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To sump or n̶o̶t̶ to sump? (Swan Lake)

Okay struggling with this tank alot lately. Had a gda outbreak that went on for more then a month. Changed the lights to Skylight hyperspot FL I must say the colours are amazing and the light spread from 3 to 8 spots is way better. I love the light alot but it made my plants grow better and the algea got worse too. Last Saturday I cleaned the glass once again and dot 3x 50% water change this time. Now the gda is less but there is a brown diatoms outbreak 😔.
I dose weekly 22ppm K, 2.5ppm MG and 0,4 ppm of iron, spread out daily with an auto dose. No extra nitrogen or phosphates I got enough from fishload with 6 angels in there.
I think I have. My co2 good now ph 7.9 degassed and 6.6 when lights on and stable trough the day.
Anyone suggestions?
 
Luciën said:
No extra nitrogen or phosphates I got enough from fishload with 6 angels in there.
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Nah - not if you’re still injecting CO2, fish load will provide no where near enough N and P, that and the very high light from the Hyperspots will be contributing to your algae woes.
 
Wookii said:
Nah - not if you’re still injecting CO2, fish load will provide no where near enough N and P, that and the very high light from the Hyperspots will be contributing to your algae woes.
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Well that's exclusive all the tetras, Cory's, otto's.. With nitriet limitation the rotala should get red it just gets orange, it grows quite well and pearls, but no reds and I have the skilights blasting at full power.. 😅 I left Ei after always struggling with bba and tryed apt lean dosing style but I have more algea now then ever 😂 Maby the terrestrial plants eats up too much?
 
Luciën said:
Thanks, no recent foto's, well I could make it but it's just a mess 🙁
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Hopefully things get sorted out soon.
There was a tank on here (I think?) or might have only been on TPT - I think it was from MinorHero, but I can't find it anymore - Whomever it was had a similar setup with to yours and could not keep algae away because of nutrient competition from emersed plants.
 
Just kidding - here it is. Beautiful tank, and somewhere in the thread there is a battle between emersed and submersed plants. Not being able to find it was driving me mad.
 
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