Daveslaney
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I have this black spot algae that comes only on my buce and anubius plants.What is it and is it caused by excessive light?
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Black spot algae
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I have this black spot algae that comes only on my buce and anubius plants.What is it and is it caused by excessive light?
Daveslaney
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Cheers Hogie.
Heres a FTS. The tank is 240 litres. I have a tetratec 1200 runs through the spraybar at the back pointing towards the front glass. Two fluval sea 2 powerheads on the back of the tank pointing at the front glass and a fluval 306 running through the lilly pipe on the right side of the tank. So i dont think the flow is the issue.
I run the co2 comes on 2 hours before the lights and my drop checker is lime green. So i think my co2 levels are consistant. Photoperiod is 8 hours.
I dose APF EI macro one day. Micro the next.
I have tryed spot treating with exel. Spot treating with h2o2 3%. Still it wont go away.
Its doing my head in now lol.
The only other thing i can think is my light. I have a arcadia led OTL. It has 4 separate timer channels for the mix of leds. But no way to alter the light intensity.
All i was thinking now is to get a EA universal hanging kit to hang the light higher above the tank to reduce the intensity that way?
Regards Dave.
Heres a FTS. The tank is 240 litres. I have a tetratec 1200 runs through the spraybar at the back pointing towards the front glass. Two fluval sea 2 powerheads on the back of the tank pointing at the front glass and a fluval 306 running through the lilly pipe on the right side of the tank. So i dont think the flow is the issue.
I run the co2 comes on 2 hours before the lights and my drop checker is lime green. So i think my co2 levels are consistant. Photoperiod is 8 hours.
I dose APF EI macro one day. Micro the next.
I have tryed spot treating with exel. Spot treating with h2o2 3%. Still it wont go away.
Its doing my head in now lol.
The only other thing i can think is my light. I have a arcadia led OTL. It has 4 separate timer channels for the mix of leds. But no way to alter the light intensity.
All i was thinking now is to get a EA universal hanging kit to hang the light higher above the tank to reduce the intensity that way?
Regards Dave.
Lovely tank
Get some floating plants.....this will help reduce the lighting!
Hygrophila difformis......would look great floating!
Try a 6 to 7 hour lighting period for a few weeks!
Try cleaning the leaves off of debris every few days!
Get some floating plants.....this will help reduce the lighting!
Hygrophila difformis......would look great floating!
Try a 6 to 7 hour lighting period for a few weeks!
Try cleaning the leaves off of debris every few days!
Daveslaney
Member
Thanks Hoggie.
I will try a 7 hour light period for a few weeks.
unfortunately floating plants get pushed underwater with the flow from the spraybar.
I will try a 7 hour light period for a few weeks.
unfortunately floating plants get pushed underwater with the flow from the spraybar.
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I'm definitely no expert but if it's anything like the problems that I'm having with my anubiases, if it's only on that plant alone, I'll hazard a guess and say it'll go away on its own if it's shaded from the light somewhat or moved a few inches to the left, right in front of the driftwood.
