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Hello everybody,
I'm Alex, I live in Poland and I recently started my first 'serious' project: a 90x45x45cm tank.
Few tech details:
Plant list:
Fish & Shrimp list:
[*]15 Rasbora Espei
[*]1 Otto
[*]15 Red cherry baby shrimp
[*]5 Cardinia Japonica youngsters
The story so far:
I started mid February 2014 with the filter on and some driftwood hoping it will sink soon. After 2 weeks of floating i gave up and anchored it at the bottom, added the soil and for the next 2 weeks i changed >50% of water twice a week.
5th March i planted the above mentioned plants bought from Tropica.
At this point i only had on 1 channel (2 t5's) for 5 hours/day and CO2 1 bubble/sec.
On the 9th March i took these and i assumed it was a brown algae and i removed manually:
Meanwhile I increased the light to 6h daily (the lamp was 30cm on top of the water), both channels (4 tubes at 100%) and last night I took these after a water change:
At this point I assume i've got 2 types of algae:
I lowered the light to 10cm over the tank and is running for 5h at 100%.
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I am looking forward to your comments and help.
Thank you in advance.
Alex
I'm Alex, I live in Poland and I recently started my first 'serious' project: a 90x45x45cm tank.
Few tech details:
- Aquarium Volume: 180L
- Light: ATI SunPower Dimm 4x39w (3x POWERCHROME T-5 aquaflora & 1 x POWERCHROME midday) hangs 10cm on top of the aquarium.
- CO2 bottle 4L pressurized
- EHEIM 350T external filter
- Elos CO2000 Professional Pressure Regulator
- ADA Powersand + aqua soil Amazonia
- EI Ferts
Plant list:
- Eleocharis sp. 'mini'
- Ammania sp. 'Bonsai'
- Alternanthera reineckii 'Mini'
- Rotala rotundifolia green & red
- Didiplis
- 2xBlyxa japonica
Fish & Shrimp list:
[*]15 Rasbora Espei
[*]1 Otto
[*]15 Red cherry baby shrimp
[*]5 Cardinia Japonica youngsters
The story so far:
I started mid February 2014 with the filter on and some driftwood hoping it will sink soon. After 2 weeks of floating i gave up and anchored it at the bottom, added the soil and for the next 2 weeks i changed >50% of water twice a week.
5th March i planted the above mentioned plants bought from Tropica.
At this point i only had on 1 channel (2 t5's) for 5 hours/day and CO2 1 bubble/sec.








On the 9th March i took these and i assumed it was a brown algae and i removed manually:


Meanwhile I increased the light to 6h daily (the lamp was 30cm on top of the water), both channels (4 tubes at 100%) and last night I took these after a water change:





At this point I assume i've got 2 types of algae:
- Spirogyra - http://aquariumalgae.blogspot.ro/2007/06/blog-post.html
- Diatoms
I lowered the light to 10cm over the tank and is running for 5h at 100%.
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I am looking forward to your comments and help.
Thank you in advance.
Alex