My 65g tank got way, way overgrown over the last three weeks because I have been overly busy at work preparing to go on vacation. I would say 3x the plant mass I would normally keep (given the pail full of plants I discarded last night).
I usually prune every week (since I started using CO2 6mo ago).
This tank had bothered me the last week because I was seeing algae that I had not seen before (types and quantity). Nothing else changed -- just the plant mass. It was so much of a jungle that the fish were not swimming around much (I did not realize that until I cleaned it out and watched them this morning).
I won't let that happen again, but just wondered if this could be part of my recent algae problem -- perhaps water motion was being blocked to some extent, I don't know.
I usually prune every week (since I started using CO2 6mo ago).
This tank had bothered me the last week because I was seeing algae that I had not seen before (types and quantity). Nothing else changed -- just the plant mass. It was so much of a jungle that the fish were not swimming around much (I did not realize that until I cleaned it out and watched them this morning).
I won't let that happen again, but just wondered if this could be part of my recent algae problem -- perhaps water motion was being blocked to some extent, I don't know.