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Originally Posted by sophos9
Thanks for your reply... The fish do hate me! I've been running 6.4PH with 6KH - had some loses, drop checker has shown light green
The reason for asking about algae is I have an algae problem of which I'm trying to find root cause, surely the amount of carbon produced, if not being utilised by the biomass would give algae an essential ingredient? I have a 1.5wpg...
Many thanks
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make sure you have a good surface movement, i cant stress how important that is, and make sure your not adding co2 at night. those 2 things will mean you can add far more co2 safely during the photoperiod.
how are you dosing your tank? if your limiting your plants by a nutrient they wont grow, and the algae will as they need far less of the same things.
read the threads on the estimative index, and follow it as close as you can, and all your algae issues will likely go away. Its not going to be co2 thats causing it, its going to be a nutrient problem somewhere.