Hi, i ncreased my po4 , still problem with algae as in my third pic, plants still growing and i have to trim evrey two weeks

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can anyone recomend a good carpet plants?

I really cannot see it.

Have a better photo?

Regards,
Tom Barr

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here is more pics,
thanks

Those are diatoms. A few water changes, otto cats ought to take care of it.

Regards,
Tom Barr

thanks, what is otto cats ? how many should i get? i have one flyfox only. thanks

"Otto cats" are Otocinclus, a small catfish type that eats some algae, and grazes on the algae on plant leaves. I used 3 in my 29 gallon tank, when I had it, but I actually added 6 to the tank and only 3 survived. I still have the 3, now in my 45 gallon tank, and they continue to graze on the plant leaves for algae. This is one of the types of fish, like cardinal tetra, that are very often in poor health when you buy them, or, in any case, they can be hard to keep alive unless you do a very good job acclimating them when you add them.

HI
i think my tank going to die, i tried to plant the Elodea many time with no luck, it will grow but the root and the lower stem will rote, they become soft , the root will grow above,
today i found out my red plant (i dont know the name of it, pics below) doing the same , tons of roots at the upper parts but the lowe stem die.
could that be bc ligt not reaching the lower part or is it water chemestry.
am using EI, i use kno3, po4, k2so4, plantex,I also use flourish, excel.
help
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Hi,

You seem to be doing just about everything right.

In many of the pictures the plants look pretty good. Some have a little algae on them, but not a lot.

The tank does look somewhat dark in the lower areas, though. You suggested that maybe not enough light was coming through the plants. Maybe open things up a bit by reducing the plant cover? How many and what kinds of plants do you have?

You do have a lot of light. As was suggested, consider lowering it to around 3 WPG. Also, how old are the bulbs?

Have you been adding any chemicals besides the plant nutrients?

Has anything out of the ordinary been going on with your water?

Don't give up.

Bill

Sometimes a tank can have so much plant life in it that water circulation suffers. That causes the concentration of ferts to be different at different areas of the tank, and just isn't good for the plants. So, maybe as Bill suggested, you could try thinning out the plantings a little. My tank never does very well once it gets overgrown with plants. That is when algae tends to attack, in my experience.