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It’s been long time since i posted something here and the reason for that some great members of this forum who helped me to create a perfect and stable tank but now i need some help to do this one more time. So here is the story:
I always wanted a high tech planted tank but after some research and looking at the costs of the equipment i realized that it will be very expensive to turn my 30 gallon tank in to a high tech planted tank and besides I should removed all the residents of the tank since the early stages of a planted tank the water is very unstable. I had a spare 9 gallon tank so I decided to turn this tank to a high tech planted tank. In the past 8 months I bought special light,tropica substrate, a small filter but strong enough and set up a hand made CO2 system. 15 days ago I prepared the tank and bought these plants: monte carlo grass, ludwigia, hair grass, hydrocotyle, rotala bonsai, pogostemon stellatus sp octopus, Phoenix moss and weeping moss. I also bought 2 rocks and a big driftwood. I planted the plants and made a simple acquascape(or try to) and filled the tank. Here is a photo:
At first some problems acquired like the driftwood wasn’t heavy enough(i put a big rock on it) or I accidentally broke my defuser( i replace it with that ugly plastic cup) but all those problems took care of. After 2 weeks lots of changes happened. The good news is that all of my plants except hair grass are showing new growing some of them like ludwigia are fast others like Monte Carlo are slow and although my hair grass is not growing but there are no signs of melting. But despite that plants adjusted quickly there are numbers of troubles too. The biggest one is brown algae which i know it is common for new tanks. Reading the problems which cause this algae im suspecting that it is my nitrite. Ammonia readings gone very quickly but my first number of nitrite was 10ppm( don’t worry I didn’t put any fish in there) this number decreased to 7ppm after couple of days and stayed there then it dropped to 3ppm and was stabled for one week and tonight when I checked it was almost disappeared but this brown algae still existed and it is bothering me too much since it’s covered my hair grass and my rotala bonsai stems also it is covering my driftwood too.What is the best way to get rid of this?? I kept some pest snails(bladder I guess) to clean this but they are slow. The second problem is happened after my nitrite starts to go down there are number of creatures in my tank. I know one of them are Diatom worms they are on my glass but their number aren’t high and i have no idea why they are on glass not substrate I don’t drop any food in this tank any ideas?? I know the second guest as well and I just noticed them today. I spotted several hydras sticking themselves to my pogostemon how can i get rid of these guys I only knew that gourami like to eat them but i have no mind to add one. The third one is something that I don’t know and im suspected that hydras are using them as food they are very small so I cannot take their pictures their color is white and they are roundish and can see they have very tiny legs/antennae too they are swimming /walking on my glass like insect but i can see them on my wood and floating in the water any ideas about them??
Im very sorry that i made this long but I wanted too explain everything
It’s been long time since i posted something here and the reason for that some great members of this forum who helped me to create a perfect and stable tank but now i need some help to do this one more time. So here is the story:
I always wanted a high tech planted tank but after some research and looking at the costs of the equipment i realized that it will be very expensive to turn my 30 gallon tank in to a high tech planted tank and besides I should removed all the residents of the tank since the early stages of a planted tank the water is very unstable. I had a spare 9 gallon tank so I decided to turn this tank to a high tech planted tank. In the past 8 months I bought special light,tropica substrate, a small filter but strong enough and set up a hand made CO2 system. 15 days ago I prepared the tank and bought these plants: monte carlo grass, ludwigia, hair grass, hydrocotyle, rotala bonsai, pogostemon stellatus sp octopus, Phoenix moss and weeping moss. I also bought 2 rocks and a big driftwood. I planted the plants and made a simple acquascape(or try to) and filled the tank. Here is a photo:
At first some problems acquired like the driftwood wasn’t heavy enough(i put a big rock on it) or I accidentally broke my defuser( i replace it with that ugly plastic cup) but all those problems took care of. After 2 weeks lots of changes happened. The good news is that all of my plants except hair grass are showing new growing some of them like ludwigia are fast others like Monte Carlo are slow and although my hair grass is not growing but there are no signs of melting. But despite that plants adjusted quickly there are numbers of troubles too. The biggest one is brown algae which i know it is common for new tanks. Reading the problems which cause this algae im suspecting that it is my nitrite. Ammonia readings gone very quickly but my first number of nitrite was 10ppm( don’t worry I didn’t put any fish in there) this number decreased to 7ppm after couple of days and stayed there then it dropped to 3ppm and was stabled for one week and tonight when I checked it was almost disappeared but this brown algae still existed and it is bothering me too much since it’s covered my hair grass and my rotala bonsai stems also it is covering my driftwood too.What is the best way to get rid of this?? I kept some pest snails(bladder I guess) to clean this but they are slow. The second problem is happened after my nitrite starts to go down there are number of creatures in my tank. I know one of them are Diatom worms they are on my glass but their number aren’t high and i have no idea why they are on glass not substrate I don’t drop any food in this tank any ideas?? I know the second guest as well and I just noticed them today. I spotted several hydras sticking themselves to my pogostemon how can i get rid of these guys I only knew that gourami like to eat them but i have no mind to add one. The third one is something that I don’t know and im suspected that hydras are using them as food they are very small so I cannot take their pictures their color is white and they are roundish and can see they have very tiny legs/antennae too they are swimming /walking on my glass like insect but i can see them on my wood and floating in the water any ideas about them??
Im very sorry that i made this long but I wanted too explain everything