I started out my tank a couple of months ago, and i didnt realise exactly what i was doing, until i read up more and found this place!
Now the dilemma i have is, my tank is hi tech, sort of. Let me explain, its a juwel trigon350, low light running T8 lights with reflectors at 1WPG- 90w in total and the tank is 350litres. I run pressurised co2 and i have been dosing AquariumPlantfoodUK's All in One fert every other day.
The intention was always that this would have to be a low maintenance tank (with time constraints due to work/family commitments). I could probably get away with doing water changes every 2 weeks, but for this to be done every week, this was really going to make this very impractical for me. Now when i started, it was going ok with the fortnightly changes, but then i had a staghorn algae breakout, which i have just about bought under control- due to weekly water changes, after a few weeks).
Now, i need to reduce my maintenance schedule, so that i can change the water on a fortnightly basis. Is this possible somehow for me to achieve without having an algae problem again? what changes would be required?
I started a thread on my tank from before, so that can be checked for further details:
viewtopic.php?f=49&t=19633&p=199209#p199209
Now the dilemma i have is, my tank is hi tech, sort of. Let me explain, its a juwel trigon350, low light running T8 lights with reflectors at 1WPG- 90w in total and the tank is 350litres. I run pressurised co2 and i have been dosing AquariumPlantfoodUK's All in One fert every other day.
The intention was always that this would have to be a low maintenance tank (with time constraints due to work/family commitments). I could probably get away with doing water changes every 2 weeks, but for this to be done every week, this was really going to make this very impractical for me. Now when i started, it was going ok with the fortnightly changes, but then i had a staghorn algae breakout, which i have just about bought under control- due to weekly water changes, after a few weeks).
Now, i need to reduce my maintenance schedule, so that i can change the water on a fortnightly basis. Is this possible somehow for me to achieve without having an algae problem again? what changes would be required?
I started a thread on my tank from before, so that can be checked for further details:
viewtopic.php?f=49&t=19633&p=199209#p199209