FirstClassFish
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What the heck is this? I’ve never personally seen an algae like this. It appeared a few days after increasing lighting on my aquasky by about 10%. Unfortunately I have to have a lot of things floating right now as I only have temporary setups in totes as I’ll be moving in the near future. My light is still less than 50% on what isn’t a super high output fixture in the first place. It’s also about 8” above the setup.
It’s newly cycled so still getting settled. Parameters are good and it gets ferts.
This stuff appeared seemingly overnight and spread very quick. I had diatoms too, but cleaned them up a week ago and not sure if they’re still gonna be an issue. There are Buce in here that are still iffy on whether or not they’re gonna survive or not so I want to keep them clean of algae and I also don’t want to be always disturbing them cleaning their leaves.
Any suggestions?
This is about a 5 gallon shallow tote with one Betta in it. I was gonna order some otos to clean it up, but they like groups and I didn’t want to add too much bio-load. However, I could order a group and let them clean and then move them to a bigger tote I have with some cherry shrimp.
I have heard about hillstream loaches as an alternative to otos as you can keep them singly. Are they as good of an algae eater though?
The cherries can’t go in there as I tried that experiment and the Betta harasses even the bigger ones. Can’t really try Amanos as the size you buy them at is too small. The Betta probably wouldn’t bother a full sized one.
Could do a pleco, but they’re more picky on what they want to eat.
I’m trying to out compete the algae with good growth of course, but since it’s a new setup it’s hard to know I just need to wait it out or not or I need to cut lighting down. If I cut lighting down too soon other growth could be hindered.
Any thoughts welcome
After posting on a couple FB groups nobody knew what it was. Disconcerting that some very experienced people never experienced it.
After that I continued to dig and this is as close as I could find to the problem, but alas no solution as it seems to happen more in aquaponics and I’m not positive it’s the same thing.
A couple things make me doubt it a bit.
-no moths in my apartment and that’s what lays these
-they are also in my other tote, but on the black airline tubing where they show up a lighter brown and not black
Otherwise though they look pretty close.
Here is the Reddit thread on the Lead Miners
I’ll include a pic of my plants.
It’s newly cycled so still getting settled. Parameters are good and it gets ferts.
This stuff appeared seemingly overnight and spread very quick. I had diatoms too, but cleaned them up a week ago and not sure if they’re still gonna be an issue. There are Buce in here that are still iffy on whether or not they’re gonna survive or not so I want to keep them clean of algae and I also don’t want to be always disturbing them cleaning their leaves.
Any suggestions?
This is about a 5 gallon shallow tote with one Betta in it. I was gonna order some otos to clean it up, but they like groups and I didn’t want to add too much bio-load. However, I could order a group and let them clean and then move them to a bigger tote I have with some cherry shrimp.
I have heard about hillstream loaches as an alternative to otos as you can keep them singly. Are they as good of an algae eater though?
The cherries can’t go in there as I tried that experiment and the Betta harasses even the bigger ones. Can’t really try Amanos as the size you buy them at is too small. The Betta probably wouldn’t bother a full sized one.
Could do a pleco, but they’re more picky on what they want to eat.
I’m trying to out compete the algae with good growth of course, but since it’s a new setup it’s hard to know I just need to wait it out or not or I need to cut lighting down. If I cut lighting down too soon other growth could be hindered.
Any thoughts welcome
After posting on a couple FB groups nobody knew what it was. Disconcerting that some very experienced people never experienced it.
After that I continued to dig and this is as close as I could find to the problem, but alas no solution as it seems to happen more in aquaponics and I’m not positive it’s the same thing.
A couple things make me doubt it a bit.
-no moths in my apartment and that’s what lays these
-they are also in my other tote, but on the black airline tubing where they show up a lighter brown and not black
Otherwise though they look pretty close.
Here is the Reddit thread on the Lead Miners
I’ll include a pic of my plants.