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Hi all Curious if anyone has any technical info on the lights on modern AquaStyle tanks, beyond "energy efficient 16w LED lighting". I find it a little concerning that AquaOne don't publish the lumen output etc of the system. I'm particularly after the AquaStyle 620 lighting info. By best guestimates I'm thinking the lumens are around 1100. I've just ordered a 12w submersible led strip (aliexpress) which is also rated at 1100 lumens or thereabouts, which I'm hoping will turn the lighting from just scraping by to low-moderate.at least the rear of the tank will get better light. -
Hopefully, as the plants grow, they will out-compete the hair algae and it will disappear as the tank matures since all your parameters seem OK. It particularly likes slow growing, wide leaved plants like Java fern and Anubias. Perhaps adding more fast growing plants might help, like more wisteria. I used to plant some and leave the rest floating. I don't remember reduced lighting having much effect when it came to limiting hair algae. -
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Hi all After advice on best approach to take. New planted tank, green hair algae starting to take hold and I want to nip it in the bud before it gets to be a problem. Tank is an AquaStyle 620, it's now fully stocked, when it was set up I used seeded media from the LFS and have monitored the water quality pretty exhaustively - I work at a lab so am able to throw in the occasional test for more random things. Early on had two tiny (<0.5 ppm) ammonia blips, never seen nitrite, and nitrate sits around 1-2 ppm. Phosphate is pretty much non existant at 0.07 ppm (lab test). Total nitrogen (NH4, NO2, NO3 and organic nitrogen - another lab test) is currently 1.9 ppm. I'm using stock LED lighting, which I know isn't super powerful, and was just using the built in trickle filter, which admittedly is working very well, but I have since added a small 5V usb powerhead to add an extra 200lph of flow to the tank. I have a few Anubias, a marbled leaved sword, a big clump of java moss, several small java ferns, several crypts, and then a reasonable amount of water wisteria and willow leaved hygrophila. Everything is growing, which I'm surprised at as I thought the lighting wouldn't be powerful enough. My thoughts on the algae are that I need more phosphate/nutrients in the tank as the plants are limited, or cut photo period (I did have them on at 0630 off at 1000, on again at 1500 and off at 2100) - I'm just concerned dropping the photoperiod will impact the plants? Any ideas?
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