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Date: 20 Apr 2004 01:08:31
From: Lopaka
Subject: uh, *gulp* I only wanted aquarium advice, woo..yikes! Wrong place?
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Ok, so how do you do this? Stats first? OK:
20 gal undergravel filter and a Aqua Clear 150
22 fish and maybe snails as the 2 clowns just
love to dig a hole, rock by rock to eat something?
Really nice bright salmon colored ones, and their
fins are brillant and the black is dark black.
mm, lets see, if 1" per gallon, I am over stocked to
25" (?) ok, wait I must need a breakdown,
11 neons'
3 heaDLIGHTS, oops
3 black skirt tetras'
2 albino catfish (who insist onlaying eggs)
1 1"opihi pleco (i love its dancing algae feasting)
1 4" clown & 1 3" clown
Yikes! my question only was this is a 3 yr old tank and
I added some fert for my plants and am plaqued with the
hairy algae! Hints please? I have this Algae killer but its
old and doesn't seem to help
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Date: 20 Apr 2004 09:40:31
From: Toni
Subject: Re: uh, *gulp* I only wanted aquarium advice, woo..yikes! Wrong place?
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"Lopaka" <lo@hawaiian.net > wrote in message
news:jK_gc.10147$Zi3.6857@twister.socal.rr.com...
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> Yikes! my question only was this is a 3 yr old tank and
> I added some fert for my plants and am plaqued with the
> hairy algae! Hints please? I have this Algae killer but its
> old and doesn't seem to help
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>
Do you have enough fast growing plants to out compete the algae?
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Toni
http://www.cearbhaill.com/discus.htm
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Date: 21 Apr 2004 05:10:30
From: Dick
Subject: Re: uh, *gulp* I only wanted aquarium advice, woo..yikes! Wrong place?
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:40:31 GMT, "Toni" <Toni@nada.noway > wrote:
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>"Lopaka" <lo@hawaiian.net> wrote in message
>news:jK_gc.10147$Zi3.6857@twister.socal.rr.com...
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>> Yikes! my question only was this is a 3 yr old tank and
>> I added some fert for my plants and am plaqued with the
>> hairy algae! Hints please? I have this Algae killer but its
>> old and doesn't seem to help
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>Do you have enough fast growing plants to out compete the algae?
How about light? Is your tank near a window and getting too much
light? How many hours a day do you have the lights on? How many
watts per gallon?
Hairy algae can be a real bugger. My 75 gallon had a bad case. I
replaced every plant that had any on it and removed gravel that it was
growing on. I only bought low light plants as I then found my lights
"watts per gallon" was less than 2 wpg.
I filled the bottom of the tank with the new low light plants, cut my
hours per day of lighting to 12 hours per day.
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