Iwagumi_Scaper
Member
Hi all,
So I've been doing a dry start on some Monte Carlo for a few months and have just recently flooded the tank and within a week I have a lot of algae growth. Some on the substrate but not too much, some on the rocks, and some appearing on the glass now as well. Injecting fairly high doses of co2 to begin with to keep the plants happy but gradually reducing. The tank is only 25L, with a 25W LED light producing 1200 lumens at max power. Now, this is possibly where the problem is coming from. I have it going at full whack for 8 hours a day at the moment. Should I reduce the intensity for such a small tank (height is 23cm approx)?
CO2 has been running at 1 bubble per second for the first week, which turns my drop checker yellow towards the end of the light cycle. This will get reduced to about 0.5 bubbles per second. Flow around the tank seems pretty good and the co2 is being distributed nicely. I'll also be starting a regime of fert dosing later this week.
If anyone can help with a strategy to get the tank balanced it would be great.
Many thanks,
Chris
So I've been doing a dry start on some Monte Carlo for a few months and have just recently flooded the tank and within a week I have a lot of algae growth. Some on the substrate but not too much, some on the rocks, and some appearing on the glass now as well. Injecting fairly high doses of co2 to begin with to keep the plants happy but gradually reducing. The tank is only 25L, with a 25W LED light producing 1200 lumens at max power. Now, this is possibly where the problem is coming from. I have it going at full whack for 8 hours a day at the moment. Should I reduce the intensity for such a small tank (height is 23cm approx)?
CO2 has been running at 1 bubble per second for the first week, which turns my drop checker yellow towards the end of the light cycle. This will get reduced to about 0.5 bubbles per second. Flow around the tank seems pretty good and the co2 is being distributed nicely. I'll also be starting a regime of fert dosing later this week.
If anyone can help with a strategy to get the tank balanced it would be great.
Many thanks,
Chris