Munkii Posted November 17, 2012 Report Share Posted November 17, 2012 Hi Everyone The glosso and hair grass in my small tank is growing steadily, but not super fast. Have increased the ferts dosing up to the values recommended on the bottles (was using a half dose before). Other changes this week: Removed stock hood Added two 9w lights (18w on a 5g tank) Added Aquaclear 200 filter Added 50w heater set to 20 deg Added two smaller rocks I sold a bunch of the Twisted Val from my main tank so I moved things around a bit. This tank had a tendency to get green water, so in the last two weeks I have been dosing ferts in an effort to stop this. This has made the twisted val grow a lot, but the algae has increased also Since dosing ferts in this tank the gradual tend to towards green water seems to be about the same, but the green spot algae on the glass has been growing a lot more. I am hoping some of you guys can give me some suggestions as to what I should try next. Some of my ideas are: Keep curtains shut during the day (tank is not in direct light, but the room does get a lot of sun light) Reduce the lighting (currently on 9h per day). The problem with going less is that I like to have the light on in the morning when I feed them and also in the evening when I am relaxing Increase fert dosing. It's a 35g tank, and I have been dosing 5mL of Excel each weekend and 1mL of Flourish comprehensive daily Get a bigger variety of plants (currently it's almost all twisted val only) Do bigger water changes. I normally do a 15% change each week, so maybe ferts are building up each week? What do you experts recon? :smln: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilwis Posted November 18, 2012 Report Share Posted November 18, 2012 just a question are you trying to grow plants? because your conditions seem quite perfect for plants and after all green algae is a plant so what ever you put in to help your plants will help the algae grow too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsmith Posted November 18, 2012 Report Share Posted November 18, 2012 I would be shutting the curtains as a starting point. There are few tanks that are happy with more than about 8-10 hours of lighting a day. 6 is probably a good place to reduce it to. Maybe you could turn the lights on when you get home and feed them in the evening, that way you get to enjoy them? I would consider doing larger water changes too. I usually do a 50% change every week in my tank, and I don't even have any bioload other than snails in it right now. I think my approach would be to reduce the lighting to 4 or 6 hours for a week or so, and do a few, big water changes. You might find that clears everything up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munkii Posted November 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2012 I think my approach would be to reduce the lighting to 4 or 6 hours for a week or so, and do a few, big water changes. You might find that clears everything up. Sounds like a good idea. I'll try this, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmsmith Posted November 20, 2012 Report Share Posted November 20, 2012 Take pics of it every day so you can see the changes over time. If you're anything like me, I'm CONVINCED nothing's changing, then suddenly I'm like 'oh, that's a pretty tank some aliens dropped into my house!' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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