Hi, arround a month back, I have started a 4x2x2 tank with 2 150watt MH.
Details are,
Peat+Laterite Base topped with River Sand
2x150watt 8000K HM (Started with 6 Hrs and increased it to 9 hrs per day)
2217 for Filteration
Pressurized CO2 (Started with 3BPS, Drop checker showing me Dark Green Color)
EI Dosing (KNO3, K2SO4, HK2PO4 For Macro. Along with Micro I have started dosing Iron too)
Weekly 70% water change
But suddenly within week the tank is full of Hair Algae. It's brown In color and covered the glosso bed completely.
I assumed, too much of Blue Spectrum along with heavy Iron dosing is one of the reason. So I changed the Bulbs to 4200K and 6500K. Stopped dosing Extra Iron. As the tank is fishless, I am planning to increase the CO2 to 5BPS.
I have excel but didn't dose as I saw HM burns out on Excel Overdose. Will post a picture shortly.
Please help me to remove this menace.
Thanks in advance.
Details are,
Peat+Laterite Base topped with River Sand
2x150watt 8000K HM (Started with 6 Hrs and increased it to 9 hrs per day)
2217 for Filteration
Pressurized CO2 (Started with 3BPS, Drop checker showing me Dark Green Color)
EI Dosing (KNO3, K2SO4, HK2PO4 For Macro. Along with Micro I have started dosing Iron too)
Weekly 70% water change
But suddenly within week the tank is full of Hair Algae. It's brown In color and covered the glosso bed completely.
I assumed, too much of Blue Spectrum along with heavy Iron dosing is one of the reason. So I changed the Bulbs to 4200K and 6500K. Stopped dosing Extra Iron. As the tank is fishless, I am planning to increase the CO2 to 5BPS.
I have excel but didn't dose as I saw HM burns out on Excel Overdose. Will post a picture shortly.
Please help me to remove this menace.
Thanks in advance.