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POSTED BY: LadyHobbs on 08/06/2008 10:39:10 [ QUOTE ]


I tore all the plants out of my 55 gallon last night.  I have had a battle with diatoms for over a year and it won.  Unlike Hillary, I know when to quit!

I have a 20 and a 29 gallon, both planted, with lights just barely 1 watt and no CO2 and never had diatoms.

This 55 has been a problem forever.  I use phosphate removers, CO2, over 2 watts per gallon and have a diatom factory.

Makes no sense to me at all. 

I've decided to fill the 55 with wood and java fern and moss, throw a bunch of ugly hornwort in the tank and maybe some anubius and call it done.  It's just getting too expensive to keep buying new plants and trying to keep this tank looking decent.

I clean leaves more than I clean house!




POSTED BY: LadyHobbs on 08/10/2008 14:41:20 [ QUOTE ]


I should get a bunch of otto's and just give them all a big spoon and send them off to do their job.  I do have cherry shrimp already in my 20 gallon.

I've used CO2 off and on.  Didn't seem to matter one way or another.  No point in wasting my brain now.  The tank is emptied, except for the fish and a bunch of wood.




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POSTED BY: customdrumfinishes on 08/26/2008 15:22:49 [ QUOTE ]


diatom algae is usually low light, but sometimes high light is the problem. lots of plants usually suck up the nutrients needed for algae to grow.

next time if you have a tank full of brown algae, load it with plants, get ottos. ottos eat brown like crazy.
heres a chart for algae and cures


http://www.rexgrigg.com/Algae1.html




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