I have had my new tank set up for 4 days now and it's currently undergoing quite a heavy bacterial bloom which I expected during cycling.
I didn't expect it to be quite so noticeable. The water is quite cloudy but the Redmoor wood is covered in a white slime that rubs of when touched.
I am doing 40% water changes everyday and was planning on doing so for the first week then every 3 days after for a week then just once a week. Is this a good way to go about it?
Plants wise they are doing okay, seeing a lot of crypt melt and a few of the Echinoduras rose and hygro pinnatedifila leaves are dying off.
My set up is a rena aqualife cube ~100 litres
Substrate is tropica capped with unipac fiji fine gravel.
Lighting is 2 x 15 watt t5 tubes and an interpet double led light strip, giving me approx 1.6wpg
co2 is through a fluval 88 system and a drop checker which is green.
Dosing tropica specialized fertiliser, which I am adding a small amount everytime I do a water change, the right thing to do or?
Is there anything I should be doing to quicken the process or help reduce the slime/cloudy water or will it disappear on its own?
thanks
I didn't expect it to be quite so noticeable. The water is quite cloudy but the Redmoor wood is covered in a white slime that rubs of when touched.
I am doing 40% water changes everyday and was planning on doing so for the first week then every 3 days after for a week then just once a week. Is this a good way to go about it?
Plants wise they are doing okay, seeing a lot of crypt melt and a few of the Echinoduras rose and hygro pinnatedifila leaves are dying off.
My set up is a rena aqualife cube ~100 litres
Substrate is tropica capped with unipac fiji fine gravel.
Lighting is 2 x 15 watt t5 tubes and an interpet double led light strip, giving me approx 1.6wpg
co2 is through a fluval 88 system and a drop checker which is green.
Dosing tropica specialized fertiliser, which I am adding a small amount everytime I do a water change, the right thing to do or?
Is there anything I should be doing to quicken the process or help reduce the slime/cloudy water or will it disappear on its own?
thanks