I think no one has asked the most important question about the algae... What kind of algae is it? What does it look like? Color? How does it grow? Where does it grow?
Dying Guppies. Help!
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Agree with that too. Livebearers from bulk supplier in Florida and Asia (where 99% of them come from) just aren't healthy.
aclockworkorange;4897571; said:
There are a few types that are growing. On a couple of the plants' leaves there is a a brown grassy/hairy looking algae. The stuff on, what the container called a kyoto plants, is a dark green slime like algae that I have to scrape off every month or so in oder to let the plants get some light. Then, of course, there is the slightly harder green algae that grows on the rocks and glass and such. I know this one is super common and it occurs in all tanks. As of right now, all of the algae is brown from the algaefix.
gregkarr09;4897589; said:
It is near a window, but the binds are down about 80% of the time, for sure during high sun hours they are down.
Put your light on a Timer 4 hours on MAX, than off for an hour or so, than back on again.... The trick here is to never leave your lights on more than 4 hours.
Algae is not very good at photosynthesis not like plants are. Plants will Start converting Light energy the second the lights turn on, algae needs 4hours of steady light before it starts the photosynthesis process, Once it starts tho it is a very fast grower,
A very experienced person told me this years ago, and I have never had an algae problem since.
He runs his system (heavily planted) lights on 3 hours off 1, on again 3 hours off for one, and over and over again. there is ZERO algae in his tank
Algae is not very good at photosynthesis not like plants are. Plants will Start converting Light energy the second the lights turn on, algae needs 4hours of steady light before it starts the photosynthesis process, Once it starts tho it is a very fast grower,
A very experienced person told me this years ago, and I have never had an algae problem since.
He runs his system (heavily planted) lights on 3 hours off 1, on again 3 hours off for one, and over and over again. there is ZERO algae in his tank
