Need some advice/input regarding my tank.

[ss720]

Are you running C02? If not. Flourish excel will help as well. I had similar struggles with algae I reduced feeding, reduced lighting and added weekly doses of excel after water changes. Made a big difference

No co2.

I add daily 27 ml of karbo. It's called happy life karbo.
Good for plants and algae prevention, supposedly.

I've never heard of flourish excel, care to enlighten me?



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[ss720]

nope. bioload is the life in the tank. while the bacteria in there technically counts, they're the ones that are dealing with the rest of the bioload. reducing the bioload means removing some of the fish.
there's no need to feed twice a day, or even daily. switch to once a day, every other day. that in itself will probably make a big difference.

Ok, I'll start with feeding them every second day now for a while, see how that fares.
That's a good start, should've thought of that myself.

At the moment there's perhaps only a couple of fish I'd consider removing.
Like 2/3 of the butter fly fish, maybe the delhezi, but the rest I'd wish to keep.


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[Binge]

Flourish excel can kill algae at one dose but is a co2 booster for your plants as well. If you have any val in the tank though it can melt that too.

I had a fair outbreak in my 125 of green hair algae I left the lights off for a couple days and it killed off a bunch of it.

 

[ss720]

Flourish excel can kill algae at one dose but is a co2 booster for your plants as well. If you have any val in the tank though it can melt that too.

I had a fair outbreak in my 125 of green hair algae I left the lights off for a couple days and it killed off a bunch of it.

Thank you for the information.

I can't afford it at the moment, as shipping from the USA is expensive considering I'm ordering a new batch of purigen and a large container of flourish. But in a few weeks I might get it through a local shop much cheaper.

But I appreciate the info, and I did a new water change today, but first I went over the driftwood and plants with a toothbrush to get most of the attached algae in the water, then just siphon must of it out.

It looks a bit better, but will repeat on Sunday.
Tomorrow I'm getting my shrimps and SAE, + more snails.

I won't feed them for a week, I'm guessing they'll get enough to snack on as the fish and shrimp are introduced.
After a week, I'll start feeding them every second day as advised by a earlier post.






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[Gill Blue]

I was thinking maybe you could do your water change late night, when it wouldn't matter if you use all the warm water.

 

[ss720]

I was thinking maybe you could do your water change late night, when it wouldn't matter if you use all the warm water.

Wouldn't work for me or the other people.

I do my water changes early in the weekdays when people aren't home and on Sunday's after 2 in the afternoon.
I rather do more water changes a week, than 70-90% water change in one go.

Problem is if I do it late night, it would be to noisy.

I'm using Aqua vac and siphoning from the kitchen sink and people might need to use the sink, so I prefer to do it when people are not home, and I usually wait to do it on Sunday's until they are all awake to respect their sleep. And If I meet them in the hall before setting up, I ask for their permission, but they know Sunday's when I do my water changes, and they have no problems with it. Great neighbors and a even greater house owner.

He made my rental contract contain the fact that I'm permitted to have an aquarium, so it wouldn't be any problems with my insurance if the tank leaked. Even had his kid come to my room couple of times to see the fish and sometimes feed them.

Can't get him to not touch the glass, but I can live with that


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[Gill Blue]

it's actually better to do the larger, mathematically it works out to better water quality, there was a thread on it, I looked for it, but couldn't find it.
but oh well.

 

[mudbuttjones]

+1 on flourish excel. I have a low tech non c02 planted 40 gal. It got rid of my algae problem. Wasn't immediate but after a couple weeks it was gone.

Nobody carries it locally so I switched to a similar product made by API. Some say its not as good as seachem, but it does the job. Just make sure you dose daily


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[Drstrangelove]

it's actually better to do the larger, mathematically it works out to better water quality, there was a thread on it, I looked for it, but couldn't find it. but oh well.

This is mathematics.

If you remove 70% of the water every 7 days, as compared to 10% each day, you overall remove the same amount of water and the same amount of nitrates, but the quality is different.

E.g., assume a tank that starts with zero nitrates and adds 10 ppm per day and has run long enough to reach equilibrium. (Equilibrium occurs when the amount of nitrates removed equals the amount added since the last water change.)

In the first case, you'll remove 70 nitrates on day 7 (100*70%), and the tank will drop to 30 nitrates. In the second case, you'll remove 10 nitrates every day (100*10%), and the tank will drop to 90 nitrates. Both remove the same amount of water and nitrates, but in the first case nitrates range from 30 ppm (day 1) to 100 ppm (day 7), while in the second case nitrates range each day from 90 to 100 ppm.

Obviously, the overall average quality is better in the first case.

 

[Monster_Minis]

I too think the water changes are where you're going to see better results. Otherwise how long has been since the bulbs ect have been changed? But floating or submerged plants was also a great suggestion. I would cut back to feeding every other day if possible. Increase the % you change when you do water changes, and add plants like pothos or floaters. Changing the purigen is def a good start.