Matty123
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Hi all,
Happy Friday!
Getting a little frustrated with the reoccurrence of green tuft algae that I keep getting on my plants. It mainly appears on the plant that's featured in the picture (apologies I can't recall the name of it but it's the vallisernia looking one). I dose EI in accordance to aquarium plant food.co.uk (around 25-30ml's of macros 3 times a weeks and micros 3 times a week). I have good flow around the tank and plenty of co2 via an inline diffuser (drop checker light green at lights on and lime green/yellow at lights out). I currently add 4ml of Easycarbo per day (normal dose 2.5ml per day) 'overdosing' with the stuff in an attempt to get rid of it. Going on from James Planted Tank advise I mechanically remove the stuff and shot blast it with H202 every week and my filter is nice and mature and 'cleaned' every 2 weeks and no ammonia spikes. My tank is 129 litres (after displacement with gravel it's about 90 litres). Filtered by a Fluval 406 and a circulation pump so flow is good all round the tank (all tanks dancing/swaying). 60% water change every Saturday and good tank husbandry taken. Lights on from 15:00 and off at 21:45. Co2 on at 13:00 (2 hours prior to lights on) and off at 21:15).
Any help or advise would be welcomed thanks!
Matt
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Happy Friday!
Getting a little frustrated with the reoccurrence of green tuft algae that I keep getting on my plants. It mainly appears on the plant that's featured in the picture (apologies I can't recall the name of it but it's the vallisernia looking one). I dose EI in accordance to aquarium plant food.co.uk (around 25-30ml's of macros 3 times a weeks and micros 3 times a week). I have good flow around the tank and plenty of co2 via an inline diffuser (drop checker light green at lights on and lime green/yellow at lights out). I currently add 4ml of Easycarbo per day (normal dose 2.5ml per day) 'overdosing' with the stuff in an attempt to get rid of it. Going on from James Planted Tank advise I mechanically remove the stuff and shot blast it with H202 every week and my filter is nice and mature and 'cleaned' every 2 weeks and no ammonia spikes. My tank is 129 litres (after displacement with gravel it's about 90 litres). Filtered by a Fluval 406 and a circulation pump so flow is good all round the tank (all tanks dancing/swaying). 60% water change every Saturday and good tank husbandry taken. Lights on from 15:00 and off at 21:45. Co2 on at 13:00 (2 hours prior to lights on) and off at 21:15).
Any help or advise would be welcomed thanks!
Matt
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And judging off a picture is always a long shot.. And actualy doesn't change the cause which is fairly generaly simular far about any kind of algae. One that comes to mind if it mainly occurs on one typical plant there likely is something not right with the health of this plant. It aint growing and metabolizing very well and becomes susceptible to algae attack.. Or it might just be the slowest grower in the tank and there is a tad to much light for it. For example Java or Anubias are such typical slow growing plants beeing the first to show algae if the receive to much light while the faster growers stay spot on clean.
