Fishtanks are such emotional things sometimes -- or maybe I'm an emotional weirdo :]
Most of you know my 36 gallon/have seen it and what not, well it is seriously being taken over by red algae/brush algae/beard algae/life destroying algae that you never ever want in your tank ever. Whatever you want to call it.
I've tried asking around on here and what not. I've tried altering the lighting, the CO2, cleaning more/cleaning less, etc. You name it, I did it. I've removed my powerhead and changed the position of my spraybar to have less aeration since that's a prime culprit for that algae. (My older bamboo shrimp died and so it isn't as vital tao have the positioning of that spraybar where it was, I also haven't seen the smaller one in awhile he may have died too.)
I've also cut off every tip of plant that had any signs of it, scrubbed any driftwood that it was growing on. My water parameters are fine, not changing. My CO2 levels are where they should be. Gaah. I have no idea, but it's so super upsetting, I've put so much time and energy into this tank and cannot stand not knowing how to fix it.
I guess we will see within the next few days/week how it's doing...*sigh*
To top it off (excluding the bamboo shrimp) I've had two shrimp (possibly ghost, maybe one amano) and a cherry die. Not sure if it's the algae or what...nothing else has changed. And my two Crystal Red Shrimp died, the berried one either lost her eggs or did have the babies, no sign yet, but they're both dead. I still have some bee shrimp though.
I'm not having tank success right now
Most of you know my 36 gallon/have seen it and what not, well it is seriously being taken over by red algae/brush algae/beard algae/life destroying algae that you never ever want in your tank ever. Whatever you want to call it.
I've tried asking around on here and what not. I've tried altering the lighting, the CO2, cleaning more/cleaning less, etc. You name it, I did it. I've removed my powerhead and changed the position of my spraybar to have less aeration since that's a prime culprit for that algae. (My older bamboo shrimp died and so it isn't as vital tao have the positioning of that spraybar where it was, I also haven't seen the smaller one in awhile he may have died too.)
I've also cut off every tip of plant that had any signs of it, scrubbed any driftwood that it was growing on. My water parameters are fine, not changing. My CO2 levels are where they should be. Gaah. I have no idea, but it's so super upsetting, I've put so much time and energy into this tank and cannot stand not knowing how to fix it.
I guess we will see within the next few days/week how it's doing...*sigh*
To top it off (excluding the bamboo shrimp) I've had two shrimp (possibly ghost, maybe one amano) and a cherry die. Not sure if it's the algae or what...nothing else has changed. And my two Crystal Red Shrimp died, the berried one either lost her eggs or did have the babies, no sign yet, but they're both dead. I still have some bee shrimp though.
I'm not having tank success right now
