AshRolls
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Well I realise this may seem like the aquarists' equivalent of a first world problem but I'm concerned about the lack of algae in my tank.
I have only had to clean the glass once in 10 months, and that was only for some barely noticeable patches of slight green.
There was a tiny amount of thread algae for the first 6 months or so, I maybe had to remove a couple of threads over this time that were growing off leaves/wood near the top of the tank.
There was one tiny bloom of BBA (a single fan about 7mm high).
It's a low-tech 180L using a single T5 tube on for 6 hours a day. Standard spraybar setup with two external filters rated at a total of10.5x tank turnover.
I was previously using liquid carbon, but I stopped this a few months back with no noticeable change to my plants or the level of algae.
The reason this lack of algae concerns me is that I would like to get some Oto's but I'm concerned there won't be enough food for them in the tank and they'll die of starvation!
Should I be concerned for potential Oto's?
Is it normal not to have to clean the glass in a low-tech?
*edit* By creating this post I understand that I have cursed myself to immediately falling victim to a massive algae outbreak.
I have only had to clean the glass once in 10 months, and that was only for some barely noticeable patches of slight green.
There was a tiny amount of thread algae for the first 6 months or so, I maybe had to remove a couple of threads over this time that were growing off leaves/wood near the top of the tank.
There was one tiny bloom of BBA (a single fan about 7mm high).
It's a low-tech 180L using a single T5 tube on for 6 hours a day. Standard spraybar setup with two external filters rated at a total of10.5x tank turnover.
I was previously using liquid carbon, but I stopped this a few months back with no noticeable change to my plants or the level of algae.
The reason this lack of algae concerns me is that I would like to get some Oto's but I'm concerned there won't be enough food for them in the tank and they'll die of starvation!
Should I be concerned for potential Oto's?
Is it normal not to have to clean the glass in a low-tech?
*edit* By creating this post I understand that I have cursed myself to immediately falling victim to a massive algae outbreak.