monte carlo carpet

Hey all, I might be calling this too soon (as I know stabilizing a new tank takes time) but here goes: Started up a new planted tank running just about 3-4 weeks now. Encountering what looks to be patches of blue-green algae, diatoms, buce transition melt and monte carlo transition melt. The...

Hey all, looking for some advice with my 2 week old dry start. Panic is slowly starting to creep in so any help is well appreciated! Full view of the setup As mentioned, I'm at the 2week mark in my Monte Carlo dry start and the problems I currently have are as follows: TL/DR Some monte...

Planted my tank with a fresh batch of Monte Carlo looked amazing for the first couple of days but today it’s starting to light green instead of vivid green and now going mushy and limp any help would be much appreciated photos of when put in tank and a photo of it now Running co2 in the...

Recently Scaped a new aquarium and my Monte Carlo from day one didn’t look great but looked healthy now it’s dieing but showing good new growth it’s been about 2-3 weeks and haven’t seen much spreading would it be wise to take it all out and start again or leave it another week or two ? I have...

Hi all, I added new Monte Carlo into my new tank set up on Friday 25th Dec as that’s when I started the big project of getting the tank all ready and planted the first 7 days I I did a 50% water change I’m adding co2 into the aquarium also adding tropica plant food every morning tempture of the...

Hi there, Just settled this scape today for an Friend, though it was an good Idea to create an journal :-) He's an beginner so nothing too fancy here, just an kinda iwagumi setup full of easy plants. ;-) Tech: 60x40x40cm, optiwhite rimless tank, 96liters Twinstar e600 led JBL e901 filter...

Right so I started a new scape a few weeks ago and at the start it was good. The monte carlo carpet was growing fast and the moss was transitionin well. Then after 1 1/2 weeks I decided to dose my ei ferts (I hadn't used it in several months). A few weeks later I get this brown algae plague. I...

It’s been a while since I posted something here on the forum. So I would like to share a cube aquascape I set up a few weeks ago. The tank Is a fluval Chi. I bought this for 10£ on the festival of fishkeeping. They normally have some good prices during the show, specially on second hand tanks...