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Ok thanks for that, I'll give that a go......want to try and sort this out before a house move.

According to EI calc @ FluidsOnline the tank is 64 Ltrs, I have stayed with 50% water change, 2ml EasyCarbo, 30Ml EI Macro and 1ml of Profito for 5 days then rest for 2, have also reduced lighting to 3 hours. (30w Eco Aqua) What is noticeable is that the Crypts and the Helferi (the helferi is...

Ok.....have dealt with the 'film' issue before so should be able to get this sorted.

Well this is improving.....growth has increased so have been able to trim some of it as well, as most the algae was toward the top of the plants. However, I have been getting what I can only describe as a foam on top of the water...this is a new on me and googling suggest's protein? but the...

Thx I'll give it a go.....

It was something I picked up on from a journal.....2 lots of lighting periods. Ok I could try and leave it on for a single period of time and monitor it. Thx.

Has no one got any suggestions.... :(

This is becoming frustrating.....the 'dirty algae' is back....and it's appeared in a matter of a couple of days, with no C02 I have increased the Easycarbo dose....but I'm beginning to wonder if it's a lighting issue...an Eco Aqua Led on for 2x4hrs with a break of 2hrs.

Well......Sunday morning and it looked like Chernobyl....but the fish are Ok have rehoused these in the other tank....and started again.....bought some plants locally and JBL Aquasoil Plus, managed to rescue a couple of swords with a few new leaves and most of the crptys, albeit most had just a...

Hm! It's not ammonia took a sample of water to a local lfs for testing, ammonia was 0.05ppm, there were 2 high reading's phosphate was off the chart, that's probably due to JI, and the ph was showing 8.4 higher than I expected would have expected lower due to the hardness of the water here.

Never thought of ammonia, although the fish are showing no signs of stress, the "dirty algae" hits the nail on the head, as the second tank which has just 4 plants in it in pots gets diatoms and that's just a dust both on the glass and the plants and that's easy to remove. I'm hoping that one of...

Decided last week to totally start from scratch, but kept all the plants, water, filter etc, temporarily re housed the fish. Used 2cm of John Innes No3 as the base covered with greenhouse mesh and topped with the original gravel (washed) 2cm's. Appears to have been a total mistake, the outbreak...

just potting compost, but you can use john innes...

just the soil.....

Well I've used just ordinary plastic pots, with potting compost, and some gravel on the top, these all sit in the next project's tank whilst I add various bits n pieces.....seems to work OK.

Re: Low Energy, Water Changes, CO2, Algae, and Pseudoscience You can bookmark any thread, once the thread is bookmarked you can go back and review it, re read it or keep for further reference. I've bookmarked some of Troi's threads, and threads where Darrel has posted re the duckweed index...

Re: Low Energy, Water Changes, CO2, Algae, and Pseudoscience :thumbup: Now that I understand, having bookmarked your threads for continued future reference I find I get lost/confused by the 'applied science' on what is essentially growing immersed plants.

Re: 40cm Cube Re scaped yesterday and added some hardscape.....once completed water was cloudy, not too worried see what it was like this morning. This morning water clear, like crystal, well pleased.....2.00pm added 2ml of EasyCarbo 1hr before lights on, have been doing this since initial...

Re: 40cm Cube Adding 2ml Easy Carbo and 5ml of Aqua Nourish from AE daily, and the water changes are still 50% every 2 days. Was thinking of adding Eustralis stellata, again from AE, removing the Limnophila seeing what can be rescued and re planting in a gap right at the back next to the...

Re: 40cm Cube Having replanted and replaced the gravel.....after 10 days we now have this.... Cube 2 by geaves, on Flickr however, I'm seeing some melt on the limnophila....don't know if you can make it out looks like a black blob behind the Alternanthera. Cube 3 by geaves, on Flickr this...

Re: 40cm Cube Thx, your being too kind.... :wink: the tank came with some reef sand which I was going to use, but with some further investigation on Saturday evening this is a no no. So Sunday it was a quick dash to the nearest lfs, so what we need is something finer from the centre to the...

I bought the cube and light from ebay, was sold as marine/tropical but it was originally purchased by the seller as a marine but never used. So on Saturday along with the wife (she's really keen on this) we set off and purchased the following: Eheim 2012 Heater Tetra Plant Complete Gravel...