Subtletanks91 Posted July 28, 2014 Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 My shrimp tank has had this for months now and I've been manually removing it everyday. Exhausting to say the least. But over the last few days looking in there it's gone. Utterly and completely gone. None anywhere I have no changed anything. Feeding my usual schedule. A drop or two of ferts every few days. Lights on and off in 9am and before I go to work 4pm. Top offs, water changes daily and bi weekly. Fans always running. So why did it just vanish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted July 28, 2014 Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 perhaps the plants have grown large enough to take up the extra nutrients in the water? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtletanks91 Posted July 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 That's the funny thing. Every thing grows super slow. Only the mini fissidens and mini pellia are fast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chibikaie Posted July 28, 2014 Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 Well, you don't need kudzu type growth, just "faster than the algae", so perhaps everything hit a balance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtletanks91 Posted July 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 Ita possible. I'm just glad its freakig gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikeyp85 Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 Very fortunate. I had to gut a tank and suck up an entire layer of gravel to get rid of it. I'm 99% sure it began about 2 weeks after I pulled up an entire foreground of hc. Ammonia spike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtletanks91 Posted July 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 That's why I re did the tank to begin with last September. To rid the tank of it. And it returned idk what happened his time. It may just be the plants finally establishing thwmselves Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
countryboy12484 Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 You finally cramed enough buce and moss in to out compete lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtletanks91 Posted July 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 And more to come! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtletanks91 Posted August 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2014 I think my tds has alot to do with it.... I just checked it and it was boosted up to 265..... Slacking on my water changes guys no bueno. be doing a waer change tomorrow again. Did one today and dropped it to 210. Do another tomorrow to drop it again. And then another on Monday. Then I'll do one right before I go to Hawaii to drop it to 135 because I know when I leave for a week it'll boost up to 200 for maybe 4 inch evaporate. anyone have Spiro in thwre tank with a tds over 250? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted August 3, 2014 Report Share Posted August 3, 2014 yep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtletanks91 Posted August 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2014 That's right you keep neos, duhhh lol. Then that couldn't be it either, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted August 10, 2014 Report Share Posted August 10, 2014 Nutrient levels got into whack and the plants got established you frequently get algal problems when you start dosing ferts within the first week of planting a tank and then if you are lucky as in your case it subsides once the plants take a hold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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