I've got a 13g low-light tank (15w of T8) and I'm not sure where to go from here. The contents and inhabitants were previously in a 5g but were all moved a week ago. I had a lot of green algae on the glass of the old tank, as well as hair algae and BBA. I did my best to remove as much of it as I could before putting things into the 13g.
I have an amazon sword, anubias nana, lace java fern, flame, java, stringy, giant, subwassertang, monosolenium tenerum, and unidentified moss, second-hand driftwood with BBA and hair algae on it, five kinds of dwarf shrimp, five tiger endlers and three otos right now. I will be adding Christmas and Taiwan moss soon. The lace java fern has a lot of brown on the leaves, and some are even eaten through like you'd see on a leaf a caterpillar ate. The mosses do fairly well, but there was a lot of green hair-like algae in the flame moss.
I used to dose 0.5ml of Flourish Comprehensive every three or four days, but I now dose 0.625ml every other day and I have a Flourish fert tab under the sword.
I'm wondering if I should add Excel to my regimen to work against the algae? Or I'm also open to DIY CO2 if that would work better. I'm looking into EI with my 37g and 75g, so could I do that here as well? Should I stay with the every other day dosing of the Comprehensive? Should I do something else?
-Lisa
I have an amazon sword, anubias nana, lace java fern, flame, java, stringy, giant, subwassertang, monosolenium tenerum, and unidentified moss, second-hand driftwood with BBA and hair algae on it, five kinds of dwarf shrimp, five tiger endlers and three otos right now. I will be adding Christmas and Taiwan moss soon. The lace java fern has a lot of brown on the leaves, and some are even eaten through like you'd see on a leaf a caterpillar ate. The mosses do fairly well, but there was a lot of green hair-like algae in the flame moss.
I used to dose 0.5ml of Flourish Comprehensive every three or four days, but I now dose 0.625ml every other day and I have a Flourish fert tab under the sword.
I'm wondering if I should add Excel to my regimen to work against the algae? Or I'm also open to DIY CO2 if that would work better. I'm looking into EI with my 37g and 75g, so could I do that here as well? Should I stay with the every other day dosing of the Comprehensive? Should I do something else?
-Lisa