All right, another week and it's still growing. Water parameters are still great. I already had to clean it a little around the outflow holes for the water because they were covered by the green...
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All right, another week and it's still growing. Water parameters are still great. I already had to clean it a little around the outflow holes for the water because they were covered by the green...
There was some. But it seems to have taken off lately, instead of dying off. I know nutrients are being sucked out because there is some java moss on a rock that is definitely suffering since the UAS...
Nitrates are still barely readable, although there seems to be a lot of spots of black algae growing on the shells in the tank. It looks dark green and thick. What do you think?
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Algae growth is dark green and has thickened up in the holes of the screen. I bumped the time up to 18 on, 6 off. Nitrates are still in the 10ppm range. There are still no long strings or filaments...
Nitrates in the tank are below 20ppm, so I took the plunge today and removed the internal power filter. The HOG .5 is my only filtration now. I did put a powerhead in the tank just for some water...
Here are pics of my HOG 0.5 after 2 weeks and 2 days. The green appears to be pretty even across the screen, although there are no strings or filaments yet. It's in my 15 gallon FW tank containing...
For what it's worth, I recently opened a new 300-gram jar of NLS 1mm pellets and started scooping them out 1 level teaspoon at a time into a bowl. I ended up with 112 teaspoons, which equals about...