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I have been battling with diatom for long time. Now my tank is diatome free lol. I think for a new tank what really help is bio mass ! you need to add fast growing plants and a lot of it. Second will be filter, you need to have a filter that is mature and have a good bacterial colony. Water...

Hi Martin, just to let you know that I don't have any more diatom in my tank !!!! I have add a lot of hygrophilia to up the biomass, and I turned off CO2, reduce my flow and reduce light. After two weeks or more of this regime, no more diatoms, after I decided to turn back CO2 very low, and it...

Hi Sacha, Or it is just that your plant mass have increase to a level that CO2 is not enough and maybe plant mass is a bit blocking flow (distribution) cheers

Hi thanks for your answer, I will put some bio media in my filter, I only have foam and floss in it. I thought that bacteria could colonized what ever media you put in. I will add some fast growing plants like hygro, swords, valisneria, etc ... My tank is running since 4 months now or even more...

Hi Martin, I wanted to say that I am totally supporting you on this fight with diatom !!! I am living the exactly same situation than yours since a year or so. I have done 3 different scape (or more) in two different tank, and all have been ruined by brown algae. Plants are not growing, diatom...

Hi If you click the link, you will go to the forum, from there you look for the new thread about this. They have add many graph and also they have put graph and infos about LED light. I have read it three day ago, so I confirm that you will find the info. For you Ph profile it would be...

Thank you Clive for this nice explanation again !!!! This time you didn't take acid batterie example ?? Lol We love you Clive hahaha

Hi Clive, very interesting what you are saying there. I know that if KH is low than you need a bigger drop of the ph. But I didn't had a clue of how much. How did you ESTIMATE that 3 point drop for a KH 3 ? that would be interesting to know lol. So with my soft water like martin I should drop...

Hi ZAID, how are you ? welcome to the forum. your two algae are CO2 Light and flow related mate. CO2 must be on before lights ON that is very important. Because plants start their process as soon as the light is on. The first hours of the photoperiod is very important, so it is during these...

Hi I think that could work with moss, but it will be better to follow tim's recipe because it is less concentrate and will maybe be less harmfull for the moss. Before doing this please try to ask to an expert if this can be done with moss. regards

Hi I did an other method more concentrate one. I have only left the plant for 5 min in it and it did work well. few days after no more algae !!! cheers

Hi What is the size of the tank ? Maybe 4x39 is too much. Cheers

Hi Tim Thanks for your answer ! I have done it yesterday hope that it will do well. Thank again

Hi members, Yesterday I have put down my 70 G tank because I am living the country for 3 weeks. But I keep my 20 G tank running, I wanted to introduce some plants from the 70 to the 20 G but they have a bit of hair algae on it. Not much but I would like to "kill" them before they go in the 20...

Your outflow is at the front right corner, I would have put the inlet in the back rear right corner(the same side but at the back). I don't know if you understood sorry for my English. I am sure that there is a hundred of more experimented aquascaper than me,that will correct me if I am wrong...

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Yes ph tell you how acid or basic your water is (but it s a bit more complex) I will not go in details because I don't have the good knowledge for that. And if I start explaining I am sure that some people like Ceg4048 or plantbrain or other will come and beat my fingers because of mistake I can...

If you want you can have a complete read of that thread there are a lot of infos in there ! Not only on light Co2 but on lots of things ! Hope you'll like the reading. Dymax Tropical 36 watt | UK Aquatic Plant Society

Hi So you are in the same case than me :) no live stock, that means you can push CO2 as far as you want ! But that doesn't mean you have to waste your CO2. If drop checker is yellow that would "mean" that CO2 must be good ! Buuuut a yellow drop checker doesn't mean good distribution, you must...

Hi mate, I am not an expert but this type of algae is related to CO2 or distribution issue. Try to up you CO2 (if you can because of live stock) maybe the injection rate is no more sufficient for the bio mass you have now. Check from zero your distribution system. Maybe flow is not any more...

Hi Thanks guys for your answers ! Yes I think you are wright it diatomic algae. The tank is not new it's running for 6 month now. Well thanks again and hope to come with a nice new scape after holidays !

Hi guys I have been fighting this algae for more than 5 weeks. I think it was BGA so I started double dosing KNO3 and doing 2x50% water change, plus cleaning and substrate vacuuming (1/4 of the tank each week). But I still have this algae. So now I start thinking its not BGA. Here are the spec...

Hi I have had the same situation than yours. I bring back some plants from ADA Thailand, and had some riccia in it. The weird thing is that these plants (HC) were in a tank and its only when I moved the carpet to the second tank that it start to grow. Like three month after my trip to...