Recent content by amritc1

Hi Dukydaf, The issue with my tank has been fixed by doing the following: So a massive Thank you for all contributing and the suggestions. 1. Blackout for 5 days 2. Reduce lighting 3. Increased CO2 4. Manually removed as much as algae as possible 5. And a heavy trim. 6. Started dosing El salts...

Hi Will, Sorry just been really busy with work and all. I am running the APS EF2 on a separate loop. The reason was I wanted to keep filtration separate from heater and co2 injection. Also needed more flow so just decided on an in-line pump for additional flow, you can never and enough...

Good point drop checker is a nice lime green. Image of my flow Drop checker is in the bottom right of this image. Thanks Edvet for your advise, will be updating the other thread this weekend :).

Finally got the chance to plumb this in and the results are great. I tried with a inline diffuser although the results were good was getting sick of the bubbles in the tank. Then I tried the Sera Flora reactor which was good but build quality and noise was an issue. Now I am using the APS...

Cheers guys, Did not get a chance to start the blackout this week, fingers crossed can find some time today. @Darrel, thanks been vacuuming and brushing as much of it as I can. @Clive, I have just started dosing Easy-Life Nitro at the moment only been a few days. Instruction say "10 ml per 500...

Thank you all so much, So much reading and just trying to Understand the natural way without too many algae killers. Would like to take the route of some sort of deficiency or error on my part to resolve this issue. Don’t want to nuke something that was caused by my mistake. I’ve had a read...

Hi Mel, Thanks for the info, going to try the blackout first and work with the nutrients. If this fails then will try peroxide after rehoming 100 cardinals, 50 shrimp, shrimplets, 3 ottos and 5 nerite snails. Oh and the 5 amanos. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks again,for pointing me in right direction. I am going to try the blackout based on Clive's comment in this thread https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/good-ei-discussion-split-from-pauls-200l-journal.12067/#post-127409 Some very useful information there and will update this thread after the...

Thank you for the prompt reply Edvet. Will give this a go and start the blackout tonight. I have just purchased EasyLife Nitro for dosing N hope this is ok? Do I still carry on dosing the with the blackout?

Thanks guys, Had a quick read about Erythromycine and think its not the route I would like to take. Fairly new to dosing so need to do a bit of reading around that. Daily Dosing as per usual - 5ml of Excel - 2ml of Ferro - 10ml of Profito Might invest in the EI salts from one of the sponsors...

Hi All, Seems like things are getting worse in the tank :( Full Tank shot from last night Since I last posted I have done the following: I have increased CO2 and decreased the lights. Two 60-70% water changes and another one due today. Cleaned filters and also added new Eheim...

WOW, very impressive can't wait for the Journal.

Hi All, Whilst on Holiday I came back to an empty bottle of CO2 and tank was full of algae. I am currently still removing the algae from the tank, trimmed everything back and have upped the CO2. Also I have reduced the light from 4 x 59w T5's without the LED strips. Photo period reduced from 7...

I’m not to worried as I have an FX 5 for doing the filtering and providing flow with a wave maker 3000 lph in the tank. I have another loop which is run by an Eheim 2000 in-line pump to do the heating and co2 work. Usually you do lose a bit with any reactor. Will test this over the weekend and...

Excellent Journal and a great read. Reading through this wants me to rip out my plumbing and start again. Great job and thanks for the advice.