I havent had algae on the plants and glass since i started using this product, it dont work if your tank have algae already, it just prevent the tank to have more algae.
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So it won't get rid of old but will prevent more from growing? I guess I could try one. I just watchef the video of Joeys build of one again.
Congrats on the new tank. We are still waiting your tank and poly thread
Most of the CL tanks here are quite overpriced . Guess people don’t think the stuff depreciates. There are occasional deals though. So I’m still keeping my eyes peeled. although I might have to wait until I know where I am going to Grad school first. Thanks for keeping an eye out and good use of the word “peruse.”
Glad my polys aren’t the only ones that bonk into the heater.
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Thanks. I’m in no rush to upgrade, but would like to soon. Just have to complete all my stuff for grad school. But at the latest, the upgrade will be a year from now. Did you keep any pets when you were in grad school?
I think I might have purchased crypt Wendii, but it disintegrated along with the anubias nana. Even though crypts are pretty hardy....when they arrived to me they looked rotted and mushy....so I might have threw them away before they got in the tank.
i do like the water lettuce quite a bit. Will look into penny’s wort.
Yeah I thought it was high too.Will post all the nitrates and feedings in the next post!
Thanks! Glad to see you back on the forum. Love your mini planted tanks. They look outstanding.
Please keep us posted. Java ferns are sweet, but I do really like algae guru’s mix of plants. What are 2 24/7s? It’s totally okay to give up on the African biome. Your tank looks awesome as is....and you might as we’ll get the fish/plants you want!People tell me to add more plants that will help them fight back the algae but seems like the algae grows faster then the plants. I had a 60g that was pretty heavily planted and it still had some algae issues. When I started c02 it went away. But that opens another can of worms. I don't want to dose anything. A guy at the lfs has plants alot of plants in a tank with some of the eels tiretrack,fire something else and a few others it's a 125. He used pfs, no dosing no ferts except root tabs for his swords 1x month, he has vals, crypts, and a bunch of bucephalandria which is really cool like anubias nana but some flower! He has 0 algae issues. He runs a fx6 that's it. For lights it's 2 24/7s. Feeds frozen mysis, blackworms, and spectrum pellets. His nitrates are always around 10ppm weekly w/c of 50%. He says it's all about your mix of plants. You need fast growing ones to out compete the algae like the val, and slower growing ones because they are the cool looking ones usually. So I don't know. I've been fighting the same fight you have, i haven't lost to many plants other then the time when my barbs ate all of them...... right before they started eating everything was when in the 75 I started winning the fight over the algae. The trident fern was really growing hardcore and I think it was out competing the algae. Some of the saved shreds of that came to the 180 but hasn't done well. A couple weeks ago I got some java ferns a handful of different ones from a lfs for something like 3/$10. I've also given up on keeping this as close to an African biotope as possible and added some swords. The geos are not African anyway. Lol Java ferns grow fast at least they are supposed to and are supposed to be nearly indestructible. My val was wispy and seemed really fragile it didn'y look good so it's gone. Any way after this supper long post I've taken some of 125 guys advice and see if I can out plant the algae.
Very interesting. I’ll look into it. CO2 kinda wigs me out because it can stress the fish out. Although, I’m sure it’s easy to maintain.
thank you! They are definitely a fun bunch.
Crypts can go through a thing they call crypt melt. Sometimes they can rebound sometimes not. Sounds like what happened. I've got some fighting back from it now.
2 24/7s are finnex led lights. 24/7planted+ pretty nice lights but not super high end or super high priced.
