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Fish Crazy
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Hi All,
I feel like an alcoholic who has finally admitted their problem, in that I've had a brown algae issue for some time now and am finally admitting I need help.
I know how it began, in that my maintenance of my 125 litre tank slipped. I'd wait until the green algae on the glass became ugly, then I'd do a 50% water change and clean everything up. The filter was hardly touched in a year, (aquamanta ex200). The plants were slowly taken over by the algae to the point where I'd remove many of the leaves when changing the water, and now my wood and rock feature cannot be seen due the the brown algae.
The fish are healthy enough though, still have most of my 2 year old neons and all of my harlequins, and the Panda Cory's even had baby's! Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate have always been good. Lots of plants in there but I haven't been adding ferts recently.
Recently been reading up on the issue and have already started more regular maintenance, including the filter, (which was in an appalling state when I opened it recently). Lights are on about 7 hours a day.
First thing I want to do is get better flow around the plants, so my first question is which power head would you recommend for a 125 litre tank? I recently visited the LFS but they didn't have any stock of the small ones, so am happy to use ebay, but which one?
I feel like an alcoholic who has finally admitted their problem, in that I've had a brown algae issue for some time now and am finally admitting I need help.
I know how it began, in that my maintenance of my 125 litre tank slipped. I'd wait until the green algae on the glass became ugly, then I'd do a 50% water change and clean everything up. The filter was hardly touched in a year, (aquamanta ex200). The plants were slowly taken over by the algae to the point where I'd remove many of the leaves when changing the water, and now my wood and rock feature cannot be seen due the the brown algae.
The fish are healthy enough though, still have most of my 2 year old neons and all of my harlequins, and the Panda Cory's even had baby's! Ammonia, Nitrite and Nitrate have always been good. Lots of plants in there but I haven't been adding ferts recently.
Recently been reading up on the issue and have already started more regular maintenance, including the filter, (which was in an appalling state when I opened it recently). Lights are on about 7 hours a day.
First thing I want to do is get better flow around the plants, so my first question is which power head would you recommend for a 125 litre tank? I recently visited the LFS but they didn't have any stock of the small ones, so am happy to use ebay, but which one?
