Rob P
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Not happy 😡 lol
I've never had issues with surface scum until running a high tech tank, and that's taken care of nicelty with eheim skim 😉
However, my low tech mini m that has been running two weeks now has a pretty visible layer of surface scum and i don't know why.
It's been running two weeks now, had daily 50% water changes for week 1, and every other day 50% for the last week.
It's approx 20 litres with 1 x 8w T5 on for 5 hours filtered by Eden 501. Substrate is florabase, there's quite a few plants in that appear to be growing well. Surface has a decent covering of salvinia natans to help limit lighting. Every time I do water change I put a small squirt of my EI macro in (0.5mm when doing daily WC, 1mm this last week).
I put 5 red cherry shrimp in last Sunday.
Any ideas what's causing this and how to get rid (i can't fit an skim unit in lol).
Thanks!
Rob 🙂
I've never had issues with surface scum until running a high tech tank, and that's taken care of nicelty with eheim skim 😉
However, my low tech mini m that has been running two weeks now has a pretty visible layer of surface scum and i don't know why.
It's been running two weeks now, had daily 50% water changes for week 1, and every other day 50% for the last week.
It's approx 20 litres with 1 x 8w T5 on for 5 hours filtered by Eden 501. Substrate is florabase, there's quite a few plants in that appear to be growing well. Surface has a decent covering of salvinia natans to help limit lighting. Every time I do water change I put a small squirt of my EI macro in (0.5mm when doing daily WC, 1mm this last week).
I put 5 red cherry shrimp in last Sunday.
Any ideas what's causing this and how to get rid (i can't fit an skim unit in lol).
Thanks!
Rob 🙂