watertown28
Fish Crazy
I had that great brown diatoms (sp?)outbreak in a few of my tanks. I have been trying my hardest to get it under control. So I went and got a tub of Phosphate remover that I have been using.
Okay so I finally got a bunch of real plants. Wisteria, swords, java and a few others that I cant recall of the top of my head, planted in 2 tanks.
Converted to sand also FINALLY! Much easier to clean than I thought, but the main purpose was mainly for the plants, which things did okay in the gravel, but I like corys and loachs, and of course you really need sand for them anyways.
From my understanding plants need the PO4 too right? I think there are the organics and the inorganics... that I am not sure about, and if that is the case, does the remover take them both out?
I have tried plants before and still have huge algae outbreaks .... from the diatoms to the brown hair stuff. It eventually takes over the plant leaves and there I sit with dead and dying plants, and makes the work much more due to cleaning not only the algae but trying to clean the leaves too.
My lights are 4x CFLs, 1 foot off the top of the tanks....typical 75 gallon tanks for height. The CFLs are 2x 100 watt and 2 x 75 watt, daylight... 6500K.
Before when I was having issues with algae also, I was using just 2x T8 40w daylights 6500K, and also had gravel.
Okay so I finally got a bunch of real plants. Wisteria, swords, java and a few others that I cant recall of the top of my head, planted in 2 tanks.
Converted to sand also FINALLY! Much easier to clean than I thought, but the main purpose was mainly for the plants, which things did okay in the gravel, but I like corys and loachs, and of course you really need sand for them anyways.
From my understanding plants need the PO4 too right? I think there are the organics and the inorganics... that I am not sure about, and if that is the case, does the remover take them both out?
I have tried plants before and still have huge algae outbreaks .... from the diatoms to the brown hair stuff. It eventually takes over the plant leaves and there I sit with dead and dying plants, and makes the work much more due to cleaning not only the algae but trying to clean the leaves too.
My lights are 4x CFLs, 1 foot off the top of the tanks....typical 75 gallon tanks for height. The CFLs are 2x 100 watt and 2 x 75 watt, daylight... 6500K.
Before when I was having issues with algae also, I was using just 2x T8 40w daylights 6500K, and also had gravel.