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So my tap water has 0.25 phosphate and fertilizer has 0.14 phosphate which I'm light dosing with half the recommend dose of course fish food which I feed once a day and organic waste so has any one have used distilled water and reminerlize maybe with fertilizer and little bit of aquarium salt or...

I have my co2 turned on a hour before lights turn on and an hour before lights turn off but my co2 indicator turns green after 7hours of co2. I heard that the co2 indicator has a 2 hour delay im using the fluval one, that would mean for that means co2 has reached its green level for 3 hours only...

1ppm of phosphate 2ppn by Friday. 1ppn on Sunday 2ppm by next Sunday. I'm trying to control black beard algae I have amano shrimps and one baby Siamese algae eater which seems not to have any interest in it

Do small Siamese algae eater eat black beard algae or just the bigger ones,

Not sure what algae that is but I know that adult size amano shrimp would be good to eat most algae especially from plants. On rocks Nerite snail zebra ones are the best at eating most algae but better on rocks and much bigger leafed plants. Or just dose a little bit of hydrogen peroxide...

The aqua soil will produce ammonia the best way to use it is in your planted tank for a least 3 weeks before adding fish. If you have any fish I would remove aqua soil and place on another sized tank like yours with plants then migrate fish into new tank or just get rid of the aqua soil. Look...

0.5 nitrates 50 percent a week 1ppm then by Friday 2ppm. Could it be the cherry shrimps multiplying like roaches?

Whats the ph of your water? Co2 tank will explode if temperature on tank passes 89 degrees Fahrenheit make sure its steel or medal not plastic. Cold would not matter unless its minus 50 degrees co2 because less effective. Fertlizer I would use nilocG or all purpose fertilizer unless you want to...

No heavy dosing nor over feeding maybe its just so much shrimps multiplying thats causing the phosphates shrimp feces are tiny loads and breaks down easier but to much can be a problem I assume. Cherry shrimps by the way

Is there something I can use to reduce phosphate and not raise my ph level?

Rotala Vietnam, Yellow flame bacopa, HYGROPHILA LANCEA 'ARAGUAIA', Red and green ludwigia, Alternanthera reineckii, staurogyne repens, 3 Java ferns and 1 Anubis nana. I just saw the video towards the end where she spot treated green hair algae or greenspot and she recommended to get a maybe a...

I tackled the Greenspan algae but now here comes Black hair algae I noticed that my phosphates were high at 2ppm now I brought it back down. I have a 20 gallon tank with 10 juvenile phoenix rasbora, 10 ember tetras, 5 amano shrimps, 2 zebra nerite snails and around maybe 70 cherry shrimps. Co2...

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Thank you for responding. Airstone does cause the water to move around my tank at a slower flow which I'm ok with also filters cause gas exchange as well unless your using a canister filter. I belive the only difference between the airstone and filter is that the filter circulates the water more...

This is what works for me weakly 20 percent water change and aa ling as the ammonia is not higher then 2ppm if it is I would do a 50 percent water change even with ammonia in tap water one your ammonia goes down dont worry about the nitrates if its 5ppm your good if its to high what for them to...

HI guys I have a no power filter of any kind soley relying on plants and 2inch gravel with Carrib black substrate by the way the fish, shrimps and 2 nerite snails are healthy and happy I've had the tank like this for months just adding water however the co2 levels are low and the black substrate...

Thanks yea I had changed out some old gravel for new and the waste debris was all over the water and caused it to rise to 1ppm My nitrates has always been at1ppm but the reason why the phosphates went up was because I had changed out some old for new gravel I had waste debris all over the tank...

What could cause green spot algae besides too much light and high phosphates

It is causing problems 1. Green spot algae on plants. 2. Plants are stunted. I just did a small vacuum on just the top part of gravel added some more water then today I have 0.5 ppm phosphate thats now taking care of it looks like I may just need to feed once a day. I just vacuumed the gravel...