 hours a day, dosing the tank with 1/16th tsp of kh2po4 and 2 capfuls of flourish comprehensive once a week on different days. I have cut back on water changes to try and keep c02 levels consistant. I don't have c02 or use excel. I am not doing any more pruning or moving of plants for a bit till i can try and resolve this. This schedule has been running for only a week and a half doing these things. I was planning on running it like this for about a month to see how things are effected.
nitrates are steady at around 30ppm which is why i don't dose kno3.
ph is 6.6
temp is 80
my stock according to aqadvisor is around 105% and i feed once a day a good amount of food. food is a large variety of things day to day.
Thoughts? Advice?
I have tried several things to help reduce / control it but I have yet to really notice any real changes. I am beginning to feel a little lost in where to go from here and I am turning to you guys/gals in hope to get a better understanding of what's going on and how I am resolve it.
Here is a little video I took to showcase the algae.
Currently I am running the finnex planted plus lights for 8 hours a day, dosing the tank with 1/16th tsp of kh2po4 and 2 capfuls of flourish comprehensive once a week on different days. I have cut back on water changes to try and keep c02 levels consistant. I don't have c02 or use excel. I am not doing any more pruning or moving of plants for a bit till i can try and resolve this. This schedule has been running for only a week and a half doing these things. I was planning on running it like this for about a month to see how things are effected.
nitrates are steady at around 30ppm which is why i don't dose kno3.
ph is 6.6
temp is 80
my stock according to aqadvisor is around 105% and i feed once a day a good amount of food. food is a large variety of things day to day.
Thoughts? Advice?