My Planted Community Tank

[badis56]

runescape is really dumb and i never play it. nobody will answer my question


please somebody answer my question about the algae and tell me why it wont stop!!

 

[IovaykInD]

Do you have a picture of the entire tank? It would be good if we could see exactly how heavily planted your tank is. If your nitrates are really 0, which I doubt, then you will need to dose nitrates to the tank to help the plants grow, and in turn defeat the algae. Did you test for phosphates?

 

[badis56]

i dont test for phosphates and i do have a full tank shot but i cant load it for some weird reason. the gourami died he was old anyway... i have been stopping the dosing of the plant fertilizer and the algae has been slowin down but it is still comin. Maybe i should get rid of some fish?i have about 10 now(4 neons added ) they are mostly all small fish under 1 inch . only 4 are above 1 inch

 

[IovaykInD]

Load it like you did with the rams. The reason I asked is because if you have too much phosphates without enough plants, then it will cause algae.

 

[badis56]

The algae is starting to slow down a lot. I am setting up a 10g quarantine/breeder tank i have no fish to quarantine right now so i am goin to try to breed a gourami and maybe buy some more of those shrimp and try to get them to reproduce(cherry fire shrimp)

 

[badis56]

Is anyone going to reply?

 

[badis56]

i cant get it to load it says "Upload failed. You are not permitted to upload a file with that file extension."

 

[shrimply]

Open an account with http/www.photobucket.com and copy the IMJ link to upload photos. It is much easier.

 

[badis56]

Nevermind about that algae problem thing, i got it under control. my shrimp molted yesterday the molt was really weird lookin. im going to sell 1 dwarf gourami and the rainbow and maybe get some more neons. if i could get any other tetra (if i sold the neons)what would it be. Any suggestions anyone?

 

[TammyLiz]

Any tetra? Years ago I had penguin tetras and really liked them. They stay near the top.

 

[Ivan Sloshed]

hi it might be best to buy black mollies or sailfin mollies they eat algae and might stop in coming back Ivor