fish-rookie
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Hi guys, I wonder if you can help?
I have 3 or 4 tanks in my shed that are all linked together along with a sump tank. Usual thing: Small pump from sump to first (biggest tank), gravity feed to next tank and so on until the water is gravity fed back into sump tank. The way they gravity feed is flexi tube from one tank to next which means I can easily add or remove another tank and just increase/decrease the water in the system. All works fine etc, but lately I've taken a lot of the plants out as the various fish get bigger and plants die off etc. I like the look of the tanks without many plants and don't want to restock them heavily but I am now experiencing the inevitable algae infestation.
My question is this: Would it work if I inserted another tank into the system that was out of sight but with adequate lighting etc and filled it with fast growing plants and suitable substrate/nutrients? Will that stop the algae in ALL the tanks?
Strange one I know but if anyone has any ideas?
FR
I have 3 or 4 tanks in my shed that are all linked together along with a sump tank. Usual thing: Small pump from sump to first (biggest tank), gravity feed to next tank and so on until the water is gravity fed back into sump tank. The way they gravity feed is flexi tube from one tank to next which means I can easily add or remove another tank and just increase/decrease the water in the system. All works fine etc, but lately I've taken a lot of the plants out as the various fish get bigger and plants die off etc. I like the look of the tanks without many plants and don't want to restock them heavily but I am now experiencing the inevitable algae infestation.
My question is this: Would it work if I inserted another tank into the system that was out of sight but with adequate lighting etc and filled it with fast growing plants and suitable substrate/nutrients? Will that stop the algae in ALL the tanks?
Strange one I know but if anyone has any ideas?
FR