humdingerx
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Hi everyone,
Really hoping someone can help with this. I have a 200 litre 4ft tank and have (once again!) got BBA growing all over the place.
The tank is tropical, has sand substrate, crypts, java ferns, bogwood, some nano anubias, a couple barteri broad leaf, amazon swords and some hygrophila polysperma as well as various mosses.
It's a relatively low light tank with a T8 30w daylight bulb. It used to have 2 x 8w LED lights which I swapped out for the lower light one as I had awful troubles with algae from my old higher light tank. So I figured the lower light would help this time.
The filter is a Fluval 306 and I also have a circulation pump in it to help flow around the tank.
I am doing weekly water changes around 50% with Prime.
The light is on 4 hours in the morning and 4 hours early evening.
I started dosing EasyCarbo around 5ml per day before the morning lights.
I've used Tetra Plantamin during the water change and do daily dose of 4 drops of JBL Ferropol
I put root tabs under the Swords and dotted around under the crypts.
Everything has BBA The java fern is slowly withering away along with the swords (I've never successfully grown swords, those are supposed to be easy!)
The ferns do have baby ferns just starting to grow off the tips. The barteri are sending up new leaves. One has even flowered amazingly enough! The mosses grow.
But all the plants apart from the moss have BBA or some kind of brown dot algae
The ferns look like they have holes in them before they melt and some of the sword leaves go transparent then melt away.
I've tried trimming the badly affected leaves off but am afraid I won't have much left at this rate!
I don't know if I have too much light period, not enough carbon, too much/not enough flow, too much/not enough nutrients.
But now I am in a position to "reset" my tank as the fish are going to a new owner.
I'm really thinking whole tank Hydrogen Peroxide treatment and maybe 3 days blackout as well?
What would work to kill all the algae and start over?? And what can I do to stop it coming back?
I gave up fishkeeping some time back but picked it back up again with the hopes to grow out plants for the fish but am once again losing hope of keeping living plants. The barteri are giving me some hope because I can see their new leaves coming up and one has flowered, but even those are getting algae on them...
Really hoping someone can help with this. I have a 200 litre 4ft tank and have (once again!) got BBA growing all over the place.
The tank is tropical, has sand substrate, crypts, java ferns, bogwood, some nano anubias, a couple barteri broad leaf, amazon swords and some hygrophila polysperma as well as various mosses.
It's a relatively low light tank with a T8 30w daylight bulb. It used to have 2 x 8w LED lights which I swapped out for the lower light one as I had awful troubles with algae from my old higher light tank. So I figured the lower light would help this time.
The filter is a Fluval 306 and I also have a circulation pump in it to help flow around the tank.
I am doing weekly water changes around 50% with Prime.
The light is on 4 hours in the morning and 4 hours early evening.
I started dosing EasyCarbo around 5ml per day before the morning lights.
I've used Tetra Plantamin during the water change and do daily dose of 4 drops of JBL Ferropol
I put root tabs under the Swords and dotted around under the crypts.
Everything has BBA The java fern is slowly withering away along with the swords (I've never successfully grown swords, those are supposed to be easy!)
The ferns do have baby ferns just starting to grow off the tips. The barteri are sending up new leaves. One has even flowered amazingly enough! The mosses grow.
But all the plants apart from the moss have BBA or some kind of brown dot algae
The ferns look like they have holes in them before they melt and some of the sword leaves go transparent then melt away.
I've tried trimming the badly affected leaves off but am afraid I won't have much left at this rate!
I don't know if I have too much light period, not enough carbon, too much/not enough flow, too much/not enough nutrients.
But now I am in a position to "reset" my tank as the fish are going to a new owner.
I'm really thinking whole tank Hydrogen Peroxide treatment and maybe 3 days blackout as well?
What would work to kill all the algae and start over?? And what can I do to stop it coming back?
I gave up fishkeeping some time back but picked it back up again with the hopes to grow out plants for the fish but am once again losing hope of keeping living plants. The barteri are giving me some hope because I can see their new leaves coming up and one has flowered, but even those are getting algae on them...