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Old 04-11-2008, 11:03 PM   #389 (permalink)
Buck
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Originally Posted by scolley
PS - I'm running out of room for the discus to swim with all the stem plants growing. Soon I think I'll be able to demonstrate conclusively that having a tank full of healthy growing plants is not the solution to GDA. Sorry Buck. Sounded like a good idea though.
Steve if that aint gettin't done then I would tend to assume that you are way overdosing the micro's.
I was running into an algae fest like you are when I upped my micro dosing. In its place now I do smaller , more frequent water changes (maybe 10%) and it seems to be helping. I only do a 50% w/c every third week. I dose a minimal amount of micro's only if I am too busy to do the water change. I have been micro free for 3 weeks now and the plants havent suffered, only the algae. Im hoping this is a good trend for my tank.

Have you tried cutting way back on the micro's?
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