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Yes, reason for the short light time was to try to kill the algae. No reason for the morning light other to see my tank before I go to work in the morning. I will remove it and keep the lights off for the next week. Would you recommend that I wrap the tank with a blanket or something to keep natural light out?
I have to do a water change this weekend and I have new media filters to change out so maybe that will help my levels.
I have a set up to hold 20 gallons of water for 5 days and I treat it with Fritz complete to remove ammonia etc from my tap water. I have pump to pump it out into my tank and out of my tank which is great and makes water changes a breeze.
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On 5/20/2023 at 10:34 PM, nabokovfan87 said:
Welcome to the forums! Hopefully we can help out in some way to get things on the right track. I feel your struggle as it's something I've dealt with for far too long as well.
Please post a screenshot of your light settings.
How much during each dose? What level are your nitrates at for the tank in question. From the pictures above it looks like the algae is mostly centered on the wood. I don't see much on the plants, but perhaps it is there in spots?
You may need a lot more amano than you're thinking. The state the algae is in right now I would expect them to go ahead and go after it. The only real technique to get them to go after the algae is to keep them hungry. I would also suggest checking on the tank at night under blue lights. They may only be really active at night for exposed and bright spots. Given the tank size I would also go in search of True SAE for the tank. They will help as well.
Below are two techniques I used. I would encourage using the Jurijs method for the wood as it's a very large area to spot treat. Pull the wood and rocks into a tote and see how it goes. Hardscape can be difficult to deal with.
I would suggest blacking out the tank for 7 days and doing a water change of 30-50% following each day of blackout. BBA sends out spores and you need to perform those water changes in order to remove them. This is advice from Bentley via one of his live streams. During and following the blackout you'd want to do the spot treatment method in order to treat algae on any of the plant leaves or pull the plants and dip them.
In my case I had to handle cleaning, excess phosphates, excess lights, and a long list of methods to get things under control. Your tank has a good plant load, but that piece of wood is directly under the strongest part of the light. The algae will almost always want to grow there. A method to alleviate that might be to raise the light up higher using risers or by mounting the light in some way.I have one Otocinclus Catfish also but he doesn't touch that algae. I've actually rescheduled the first video but I will need to watch Bentley's for sure.
in doing the balck out for 7 days I would if affect the fish and shrimp? I've worked hard to get these mommy's to bear eggs for me and right now it's a shrimp baby factory in my tank so of course I don't want to jeopardize anything with them.
I've also already took a bunch of plant's out because it was spreading. And yes ita on my other taller plants. I'm currently thinking about taking more java fern out because its just everywhere within it. And my shrimp love to be in it so ive been holding out to do it.
I will also look into raising the lights i did put them on about an 1" block but i waant sure ofbit was enough height.
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Yes, of course
On 5/21/2023 at 6:18 PM, nabokovfan87 said:Can you show the screen with the line graphs by chance? There's a lot of changes and I'm trying to get an idea for how the white channel looks.
On 5/20/2023 at 8:51 PM, Galabar said:Are you routinely testing your water (and what do your parameters look like)? Are you doing water changes?
There is a simple, proven method to remove algae:
However, you'll want to get on top of where it came from.
Yes, every two weeks I do about a 30%.
Gh 60
Kh 120
Ph 7.5
N03 little high 80 I'm treating for that currently to bring it down.
N02 0.5
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On 5/20/2023 at 9:35 PM, lefty o said:
how many hours a day is the light on for?
An hour in the morning then 6 hours starting at 330 pm to 9 pm
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Hello fellow hobbyists,
I'm reaching out because my white flight is waving! 🏳 I have a 60 gallan breeder that has had black beard algae for the last 3 to 4 months and I can't get rid of it. I've tried hydrogen peroxide treatment, changing my lighting times and intensity, pulling out plants, clupping off pieces of my driftwood and NOTHING has worked.
Tank has been up and going since August 22.
*I use fluval light on a auto setting from another member "Bentley".
*I use EZ green twice a week
*I do 30% water change ebwry 2 weeks and have a canister filter Fluval #307
* I bought the filter about 2 months ago thinking more filtration would help.
*I also treat with Leaf zone once a month
*was using florish excel daily to see if that would kill it but no luck so far.
*bought amino shrimp and they really don't go after it.
I have all community friendly fish, a nirate snail and ramshorns. I also have cherry and skittle shrimp with lots of babies!! Also have baby fish here and there.
Any help with that I'm doing wrong or need to try I'm all ears! I'm sick of that algae.
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On 3/1/2023 at 2:17 AM, Cinnebuns said:
Oh wow! I feel I just watched the worst horror movie ever because it's real!!
After watching that video I can say this is not what I have in my tank. What I have looks more like a earth worn just smaller. I torn the tank completely down got all new and I'll be darned if they found their butts back in there. So my 10 gallon is going have them in there I guess. My 60 gallan doesn't have them but does have BLACK BEARD ALGEY....I just can't win.🥹😥😭
On 3/1/2023 at 2:17 AM, Cinnebuns said:Oh wow! I feel I just watched the worst horror movie ever because it's real!!
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I just bought the traps so we will see I get them this Wednesday. I took everything out of my tank so hopefully nothing transfer over I was setting up a new 60- gallon breeder. OMG!!! I'm gonna take it totally down and clean need to read up on what I can use. What a mess.
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Oh it did!! I bought a trap for them so we will see what happens. I think with me moving things around and cleaning the soil good like I was it messed up their happy life because I've never seen them in there. They must have stayed in the thick spol. Creeps me out!!
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I caught one and put it outside in the trash it was stuck to my tukey baster than the cup. OMG I'm freaking out!!!! 😮🙁😢
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Here are a couple more pics he came back out but he's quick.
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I was moving some plants around in my 10 gallon planted cherry shrimp tank and this worm just came right out and scared the crap out of me. He's about a inch long I caught him with my tongs and he was slithering like a snake! I have little tiny tiny white ones but this is the first one I've seen that that dang big!
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Thank you everyone I love this group so helpful it makes this journey fun! ❤️
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Wow everyone thank you I was hoping it would be that easy. I'm going to take your advice and do more research but I'm very much leaning towards this direction. 😁
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Hello all,
This is a question for the experts out there. I just bought a 60- gallon breeder and wanted to know if it's wise to use tap water for set up sicne it's such a large amount of water. I have a water filtration on my kitchen sink to remove lead etc Watts pure H20. Would this be more of a pain in the butt in the long run? I did a test and my and this was the results.
GH is 30 ppm
Kh 240 ppm
PH 7.5 or 8
NO 2 -.05 ppm
NO3 -20 ppm
Again this is just out of the tap in my kitchen that has the filtration system.
Any advice would be very much appreciated!
-Cathy
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On 1/2/2023 at 7:17 PM, Patrick_G said:
Nice looking tank, brown algae is totally normal for a newish aquarium. It should go away with time but manual removal will help things along. It looks like you have a very long lighting period. Even though it’s low intensity I feel like you’ve giving your tank a bit to much light. Your plants generally look good so I’d probably start by cutting a few hours from the lighting period. There is a thread on the forum for programming the Fluval 3.0, you might get some good tips there.
Thanks I've worked hard on my tank lost a couple of plant's along the way unfortunately so I was told to try this light but its pretty intimidating I don't want to fry anything with the light power or have it to low that things die. I read the forum and there are lots of good information in it. I'm gonna try one of the lights examples tonight and see what happens in the next couple of weeks. I love the comments to keep a plant light journal its a great idea.
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Can someone give me advice if this is brown algae and if so how do I kill it? I have a 10 gallan tank with a fluval 3.0 see settings in pic. I have a sponge filter also. I've been adding easy green two days a week and CO2 everyday for my tank size. I've had it up and running about 4 months. Should my light be brighter? I've read so much and everyone says something different or the info is for a bigger tank. I have red cherry shrimp some neon tetras and some guppies and live plants so I don't want to kill anything but the brown ugly stuff.
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I just received this light and saw it has a auto settings and lots more. I did some research videos and saw you should start the light low at first and go up to 75 for whites, and low blue, and about 50 for pink after a 4 week period. My tank has been up since September of this year and I do have lots of plant's in it. In order to not to burn anything that is growing higher in the tank and still get the light I need what setting should I go with for my 10 gallas tank? I treat my tank with CO2 eveyday and put in easy green twice a week. I also have cherry shrimp and a couple of fish and 2 snails. I had posted questions about my tank and with the help of some I was able to plant some plants correct and was told this light is the best.
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Thank you to all that helped me! I've bought the plant light that was recommended I will be that next week. I also attached or hooked for now until I get super glue my 4 plants and I've almost killed because I have very little experience with it comes to a planted tank. Hopefully everything begins to grow in the next couple of weeks from all of your suggestions.
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Your tank is gorgeous!!
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I'm new at keeping Shrimp I currently have cherry shrimp and my question is can you have different colors of shrimp in the same tank or no?
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I was wondering that too but there was no direction on how to plant it when I bought it from the pet store. I will be able to get them attached to my driftwood asap thank you for catching that. Also I will look into the light. I was thinking about taking the hood light off when I originally purchase it and getting a better light but I didn't know if my shrimps would try to escape lol. After watching them for the last couple of months they don't ever go out of the water that I have seen. They will go right up to the tip of my drift wood at the waters edge and that's all. Thank you for everything for everything! I've already have learned so joining this forum. 💛
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Thank you I was actually thinking the same thing bc my other pants ate doing pretty good. But I'm a beginner at this planted tank thing so any suggestions are totally helpful. Maybe I will try another type of plant and see what happens I really love the clover look though dang it. Here are the lights I have 4 of the 6" and the hood light which are weak.
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I just bought easy iron and a potassium supplement so o hope this will help. Thank you both for you help and suggestions. 😁❤🐠☘️
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Wow thank you for the information I will look further into the nutrients issue.
Black beard algae....😭
in Plants, Algae, and Fertilizers
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Sorry, I have replacent pads and ammonia remover bags, zeo- carb bags and clean the media out of my canister.
Thank you for all your advice. After I do my water change I'm going to black it out for 7 days and pray. 😆 🤣 😂 but for real!