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![]() wrote in message ... Gill It doesn't sound like Nitrates are the problem. At 3 to 4 months old (which is still relatively young) I wouldn't worry TOO much, it may be a passing fad. But do check the phosphates and also keep the feeding to a minimum. In a crisis period like this, I reduce the feeding to every other day, or twice a week (I know the fish are begging for the food but you have to remember that relative starvation is normal in the wild!) - keep the feeding small and only use quality feeds that are nitrate and phosphate free.. Again, I'm sorry if I missed the earlier posts, but with a heavily planted tank, you can probably get away with 9 or 10 hours of lighting but in theory, the higher plants should out compete the algae if they are able to. If you have CO2 and feed with a nitrate/phosphate free feed, this shouldn't be a problem. I hope it helps Mark Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com Hi Mark, Thanks for your post....nitrites and ammonia are 0, I'm not too much worried about the nitrates as this is not a planted tank....and they are still relatively low. No CO2 unit. The food that I use as their staple does contain Phosphates so I think trying to find a phosphate test or remover is a good idea. One thing I did see today when I did my bi-weekly algae fight is that if I loosen the algae enough the Mbunas will eat it. So I'm thinking doing this and then skipping a feed and letting nature take it's course. Gill |
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Sounds like a good plan!
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![]() wrote in message ... Sounds like a good plan! Mark Phosphates are 0.1 so nothing to write home about. So I think it's manual clean up time and let the Mbunas do the rest Gill |
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![]() "Alan Silver" wrote in message ... snip I'm wondering if there has been something added to the water recently....where are you based? I'm in Reading.... I'm in Manchester, so we're on different water supplies. I don't think our water has changed, I've had problems with this sort of algae ever since I started keeping fish. I think my problem is a lot of light and nothing to use it up. I don't have any plants in there as the Malawis would probably look on them as salad, so the algae has free run on any nutrients. Thanks for the reply -- Alan Silver (anything added below this line is nothing to do with me) Hi Alan, How's the algae fight going? I checked for phosphates today which came out at 0.25 so not much to go on there. I noticed if I loosen the algae myself the fish will then eat it....obviously too lazy to scrape at it themselves but appreciative if I do all the hard work. Gill |
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![]() "Gill Passman" gillspamattaylorpassmanspam.co.uk wrote in message .. . wrote in message ... Sounds like a good plan! Mark Phosphates are 0.1 so nothing to write home about. So I think it's manual clean up time and let the Mbunas do the rest Gill Woops - meant 0.25 |
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Hi Alan,
How's the algae fight going? I checked for phosphates today which came out at 0.25 so not much to go on there. I guess I should point out that I'm not really fighting algae, I just had a greenish tinge to my tank. I've fought algae before and it's awful. This is nothing like that. Anyway, I tried swapping the halogen lights for energy saving bulbs, which are basically little fluorescent tubes, but it didn't make any difference. The slight green fur on the glass came back just as fast as with the halogens. -- Alan Silver (anything added below this line is nothing to do with me) |
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