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As the title asks. Now for a little back ground on the question from my perspective.
I've been battling the 55 for several months now and ready to tear it down and start over. But I wonder if this could be avoided with a little more elbow grease on my part in the first place...
I have had all types of algae in the last few months except for Staghorn and hair algae... BBA, GSA, GDA and the black sludge in the substrate (can't remember the acronym).
So I'm wondering if I cleaned house more often would the tank be in this situation. In clean house mean tearing out all the plants in a section of the tank (or the whole thing) and give the substrate a good vacuum then replant.
How often are you doing this for your tanks? Suggested keeping methods from our members here may help many in the future enjoy better over all tank health.
As always there are thousands of factors involved so I'm just trying to understand a basic rule of thumb of cleaning that has worked for you.
I've been battling the 55 for several months now and ready to tear it down and start over. But I wonder if this could be avoided with a little more elbow grease on my part in the first place...
I have had all types of algae in the last few months except for Staghorn and hair algae... BBA, GSA, GDA and the black sludge in the substrate (can't remember the acronym).
So I'm wondering if I cleaned house more often would the tank be in this situation. In clean house mean tearing out all the plants in a section of the tank (or the whole thing) and give the substrate a good vacuum then replant.
How often are you doing this for your tanks? Suggested keeping methods from our members here may help many in the future enjoy better over all tank health.
As always there are thousands of factors involved so I'm just trying to understand a basic rule of thumb of cleaning that has worked for you.