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Snails are doing a great job at keeping rocks clean. Stag horn in my experience is caused by excess of micro fertilizer, especially Iron. Try to reduce your micros a little and see how it goes.
Five different algaes in fairly new tank
Hi,
My name is Sam, and I am new to the hobby. My tank has been running for about three months now. I am posting here for help, because a lot of information is available on how to fight / prevent algae, but I have at least five different ones in my tank right now and I was wondering if I have maybe missed something essential or made a big mistake.
So rather than starting to fight the algae’s one by one, I was wondering if you guys could have a look at my setup, water values, livestock, ferts, ... to check if something is obviously wrong.
I have tried to be as thorough as possible with the information. Here we go:
Algae
Brown algae
Noticeably less after bringing up lights to 8 hours. Dare I say ‘under control’
Blue (cyano)
Plenty. Reappears aggressively after manual cleaning.
Staghorn
On wood, plant leaves, rapidly spreading
Black beard
Started small, now visible in several spots
Green thread algae
Forms 10cm threads in a week time
Some sort of white threads
Growing on the underside of wood
Pictures below.
Tech
Aquarium: Oase Styleline 125
Total volume 115l
Minus hardscape +- 70l
Light: 2*Oase HighLine Classic LED Daylight 12W / 1300 lm (came with the tank)
Filter: Oase Filtosmart 200
Co2 system: Pressurized set with inline diffuser, drop checker, …
On 2h before light / off together with light
Hardscape
Seiryu rock 20kg
Driftwood
Some slate stones and pebbles
Amazonia 18l
ADA Colorado sand
Water
Volume:
Changes:
Water values (after 2 weeks no water change):
Livestock & food
Tetramin Granules (daily)
HS Red Power Granules (daily)
Frozen bloodworm (2-3 times/week)
5 neontetra
5 red guppies
10 Chrystal Red Shrimp (tough ones, supposably bred in tap water – doing fine)
3 Sterbai Corydoras
1 Kuhli Loach
Plants & ferts
Planted Box All in One (25ml/week – as recommended)
Easycarbo (2ml/day – as recommended)
Eleocharis parvula mini (Surviving)
Sagittaria subulate (Most died off, some surviving)
Vallisneria nana (Not doing great, made the mistake off trimming tops before planting)
Vesicularia dubyana 'Christmas' (Surviving)
Anubias barteri var. Nana (Slowly showing new leaf growth)
Marsilea hirsute (Most died off, some surviving)
Micranthemum umbrosum (Growing fast)
Hygrophila salicifolia narrow leaf (Died off)
Lysimachia aurea (Growing nicely - older leaves covered in brown algae)
Limnophila mini Vietnam (Growing nicely - older leaves covered in brown algae)
Ludwigia repens 'Rubin' (Growing fast, replanting tops every week)
Pictures
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After cleaning
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My name is Sam, and I am new to the hobby. My tank has been running for about three months now. I am posting here for help, because a lot of information is available on how to fight / prevent algae, but I have at least five different ones in my tank right now and I was wondering if I have maybe missed something essential or made a big mistake.
So rather than starting to fight the algae’s one by one, I was wondering if you guys could have a look at my setup, water values, livestock, ferts, ... to check if something is obviously wrong.
I have tried to be as thorough as possible with the information. Here we go:
Algae
Brown algae
Noticeably less after bringing up lights to 8 hours. Dare I say ‘under control’
Blue (cyano)
Plenty. Reappears aggressively after manual cleaning.
Staghorn
On wood, plant leaves, rapidly spreading
Black beard
Started small, now visible in several spots
Green thread algae
Forms 10cm threads in a week time
Some sort of white threads
Growing on the underside of wood
Pictures below.
Tech
Aquarium: Oase Styleline 125
Total volume 115l
Minus hardscape +- 70l
Light: 2*Oase HighLine Classic LED Daylight 12W / 1300 lm (came with the tank)
8h/day (morning – early afternoon)
About 27lm/l
Only a bit of natural light (3 meters opposite a window facing east)
About 27lm/l
Only a bit of natural light (3 meters opposite a window facing east)
Filter: Oase Filtosmart 200
- 800l/h
- 2l Seachem Matrix + Oase included biomedia
- Seachem Purigen 200ml
- No active carbon
- Original Oase in/outlet
- 2l Seachem Matrix + Oase included biomedia
- Seachem Purigen 200ml
- No active carbon
- Original Oase in/outlet
Hardscape
Seiryu rock 20kg
Driftwood
Some slate stones and pebbles
Amazonia 18l
ADA Colorado sand
Water
Volume:
About 70l (estimate: 115l total minus hardscape)Changes:
Once a week – 60/70% - osmose (remineralized to about 200 TDS)Water values (after 2 weeks no water change):
- PH: 7 (or a bit lower)
- KH: 6 – 7
- GH: 12 – 13
- NH3: 0 mg/l
- NO2: 0 mg/l
- NO3: 20-40 mg/l
- PO4: 0,1 – 0,3 mg/l
- KH: 6 – 7
- GH: 12 – 13
- NH3: 0 mg/l
- NO2: 0 mg/l
- NO3: 20-40 mg/l
- PO4: 0,1 – 0,3 mg/l
Livestock & food
Tetramin Granules (daily)
HS Red Power Granules (daily)
Frozen bloodworm (2-3 times/week)
5 neontetra
5 red guppies
10 Chrystal Red Shrimp (tough ones, supposably bred in tap water – doing fine)
3 Sterbai Corydoras
1 Kuhli Loach
Plants & ferts
Planted Box All in One (25ml/week – as recommended)
Should give:
• 0.5ppm iron
• 15ppm nitrate
• 1.5ppm phosphate
• 0.5ppm iron
• 15ppm nitrate
• 1.5ppm phosphate
Easycarbo (2ml/day – as recommended)
Eleocharis parvula mini (Surviving)
Sagittaria subulate (Most died off, some surviving)
Vallisneria nana (Not doing great, made the mistake off trimming tops before planting)
Vesicularia dubyana 'Christmas' (Surviving)
Anubias barteri var. Nana (Slowly showing new leaf growth)
Marsilea hirsute (Most died off, some surviving)
Micranthemum umbrosum (Growing fast)
Hygrophila salicifolia narrow leaf (Died off)
Lysimachia aurea (Growing nicely - older leaves covered in brown algae)
Limnophila mini Vietnam (Growing nicely - older leaves covered in brown algae)
Ludwigia repens 'Rubin' (Growing fast, replanting tops every week)
Pictures
After cleaning
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