LancsRick
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Ok, well a few weeks ago I stripped down my Fluval Ebi because I'd lost a battle with hair algae and brown algae on the glass. Despite dropping my lighting I was still not winning (and dosing glut for a short time), so I decided that starting afresh was the best option.
When I put the tank back up, I dropped to a 3 hour photoperiod, and given that the supplied light on the Ebi is really bright, I've put 4 layers of frosted film + a sheet of A4 paper over the top of the tank to knock down the lighting levels.
Despite this, about a month after I redid the tank, I'm getting hair algae reappearing on the ele. acic. sp mini.
I'm really stumped at this point, as my usual approach of "drop the light intensity and photoperiod" can't really go any further from 3 hours, that level of "obscuring" surely? I'm dosing all-in-one weekly, and running an e700 at half throttle.
I really don't want to go back to dosing glut as I want this to be a low tech tank.
Any and all help appreciated at this point, since I'm clearly doing something wrong, but don't have the foggiest idea what!
When I put the tank back up, I dropped to a 3 hour photoperiod, and given that the supplied light on the Ebi is really bright, I've put 4 layers of frosted film + a sheet of A4 paper over the top of the tank to knock down the lighting levels.
Despite this, about a month after I redid the tank, I'm getting hair algae reappearing on the ele. acic. sp mini.
I'm really stumped at this point, as my usual approach of "drop the light intensity and photoperiod" can't really go any further from 3 hours, that level of "obscuring" surely? I'm dosing all-in-one weekly, and running an e700 at half throttle.
I really don't want to go back to dosing glut as I want this to be a low tech tank.
Any and all help appreciated at this point, since I'm clearly doing something wrong, but don't have the foggiest idea what!