Re: Green dust algae and herbivores
Thanks for your response, here are my comments:
The problem I see is that your "degassed" water has about 20 ppm of CO2, using Chuck Gadd's calculator
Yeap, you are right. 24 hours later I measure 7.4 PH in the degassed sample. That gives me 4.7 ppm CO2, which is the usual. Daily PH is 5.7, lowering this shows gasping and shrink losses.
Did you do anything at all in the tank during those time? Could you have dislodged some of the GDA during those times? Did the GDA attacks get any less dense after the first try? One more question: did you have green fuzz algae on the plants during the GDA attacks, and did you do anything about that?
During the maturing process I did nothing but feeding and fertilizing. After cleaning and getting back these algae, I tried some variants, such us limiting Fe, o macros. But the result was the same in the short term.
The GDA attack with the same intensity every time
Yesterday a have cleaned the tanks, I am not following any maturing process. It was a little thinner, but this could not be defined as a tendency yet.
No further algae. Just some BBA in old leaves, but not in new ones.
Regards,
Mariano