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Munroco said:New tank set up readings for ammonia. no2 and no3 all look like zero to me. Is this normal for nitrates? and if there are no nitrates whats the damned algae feeding on?
I'm looking into getting some Siamese algae eaters if I can source them.
I wondered about that...Gruntle said:Just a quick response, it's not the glass tubes you bang on the table, it's the plastic bottle of reagent for nitrate (bottle #2 if memory serves).
You've probably worked that out by now, but I'd hate to think of you shattering glass everywhere.
Munroco said:It is a 48" tank, I'm planning to get 6 of them if I can find any and hopefully if I can get new plants to grow and outdo the algae I'll move them to my 55gal.
At the moment the algae is growing on the plants which is annoying. Anything else I can do till new plants get established? I thought about shading the tank with water lettuce. Im running a sponge filter though and this would seriously hamper the water movement.
Looking at various different algaes its possibly cyno bacteria