as you can see from my previous tank pictures,..starting t o have cyano algae growth on bottom left due to my feeding every other day......I added additional bulb and had those attached to egg crate lid...just washed my ATS ,alot of waste and only growth are these.......will monitor closely as I just added the 2700k; 23 watts ES bulb.....so top (daylight 6500k/ base is 2700k "warm white" if either show better results, I will change the bulb accordingly
so far slimy deposits on screen........will increase photoperiod as well
Hi Keith, that's a really nice tank! Can you post a close up of those Apogon Parvulus? Mind PM me how much you got them and from where? Thanks!
Definitey not enough growth, and surely because of lack of light (one of those bulbs should be focused on just a 10 X 10 section, not 4 sections.) A second bulb will help, but will still be low. Remember that for average filtering, you need 0.5 total watts per gallon, and for high filtering you need 1.0 total watts per gallon. Those screens should be 1" thick at the bottom, every 7 days.
They look surprisingly fresh water like. Like Tetras.
Nice.
are these filaments algae what we are after? they are growing off my return pipes,very near MH lights (250watts),if so will "seed: onto my screens. changed lower bulb to be same 6500k
No you do not want to seed it. Just remove it from the display. Also if you turn off one of the MH, the display algae will die quicker, and the screen will grow faster.
...checked the growth this morning -looking better (think I need to increase photo period to say 18 hours now) the additional bulb did expedite the growth rate.
close up of the growth so far.......I placed a few "bio-balls" behind the nets, to help support and allow air pocket behind the nets
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