So after much neglect, due to school, and newborn, my tank has degraded. its full of algae, and my Riccia got so infested i chucked out almost all of it, except about a quarter size worth, which i shoved in hole in the log to grow out of
heres pic one, the roots of Alternanthera reineckii
my algae ingrained glass, which wont scrub off.
My piece of slate:
Pic of unknown plant known as #3.
and finally, my bogwood, notice theres the algae on it, and then the wierd thingy in the bottom middle, thats the stuff that i threw my riccia out for.
it is a 10 gallon tank, two cfl's for lighting with a tin foil lined hood, putting out 23 watts a bulb for a total of 4.6 watts a gallon. the lights are one 10 hours a day broken up with a siesta of 3 hours in the midday.
Fish load = 4 cardinal tetra's, 2 matured guppies, 1 juvenille guppies (smaller than the tetra's) and 3 peppered cories.
running an xp1 filter now, changed to it earlier today. before was a penguin with the wheel removed. Media right now is what it came with, the activated carbon baggy, mechanical and bio stars.
water changes are very infrequent, but have no issues with starting to do them more often now as i have more time. usually a 75% change once a month.
only ferts it gets is a minute amount of trace. not very often at all, maybe once a week at most.
fish are fed once every two days, food is consumed rather quickly, very little falls to waste.
I'll give chemistry in a while, i need to do the tests, been a while....
i removed my co2 ladder because it was so filled with hair algae, and i was being way too lazy to change the mixture, i may throw it back in tank. it was the hagen set up.
so im asking for help, i want to fix up this aquarium and get it stable. i dont mind dosing, but i'd prefer a much lighter dosing regime than most ei dosing suggests.
