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  1. I turned the blue lights off that were on at night and started in the morning about 2 days ago. So we will wait and see now. Thanks!
  2. Thanks Fishythoughts - I tried snails, as I said before, they just die.. The last tank I showed I am breeding guppies in, you cant see any because they move to fast. I dont know what is going on either - but I think its a lighting issue, I just dont know how to adjust it - I have tried many times. Maybe I will cut some of the blue out and wait a few weeks and see if it subsides.
  3. I want to add - my other tank got brown algae for about a month - I did close to nothing. its gone now. I do the same thing but with a different style light. I attached a pic. I dont know if it will help - Im just at a loss
  4. If you didnt read a response I sent to someone else, I tried snails. I cant keep them alive in that tank for over 3 weeks. Not sure why.. but they just don't live. I may try again - its been well over a year. I dont make major changes - if I make any changes I do one at a time, I also journal it all. So, I am not necessarily a newby at this, I just cant understand why I cant get rid of this brown algae.
  5. The reason I was leaning towards lighting in when I originally posted, is when I used the stock T5 that came with the kit, everything was fine, for several months - and I did it all manually. When I got the finnex 24/7 planted+ within a couple months it started. I did not do anything different, but change the light. Now I have been manually cleaning it every week for probably close to 18 months. I do know how to control the nitrates, but there are so many plants in there (there is over 50 floating water sprite) that I let the nitrates go as a test to see if the plants would just uptake it and let it resolve itself over time. Not the case though. I expiremented with adding extra fertalizer, as I saw that in one of cory's videos but within 2 weeks it was out of control and took me several hours to clean it, so I dialed it back again. I know it wont hurt my fish, but if it stays on the sprite and java fern too long, it starts to die back because it isnt getting light. So as of now, I spend about an hour and a half every weekend manually cleaning it off. I just cant see doing it long term. I have another tank too and just got a 3rd, so I would like to spend time with other fish and setups vs cleaning algae. I know its growing, all that sprite came from one plant originally. I planted out a 2nd tank and 3 of my friends tanks with it already as well and I remove a handful a week. I'm not sure if any of that helps more - but its becoming time consuming and I would like to expand the hobby, not just focus all my time on one tank. -Steve
  6. I am using ecocomplete. I did get my nitrates down with extra gravel vaccing over the last two weeks. I am using blue light in my lighting all throught out the day and ending in blue. Should I cut it out or lower it?
  7. Hey test.tin, I use fertilizers, I just am trying to stay away from chemically treating my water if I don't. Since your suggestions I have done more gravel vacuuming and slightly higher water change, I am just pinching off the hose so I am doing more gravel. I tested today about 20ppm 2 weeks in a row, so today I added a few squirts of easy green. For some reason, I cannot keep nerites alive in my tank - longest was 3 weeks. Couldnt figure out why, I could try again I suppose because that was over a year ago now. Thanks!
  8. Thanks, I understand what you were saying, I was hoping there was a way to do it more naturally. Should I just gravel vac 3x per week or more until I see it drop? Is the nitrates really too high, or is it the wrong kind? My guess is overfeeding is killing me, I have 4 corydoras, 2 pleco, 1 pictus and an angel fish. I water test every Saturday and change water on Sunday. I have been feeding shrimp pellets because that has seemed to be the biggest hit amongst all of the fish. Is there something better I can feed where I can control it better? I have to do a lot of target feeding. thanks again!
  9. Hi test.tin, I change water (25-30%) and clean algae/trim plants every Sunday. One of Cory's suggestion was to add fertilizer to add the additional nutrients, which I tried. I saw no difference with the nitrates. Tank ranges from 75-77 depending on how high I keep my heat or how cold it is outside. Here is a pic to compare after I did plant maintenance and did a water change today. I know it may be hard to tell via the pics, but it is a significant difference. I would need to take close ups before and after. -Steve
  10. Thanks Colu, I am trying to find the balance, because I remove it manually every week and I get most of it. I think it is probably on everything at this point, so I am trying to find a way to find the balance. My light is currently around 8 hours and ends in a low blue light for a couple more. I have it ramping up and ramping down for a 10-12 hour period of time.
  11. Hi Everyone, I know I have met some of you in either the chat or youtube, but if not, my name is Steve and I live in northeastern CT with my girlfriend and our two bull terriers. I kept fish when I was a kid but recently got back into about two years ago now. I started with a 39 gallon and decided to plant it. Its a fairly basic community tank with couple pleco and cory cats, along with an angel fish. About a year ago I set up a 10 gallon tank for my girlfriend because she wanted shrimp. I battled that for about 8 months and I did ultimately figure out the problem of why they kept dying, but i had to totally strip down the tank to do it. Now I am breeding guppies in that tank. I did plant that one as well from propagations from the 39 gallon. I am still fairly new and I always have questions, but I also do plenty of research as well. It took me so long to join the forum though because we also do a nice size garden and that has pretty much come to an end, so I figured I would join the fun! Attached are a couple pictures of how I started my planted tank and what it ended up becoming. Looking forward to talking with you, Steve
  12. Hello Everyone, I have been fighting brown algae for close to a year and a half and no real sign of it stopping. I have watched all the videos I could that Cory has posted on this and have tried everything. I know its some sort of balance I am missing but I am unsure now which direction to go, as all I seem to be doing is making changes every few weeks. I am using a Finnex 24/7 planted+ on a 39 gallon. My nitrates usually stay around 40/80 whether I add fertilizers or not. I have not fertilized in well over a month and still keeping a consistent reading. It is primarily on my sprites but it does go to other plants too. I clean off as much as I can every week. At this point I think I have 2 issues: #1 - over feeding and #2 I am thinking needs to be a light adjustment, but I don't know if I need to increase or decrease as I have done both (but maybe not enough). Should I start with an increase, or a decrease? Let me know what other information you would need to provide suggestions. Thanks, Steve
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