Please help: New Dirt Tank something growing on top of substrate

[alexbn024]

Ok, here are few images

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For now, I did not notice any new growth of algae, everything looks clean. CO2 still seems to be problematic so i decided to add half of the Excel dose along with light CO2 injection. Back to the plants, most of the damage are on two leaves of Aponageton. One of the leaves is old, another is relatively new. Neither of them was grown in the current aquarium, so I guess there could be multiple version why is that happening. MTS picnic? Damage on Anubias is 1)circle-ish in nature, so far at one spot 2) undeveloped young leaves, I think was a consequence of algae, as they were covered with it, maybe something else? There is also something weird with M. Matogrossense, some of the stems are kind of translucent/pale while other are bright green. Not sure what is the cause of that.

[alexbn024]

No more Algae - Case Closed!

After a two weeks battle with Audouinella I finally do not see any traces of it in the tank. I tried to verify that the system is stable by adding few plants, that I isolated few days ago that still had quite a bit of Audouinella on them. I added them before lights went off, and next evening I did not see any traces of algae on them.

Onward to learn more! And, most importantly, Big Thanks to Biollante for the help!

[alexbn024]

I think its been about two month since I started this tank and I think an update is in order! Everything is growing well, big thanks to Tom for new plants! I guess at some point I will start reading about O2/CO2 balance and the way how to better dissolve CO2 with limited resources But for now, I like it as it is

20G planted tank

Alex