Neil Blowfield
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Need some help with the tank please to see if am doing something wrong or should change anything.
Am currently 31 days in to cycling the planted tank and the readings are as follows: PH 7.4, AMM 0.25ppm, NITRI 0ppm, NITRA 40-80ppm, GH 13, KH 8.
The API test kit is good but hard to read sometimes so have attached a photo also
I am water changing 25-50% twice a week and the last two changes have added 10 and 25 litres of RO respectively (with tap water) to try to bring the GH down but it is not happening.
I am also not adding Ammonia as per advice from PFK magazine as the plants would produce a level of Ammonia to aid the tank cycling & adding more would produce an Algae bloom? Do my levels look like it is cycling or am I making a pigs ear of this?
Am also noticing what I think is Algae building on rocks and leaves, pics attached. Lights/Co2 back down to 5 hours from 6 and will clean rocks later with a toothbrush and trim brown leaves if better to do so also? Dosing EI ferts as per instruction.
Any help/advice very appreciated, thanks
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Am currently 31 days in to cycling the planted tank and the readings are as follows: PH 7.4, AMM 0.25ppm, NITRI 0ppm, NITRA 40-80ppm, GH 13, KH 8.
The API test kit is good but hard to read sometimes so have attached a photo also
I am water changing 25-50% twice a week and the last two changes have added 10 and 25 litres of RO respectively (with tap water) to try to bring the GH down but it is not happening.
I am also not adding Ammonia as per advice from PFK magazine as the plants would produce a level of Ammonia to aid the tank cycling & adding more would produce an Algae bloom? Do my levels look like it is cycling or am I making a pigs ear of this?
Am also noticing what I think is Algae building on rocks and leaves, pics attached. Lights/Co2 back down to 5 hours from 6 and will clean rocks later with a toothbrush and trim brown leaves if better to do so also? Dosing EI ferts as per instruction.
Any help/advice very appreciated, thanks
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