My 3ft adventure...

Yes very frustrating. I am slowly adding more plants, but there are not many variations at the local pet shop, so have to wait for the new stock. Got two new ones yesterday and an apple snail and a small ancistrus which will hopefully make a difference. Want to get some shrimp too but they R30 each.
Also going to start dosing ferts again properly. I have most of the seachem range but do i still need to add the excel if i have Co2 running?

 

Nope, excel is also a carbon source, so one or the other. It's very important to have stability in the tank. Dosing should be consistent, as should the CO2 level. Your best fish for algae in my opinion are Siamese algae eaters.

 

I started dosing today as yesterday was water change day. Also bought another plant today so hopefully stocking up on plants may help.These are some pics

 

Excell can help against algae, just by dosing or spot treating.

You do not have that much plants yet so go slow on dosing anything.

Also try the Scape products as the are much cheaper then seachem.

 

This is not my understanding Broder...from what I gather...adding co2 to a system helps plants extract carbon from their surroundings...by adding Excel you are feeding the plants carbon directly this means they can then focus that energy on growth instead of processes used to extract carbon. Excel also has trace elements required by plants which are beneficial. So although it is not necessary to do both it is not redundant.

Wish my SAE was a pro algae eater...he just seems to bully my other fish

 

So I was totally losing my cool with the Algae and nothing was helping. So I did a 50% water change. Spot treated most of the Algae with Excel and rearranged my plants somewhat.







So far, so good...

 

Can anyone help me identify my plants and one fish please.

The fish. I think it is a Ancistrus but not sure which type



Then plants.

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2, 3 and 4


5


6


Thanks for any help

 

Hi Deem, your tank is coming along nicely. I recently had a major BBA (black brush algae) outbreak which was due to inconsistent CO2 (co2 fluctuations). If you're using pressurised CO2, keep it as stable as you possibly can. It is a pain in the behind and will usually attach to rocks, wood and slow growing plants such as the anubias.

Fish - not sure, looks like bristlenose ancistrus (can you take a close up?)

Plants:
1 - Limnophila Sessiliflora
2 - Pogostemon Stellatus (?)
3 - unsure, looks like it is an echinodorus or a cryptocoryne
4 - Hygrophila Difformis
5 - Rotala Rotundifolia
6 - Bacopa Monieri (I think)

 

Thanks so much.

Yes agree with most of the plants. Thanks alot for the names

 

Ok so been a few weeks. Got my C02 bubbling away again since last night.

This is the latest pic...

 

Update...

 

Very nice Deem Trim the stems plants and replant the trimmings to help fill out the gaps.

 

Yes, slowly doing that. My solenoid has now decided to pack up so double dosing excel until I can get a new one...

 

Latest Update...

Any suggestions?

 

Yes, it looks awefull.
I'll save you the embarassment and take the whole system of your hands.
I know I'm kind that way...

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Stunning @Deem!!

 

So there has been some growth in my jungle...

 

Love the anubias

 

Did a bit of a trim. Bought a few new plants from my LFS and will see how they grow