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Algae issue

Mark12345

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Hi, hope someone can assist, as you can see from the picture, there is some fine grass like algae that appeared on my wood, it seems to be spreading at quite a rate. I've tried vacuuming it off, and also had a toothbrush on it, all to no avail, it seems really tough. Will reducing my light hours help, or is something else. It didn't bother me when it was on the wood, but it seems to be growing on some plant now. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Sorry about the photo quality.
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Mark12345 said:
Thanks for the swift replies, it’s a 300l tank and I’m doing 40/50 l water changes every other day, the pre-filter gets cleaned with the water change, it’s a oase biomaster 350. the lights are on for 12 hours at the moment ( now I’ve written this down it seems an awful lot of time).
The setup is about 3 months old, I’m not using co2.View attachment 206595
The algae is soft but Ive never kept shrimp before and am somewhat unsure what special requirements they need.
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Amano shrimps don’t need too much special treatment really in healthy aquarium like this and they’ll get to work straight away. I personally have always found floating plants to help (you can always reduce the quantity of these later when things settle down). You could look to...
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One could mix Tropica Premium and Specialised if they were looking to increase micro fert levels without dosing more macro ferts. Premium is micro with a bit of K, Specialised is macro (NPK) and micro.
Usually for beginners it's better to stick with one complete fertilizer though, unless its known that a usage case like I mentioned is needed.
 
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Hufsa said:
One could mix Tropica Premium and Specialised if they were looking to increase micro fert levels without dosing more macro ferts. Premium is micro with a bit of K, Specialised is macro (NPK) and micro.
Usually for beginners it's better to stick with one complete fertilizer though, unless its known that a usage case like I mentioned is needed.
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Does anyone have any recommendations for a beginners fertiliser, or are they much the same.
 
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Hi all,
Mark12345 said:
Does anyone have any recommendations for a beginners fertiliser, or are they much the same.
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On one level they are much the same, because plants can only take up nutrients as ions, charged particles in solution.

This means that <"every nitrate ion (NO3-)"> is the same as every other one, they don't know which fertiliser they came from, or <"how much it cost">.

I'm using <"Solufeed 2 1 4">, and I would recommend it.

Cheers Darrel
 
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dw1305 said:
Hi all,

On one level they are much the same, because plants can only take up nutrients as ions, charged particles in solution.

This means that every nitrate ion (NO3-) is the same as every other one, they don't know which fertiliser they came from, or how much it cost.

I'm using "Solufeed 2 1 4", and I would recommend it.

Cheers Darrel
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Thanks, I'll add it to my never ending shopping list.
 
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Hufsa said:
Duckweed would work but its very difficult to keep under control, quite a few people regret introducing it to their tanks
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I can testify to that! ✋ Especially if you combine Duckweed with say Frogbit, it quickly becomes a nightmare if your tank is well nourished as the duckweed will grow extremely fast and make it into all the nook and crannies of the frogbit making it really had to control and weed out.
Duckweed all by itself with no other floating plants or other plants partially emerged is probably fairly easy to manage I would think.

Cheers,
Michael
 
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